2019 Open Call Student Art Exhibition
Timeless | (Text)ure | Displacement | Cycles
Wednesday, September 18th - Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Opening Reception: 4 – 7pm, Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
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Open to All Current UC Berkeley Students
Proposal Deadline : 11:59 pm, Friday, September 6th, 2019
The annual, campus-wide Open Call Student Art Exhibition is conceived of as a way to start critical conversations as much as it is to showcase the talents of our student artists.
This year’s exhibition has four curators, each with a different theme (see below). Applicants are encouraged to consider these prompts very broadly – this is your community and there is a place for your work in this show.
Proposed work can be in any medium, from painting to performance; video to interactive installation; social practice to augmented reality. We are open to including dance, music, theater, writing, interventions… any form that you can imagine sharing in a gallery space!
We aim to include many students in this exhibition, but admission is competitive! Please review materials before submitting. Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered. It's OK if you are still in the process of creating your work - please submit a specific, visually compelling proposal of sketches and/or images of related work, and a clear description of your intentions.
(Text)ture - Curated by Milan Moldenhawer
Each of us has a complex and layered identity. The textures which show up on our surface speak to our unique and individual personal narrative, cultural background, and relationship to history. The materials an artist uses reflect these ongoing internal dialogues. With a focus on unconventional media and tactile, sensory artwork, (Text)ure is an exploration of how materiality allows us to reflect our interior experiences onto an external entity.
Cycles - Curated by Aisha Gracie Moniz de Aragao Faria
Is time linear or cyclical? In what ways do the cycles present in our lives depend on time? From the personal to the global scale, human experience is both mediated through cycles and shaped by recurring patterns. History itself can be thought of as a linked collection of movements and moments which rise and fall, only to repeat at some point in the future. Similarly, all art could be understood with some relationship to recurrence. Whether with video loops, repetitive performance, or objects which embrace or reject the present/past, art is used to confront our realities, and the cycles which have brought them into being.
Displacement - Curated by Michael Ornido
Do you feel DISPLACED? Whether you’re an international student who doesn’t feel at home in American culture, an Art & Humanities major who feels overwhelmed by your peers in STEM, or just feel you don’t have a place in the current political and social climate, you aren’t alone! In this exhibition, art is used as a powerful tool of expression to make a place for your unique identity, relieve feelings of displacement, and manifest the beauty of your unique individual experience.
Timeless - Curated by Yunyi Yang
Time seems to be omnipresent in all art. However in Ways of Seeing (1972) art critic John Berger argues that photographs are not only about the moment caught, but all the moments not being caught. In this exhibition, we address these missing moments, the artworks that exist outside of time, the lost, forgotten, or deliberately suppressed. What could this mean for creatures like us who are defined by time?
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