pARTage INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP 2014

This year pARTage will be celebrating its 10 years of activity. Our first international workshop took place  in 2004. It would be impossible to imagine the local art scene without pARTage. So much has changed and so much is still to be done. we would like to use this 10 years celebration not to look back with nostalgia but to look forward with enthusiasm. An international workshop based on the Triangle model seems to be the best approach to celebrate these 10 years. It will be a truly multicultural encounter with the opportunity to investigate new challenges that affects both art and society today.
Theme: ARTchipelago The art-world has always been divided into the centre and the periphery, where the centre always dominates. Throughout History this torque center/periphery, colonizer/colonized , the dominant and the dominated has been operating and is still operative in international relations.
The concept of "Archipelago" just breaks this dualistic view of the world. An Archipelago is a group of islands relatively close to each other. This concept is used in geography to refer to a specific mode of appropriation of space between individual elements having important and crucial ties. Though each island has its own specificity, both geographical and cultural; together they form a whole. We would like to embrace the concept of archipelago, develop new ties, explore our common interests and make the whole far greater than the sum of its parts.

APPLICATIONS
Applicants must be professional artists and not enrolled in any degree program. Artists working in any medium are accepted.
Curators must only send their contact details and a CV.
Applicants must be 18 years or older. All national and international applicants are welcome. Applications can be made either in English or French.

To Submit:
1. A filled application form.
2. A brief CV
3. Short Artist statement (max 250 words)
3. Examples of your work (5 images Jpeg format, max 500 kb per image), links or 3mins from films and performance for video and performance artists.
4. A picture of your-self (jpeg format, max 500 kb)

Submission only by e- mail to sultana38us@yahoo.com

Deadline: 25th February 2014 

The Jury will be composed of 5 independent art professionals and the decision of the Jury will be final.. 

Selected artists will be informed of the results by email by mid- March. 

DATES: The workshop will take place in Mauritius from 6th to 21st June 2014

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES: The Curator will be responsible to organize talks, the conference, the exhibition and also collect information and do the text for the catalogue.