16 Days Of Non Organised Art- call for submissions

aceartinc. is up for anything for 16 days in July.

This is open to artists and non-artists of all levels. We want you to experiment/do same-old, same-old/reinvent the space/go nuts/be subtle/do something interesting. So long as you clean up, don’t damage the space or make it smell awful.

If there are more submissions than slots, we’ll put everyone’s name into our office teapot and ask a special guest to draw lots until all the spaces are filled.

Here’s the deal. Your event/exhibition/activity/whatnot can occur in the daytime OR evening.
Daytime
set up:                   10am-12pm
open to public:    12-4pm
take down:            4-5pm

Evening
set up:                   5-7pm
open to public:    7-9pm
take down:           9-10pm

You will publicise, provide materials, set up and take down your project. aceartinc. We will post details on our website and Facebook page and assist where we can. There will be no payments made  but if you wish to charge for your event, please do.

This event is inspired by the terrific fun we had at aceartinc. with the übersuper events that took place on Alexandre David’s installation ‘Over Here’ last July and by Eryn Foster’s ‘35 Days Of Non Organised Art’ that she programmed at Eyelevel Gallery in May last year. The free, off the cuff happenings these two things engendered spurred us onto providing circumstances for more of this good stuff to occur.

How do I apply?
By post
One page describing  your project.
No resumes.
An engaging cover letter.
Tell us your preferred date and time and two back up dates and times.

DEADLINE- 1st April 2010

Emily Rosamond
1st – 30th June, 2010

At the beginning of the exhibition Night Shift, Emily Rosamond will receive a one-ton truckload of used building supplies, domestic coverings, furniture and clutter, collected around town over the past few months by the local junk removal company Declutter.ca. Working the night shift, Rosamond will transpose the materials into new temporary situations, using them to construct new subjunctive furnitures and temporary architectures. At the end of the show, these will be hauled away again; but before they go, audience members will be invited to take home a piece of the show.

Emily Rosamond is an artist, academic and educator, currently enrolled in the Humanities PhD program at Concordia University. Throughout undergraduate work at York University, an Independent Studio Program at Toronto School of Art and an interdisciplinary MFA at Simon Fraser University, she has developed an installation-based art practice, which draws from sculpture, drawing, writing, performance and video. Emily has taught in Art and Culture Studies and Simon Fraser University, and has presented her work across Canada, and at conferences in the US and UK.

Emily gratefully acknowledges the support of the BC Arts Council.

aceartinc. is committed to supporting queer artists and cultural producers and. has partnered with the Rainbow Resource Centre to create a long-term friendship that will bring queer youth to aceartinc. to see and respond to exhibitions, participate in activities, use the Project Room and all our resources and become and remain members.

aceartinc. has been looking to raise its profile with Winnipeg queer youth in order to invest in future audiences and artists and continue to be relevant to the queer community. Working with the 2009/2010 programmed exhibitions will provide a variety of contexts in which queer youth can work with professional artists to place your identities in different cultural, social and political contexts and explore their creativity in an experimental and safe atmosphere. We want to skill them up to create their own culture and to think critically about the culture we are surrounded by.

The culmination of these special workshops will be an exhibition for Pride 2010 in which all the work the youth have made throughout the year will be shown in the Flux gallery.

There will be four workshops with the four exhibiting artists at aceartinc. Each of these workshops will involve art making and discussion. The artworks made during these workshops will be exhibited in a special exhibition which aceartinc. will host in June 2010 as part of Winnipeg Pride.