CALL FOR ARTISTS: Mapping the Body Exhibition

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CALL FOR ARTISTS
EXHIBITION: MAPPING THE BODY

 Curators:
Jorge Sandoval (University of Lethbridge)
Brenda Brandley (Lethbridge College)

The Drama Department at University of Lethbridge in conjunction with Lethbridge College will present an art exhibition titled “MAPPING THE BODY” from March 20 to 31, 2017 at The Penny Gallery and later in December 2018 at CASA in Lethbridge AB. MAPPING THE BODY will focus on contemporary perspectives of the body.

MAPPING THE BODY has the goal for students and alumni from these two institutions to collaborate and explore the body through a variety of mediums, but especially an exploration that looks for artistic ways to immerse in artistic practice and critical thinking about dress and the body; a search to represent and perform the human body.

Curated by University of Lethbridge Fine Arts faculty member, Jorge Sandoval, and Lethbridge College Fashion Design & Sustainable Production faculty member, Brenda Brandley, this exhibition aims to promote and present art work imagined and produced by students, alumni, and faculty from these institutions. This collaboration aims to push the boundaries of students’ technical abilities and to elevate them to artistic heights that will result in art pieces presented in this exhibition.

The art work presented at The Penny Gallery will be composed of submissions done by students and alumni from the University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge College. This exhibition will have an adjudicating committee and the winners will receive an automatic invitation to present their work at CASA in December 2018. Artists from the first exhibition might present their work at CASA also by invitation of the curating team.

A 300 word written proposal must be sent no later than October 1, 2016 to the curating team. The proposal must indicate the proposed artistic element accompanied by a technical sheet with details of whether the work will be an installation piece, involve lighting, sound or multimedia. 

Successful applicants will be notified by the end of November. Workshops and presentations will be done in collaboration with the three institutions between December 2016 and March 2017, to promote and create ideas for the exhibition.

RATIONALE

Digital technologies have brought dramatic shifts and changes in contemporary understanding of the materiality of the body; from the natural, to the cultural, to the technological body, the human body is seen now not as a complete entity, but as an extension of a very specific space: cyberspace. This extension allows us to experience corporeality in a more critical fashion and from a variety of angles through artistic research.

  • From a multidisciplinary perspective, students will explore and reflect upon the interaction of clothing and the body:
  • How can clothing in the ambit of the everyday, inspire us to create objects of beauty?
  • What are clothes? How can clothes define the body? Clothes as objects and wearable art.
  • The relation between the body and clothing as a scenic space.
  • How does culture and the environment affect the body?
  • How do we present, represent, and misrepresent our bodies on social media?  And how do we deconstruct it in order to use it as a new space for dramaturgy?

 

Submit your 300-word written proposal by October 1, 2016 to:

Jorge Sandoval                                                         

Faculty of Fine Arts, Drama Department

University of Lethbridge

jorge.sandoval@uleth.ca                               

 

Brenda Brandley

Fashion Design & Sustainable Production

Lethbridge College

brenda.brandley@lethbridgecollege.ca


Contact:

Faculty of Fine Arts | finearts@uleth.ca