OPEN CALL 2014

SHADOW CASTERS OPEN CALL FOR THE NEW EDITION OF WALL DISPLAYS

ZA HRVATSKU VERZIJU PRITISNITE OVDJE!

Deadline: March 20th, 2014

Contact: bacaci.sjenki@gmail.com

About the project Wall Displays (WD) ZAGREB PARAFERNALIE:
The Wall Displays project began in 2006 as a window/ communication channel of the invisible parts of the long-term research project “Re-collecting Cities/Re-collecting Time”. The original locations of WD editions were seven wall displays of the ex-cinema venue of Croatian Cinematheque located at the different places in downtown Zagreb. From 2010, Wall Displays have grown into a separate and autonomous project ZAGREB PARAFERNALIE. 
Wall Displays are a visible part of our research and reflection on the city, public and private space, urbanity, co-existence and identity.

TARGETED AUDIENCE OF THE PROJECT:

• Random passers by but also the intentional readers 
• Happy visitors of our weblog – http://zidnenovine.blogspot.com
• Professional community: urban anthropologists, art historians, sociologists, urban narrators, architects and urban planners 
• Archivists of intangible (urban) heritage and spatial/social and architectural heritage

THE NUMBER OF WALL DISPLAYS/LOCATIONS:
Wall Displays boxes are positioned in 8 different location in the public space in the city of Zagreb.

THEMATIC FRAMEWORK

This project is thematically focused on:  the everyday day life events, micro and macro memory narratives linked to the area around the Wall Display boxes and/or WD are metahphorically percevied as "windows" into other spaces, cities and worlds. We are interested in interdiciplinary and/or artistic perspectives and perceptions of the following themes: transformation of the city, issues of the politics of remembrance, political acts and media presence in the public space.

PROJECT METHODOLOGY

Wall Displays are based on the approach to the listed thematic guidelines and they also develop hyper textual models of reading the city, alternative cartography, construction of the place of remembrance and tactics of constructing the collective.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Integral and creative Author concept of the whole Edition of Wall Displays in which each of the eight locations (displays) content is treated separately within the proposed Edition.

TO WHOM THIS CALL IS ADDRESSED: 

This open call is open to everybody, but also to visual and new media artists same as to researchers in Humanities (Ethnology, Sociology, Philosophy, Politology) and to interdisciplinary teams (Wall Display communicate equally through text and image). If the accepted proposition is based on the humanistic approach to the research of the city and candidate does not have background in design, the organizers will enable a collaboration with a designer.

This open call is also open to performance artist and the projects that rethink Wall Displays locations as a space for perfomative actions in the public sphere. In this case – Wall Displays edition could be presentation of documentation of performed actions in the public space and could be produced in collaboration with designer enabled by the organizers.

Application must include:

1. textual explanation of the concept and motivation (up to 1800 characters)

2. proposal sketches in jpg. or pdf.- format

3. CV of artist / author

4. Portfolio (optional)

Application may include:

1. Portfolio of artist / author 
2. Concept of promotion of entire Edition (the proposal of the scenario events ...) 
3. Possible concept of events related to a particular location or a complete edition as space-social intervention within the urban fabric

Required documents should be sent by email until March 20th, 2014 to bacaci.sjenki@ gmail.com and the email should be titled "Shadow Casters open call + surname".
Additional questions could be send to bacaci.sjenki@gmail.com

Wall Displays size: click here. 

The authors of the selected projects will be notified by April 1st 2014. In case some of the selected authors are not based in Zagreb the conversation will be held via Skype.

Members of the jury: Marko Golub, Ana Janjatović, Ivan Klisurić, Sandra Uskoković & Leo Vukelić

The cost of production of selected Wall Displays editions will be covered by Shadow Casters and the selected authors will be awarded with honorarium in the amount of 500€ (gross amount).

Realization plan for the selected edition is arranged individually with the Wall Displays project coordinators.

For authors living outside of Croatia/Zagreb can be organized a preliminary fieldwork research lasting for a week  Organizers will cover accommodation expenses and help author/s to find additional funding. 
For authors living outside of Zagreb, Shadow Casters will cover part of travel expenses as well. During the period of finalization of the project and the promotion of the edition, authors are obliged to be in Zagreb.

Wall Displays project coordinators: 
Shadow Casters Executive Board (Alma Sartori, Barbara Blasin, Boris Bakal, Milan Žerjav and Miran Jurić)

Initial concept of Wall Displays project: Boris Bakal
Editorial board: Boris Bakal, Mare Šuljak and one member of the Jury

Editors, authors and associates of previous Wall Displays editions: Barbara Blasin, Boris Bakal, Maja Blažek, Nikolina Butorac, Nikolas Defteros, Josip Horvat, Ana Janjatović Zorica, Maja Genc Kalogjera, Mihael Giba, Srećko Horvat, Dalibor Kiseljak, Iva Kovač, Maria Kyriakou, Bojan Mucko, Goran Novaković, Neven Petrović, Katarina Pejović, Tea Plepelić, Srećko Pulig, Željko Serdarević, Nives Sertić, Marita Stanić, Mare Šuljak, Vesna Vuković, Vanja Žanko.

Project supported by: Zagreb City Council for Education, Culture and Sport; Ministry for Culture Republic of Croatia