Open Call – Pennant Place

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Thriving, Abundant, Joyful Presents and Futures

Pennant Place

www.pennantplace.art

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Submissions due May 20th

Exhibition ~August/September 2024

Theme

Pennant Place is looking for Video Art (in any form) that deals with thriving, prosperous, abundant, joyful, and resilient presents and futures.

What is the difference between surviving and thriving? What are some of the tools, technologies, and systems that can get you/us from enduring to flourishing? What are possibilities within neurodivergence and disability for knowing more ways of abundant, joy-filled life? How can we build resilience into communities and individuals to tackle whatever political realities and climate catastrophes yet to come?

Survivance is a concept articulated by Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor 1 that goes beyond mere survival into actively creating thriving communities that are also integral to the world outside of their communities 2–4. Vizenor says survivance “[…]is an active sense of presence over absence, deracination, and oblivion; survivance is the continuance of stories…” 5. It is active survival, pushing away victimhood and pushing towards a thriving future without passing the trauma of colonialism onto future generations. Not forgetting it, but teaching history without the trauma continuing 6.

Solarpunk is one tool for working on many of the questions posed here. It looks for possibilities that are both global and local, solutions small and big, and everything in between; one magic fix to create a better world is antithetical to Solarpunk. Instead, it conceives and enacts a million solutions to these problems7, the right tool for the right situation.

Eligibility

Open to all artists, curators, and collectives worldwide.
For the ongoing exhibition, the video must be suitable for all ages as it will be projected outside on a public street (no nudity, graphic violence, etc).
- However, please submit anything, as we will potentially have a screening night not in public view where we can show any work.
There are no length restrictions, however, works longer than 10 minutes may not be exhibited every night of the exhibition.
There will be sound with the video, but it will not be very loud during the ongoing exhibition (again, public street in a residential area).
Existing work and proposals are accepted.
All genres are accepted.

How to Submit Your Work

Proposals should be submitted as one PDF and include the following:

Screenshots of the work (if the work is to be made, then example of existing work as well as sketches of proposed work)
Somewhere to view the work online
- If sending from your website, please send the direct link to video
- Youtube/Vimeo, etc is fine, unlisted or private is fine if you send the password if needed
- Wetransfer and other services also work but make sure the download window is not too short.
Written statement about the work** (~200-400 words)
Artist(s) Bio** (~200-500 words each)
Social Media Handles (if applicable)
Contact Information
Optional CV/Artist Resume

**Please submit in English, but Google-translated statements are fine. We are interested in ideas and works, not English skills. If accepted, we will post your texts in your native language as well as an English translation, which we can help edit if needed.

Email submissions and any questions to:

flags+thriving@pennantplace.art

There are no submission or participation fees, but no artist fee or compensation is available. The work will be displayed in a quiet residential neighborhood, so there is no way to prevent anyone from posting to social media, etc.

Artwork sales are permitted, with 80% going to the artists and 20% to the gallery. Any after-show sales or sales derived from the show of other artwork go 100% to the artist. A digital donation jar is posted (Venmo/Cashapp), and any money is split 50/50 with artists and Pennant Place (this is not very much, though).

Review and Selection

Artists will be selected by mid-June. By submitting your work, you agree that images, videos, and/or text of your accepted work can be used for promotional purposes, but you retain the original copyright.

Access Riders

To assist our exhibition and working relationship, I am open to receiving access riders. An access rider can include needs, wants, limits, and boundaries. An access rider is a document that can work as a starting point for a conversation between us about the accessibility of a certain situation. While usually used for disabled and/or neurodivergent, they are useful for anyone to facilitate a proper relationship and ensure boundaries and limits are respected. If you have no previous experience with access riders/access documents, I can help you with templates or other resources.

I can make this call available in other formats, such as spoken, if needed, just ask.

My main goal is to lower barriers to access to submission and exhibition, so please contact me with any concerns, questions, or needs!

Details of PhD

This exhibition is to be part of Flounder’s PhD Project, and a separate information sheet and consent form will be sent to accepted participants. No personal data will be used from non-participants. An agreement as to this will follow if accepted. Please send any questions regarding this well in advance of the posted submission deadline.

What is my PhD project about?

My practice-research PhD project examines the overlap, differences, and intricacies between a wide range of current contemporary art practices that deal with mundane futures. I define mundane futures as ones dealing with the ordinary, everyday, between extremes of utopia and dystopia, but not necessarily boring, in other words one that most of us will most likely experience. Through developing an intertwined art and curatorial practice, I plan to investigate these looks at everyday futures that are more just and more sustainable. I’m interested in how art practices can imagine and forge these possibilities. Within these potential futures, I’m focusing on two core subthemes: technology and survivance. While trying to find my place in helping co-create realities that are more just, I will work at finding ways of using practice to become an accomplice (more involved than an ally) in the struggle against injustice and oppression.

My work is about putting artists and artworks focused on mundane futures into conversation with one another. It is the outcome of a process of curatorial methods that I am developing called the Mycelial Model of Curating. This is based on building relationships and curatorial activism. The 4 Rs of Indigenous curatorial work8,9 form the basis for my mycelial model—Respect, Reciprocity, Responsibility, and Relationships. Care is baked into all my actions; it forms part of each of the Rs. I respect the cultures, protocols, feedback, advice, and work of all the others before me, working presently and who come after me. The Mycelial Model’s goal is to connect and support artists, curators, and other creatives in the way that mycelial networks connect and support their companion plants and each other. Ethical, curatorial activism, as defined by Dr. Maura Reilly10, is the path I plan to follow for the curatorial portions of my practice-research project. Reilly asks in what way curators can contribute to the work of making the art world more inclusive.

References (yes, in an open call!)

Solo Exhibition Proposals Open Call for Entries

Eligibility

Open to all artists, curators, and collectives worldwide except current undergraduate students.

Individuals who identify as part of a historically marginalized group are encouraged to submit.

Theme

Seeking exhibition proposals from solo artists, collectives, and curators for a new outdoor space, Pennant Place, located in Gainesville, Florida. Work must be able to be hung on a cable about 13 feet (4m) off the ground and must be able to withstand the elements (wind, rain, sunshine, squirrels). Flags, Banners, Clothing, Streamers, Pennants, and Windchimes come to mind, but feel free to surprise us! Total exhibition weight shouldn’t exceed 20 pounds (9kg). There is about 30 feet (9m) of cable space for hanging work.

How to Submit Your Work

Proposals should be submitted as one PDF and include the following:

Image of the proposed work (if the work is to be made, then example work)
Captions
Written proposal (~350-600 words)
Artist(s)/Curator(s) Bio (~200-500 words each)
CV(s) (up to 6 pages)
Social Media Handles
Contact Information

All submissions are currently reviewed on a rolling basis. Email submissions and any questions to:

flags (at sign) pennantplace (D0t) art

There are no submission or participation fees, but no artists fees or compensation is available. Shipping will likely be paid one direction by the artist and one direction by the gallery, but do not let shipping keep you from submitting, we can try and work on a plan if that is the limiting factor. Work will be outdoors and hung 13 feet off the ground (at the top) in a quiet residential neighborhood but damage is possible and the space has no insurance and is not liable for any damage to work. Work will be insured during shipping.

Artwork sales are permitted with 80% going to the artists and 20% to the gallery. Any after show sales or sales derived from the show of other artwork goes 100% to the artist.

Review and Selection

Artists will be contacted on a rolling basis as well. By submitting your work, you agree that images, videos, and/or text of your accepted work can be used for promotional purposes, but you retain the original copyright.

Access Riders

To assist our exhibition and working relationship, I am open to receiving access riders. An access rider can include needs, wants, limits, and boundaries. An access rider is a document that can work as a starting point for a conversation between us about the accessibility of a certain situation. While usually used for disabled artists, they are useful for anyone to facilitate a proper relationship and ensure boundaries and limits are respected. If you have no previous experience with access riders/access documents, I can help you with templates or other resources.

I can make this call available in other formats, if needed, please just ask.

The main point for me is to lower barriers to access to submission and exhibition, so please contact me with any concerns, questions, or needs!