Opportunities: Open Call for Performance Arts Festival AiOP2021: NORMAL (New York) Deadline – December 1st, 2020

Opportunity: Open Call for Performance Arts Festival AiOP2021: NORMAL
Where: New York
When: May 14-26th
Deadline: December 1st, 2020
Online Application: http://www.artinoddplaces.org/call-for-proposals/
Fee to Participate or Apply: $0

Description Of Opportunity:

“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was…”
Sonya Renee Taylor

The Viral and Racial Pandemic confirms that the structures established for collective order in the United States of America failed. Colleges are run like companies and the criminal justice system like corporations. Corporations are bailed out with trillions of tax-payer’s dollars while citizens are made homeless by eviction. At our nation’s border desperate families are separated, and children caged. Hospitals struggle with depleted resources during a global pandemic, and police continue to brutalize black citizens. All this while the U.S. elected President orders the use of clubs and tear gas on peaceful protesters to enable a quick photo shoot with a bible.

Many in the United States of America clearly do not have the inalienable rights promised to them by the Constitution. The ‘Great American Dream’– championed as the right of every citizen– is a sham. Hard work does not guarantee success for all. Racism, classism, xenophobia, islamophobia, and homophobia are deeply rooted in our democracy. The American Normal is a culture steeped in severe inequities and greed.

Art in Odd Places (AiOP): NORMAL, curated by Furusho von Puttkammer, invites proposals for its sixteenth annual public art and performance festival taking place from Avenue C to the Hudson River along 14th st in Manhattan, NY. AiOP welcomes innovative multi and interdisciplinary hybrid projects including installation, sculpture, and performance which can be presented in the public realm. We encourage projects that explore & expose the American Mythos, and that actively engage the public. There is no application fee.

ELITIST. POWER. CORRUPTION. HYPOCRISY. DELUSION. NORMAL.

Open Call, Festival, and Exhibition Timeline:

When preparing your application, please keep in mind this timeline for the festival and exhibition.

July 24th – October 29th 11:59 PM EST: Open Call live

November 15th: Applicants notified of decision

May 14th – May 16th, 2021: AiOP: NORMAL festival along 14th Street, NYC

How To Apply:

Art in Odd Places(AiOP) 2021: NORMAL scheduled for May 14-16, 2021 curated by Furusho von Puttkammer invites proposals for its sixteenth annual public art and performance festival taking place along 14th Street in Manhattan, NY – from Avenue C to the Hudson River.

Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL (ELITIST. POWER. CORRUPTION. HYPOCRISY. DELUSION.) seeks imaginative proposals by artists that actively engage the public in critiquing and dissecting “normalcy”

Visit http://www.artinoddplaces.org/call-for-proposals/ for PDFs of the Open Call and the FAQs. For questions please email [email protected].

Contact Email:[email protected]
Website: http://www.artinoddplaces.org/

These posts are not affiliated with Contemporary Performance Network, but are of interest to our community. We post these with the caveat to check the sources and research the opportunities or views expressed in the posts.