Faraway, So Close | Call for Participants

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The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) of Ljubljana is launching an open call for participation in Faraway, So Close – 25th Biennial of Design curated by editor and curator Angela Rui and MAO curator Maja Vardjan. The open call is dedicated to designers, architects, filmmakers, graphic designers, interaction designers, illustrators, writers, animators, photographers, researchers and other interdisciplinary agents who see the biennial as an experimental, collaborative platform for testing, developing and sharing their own approaches and expertise within the issues and structure of the new biennial format.

As written in the curatorial statement: “New frictions emerge from the cohabitation of remote meanings and contemporary habits as we look for new territories to give meaning to, places to re-inhabit, ancient relations to re-enact, basic coexistences to re-imagine. Can friction between these diverse conditions produce new scenarios for a different present time?”

Selected participants will work with international creatives and local experts within seven teams: Underground Release with Studio Formafantasma and Andrej Detela, Occupying Woods with Matali Crasset and Matej Feguš, After Utopia with Point Supreme and Iztok Kovač, Brand New Coexistence with Didier Faustino and Mojca Kumerdej, Countryside Reloaded with Studio Mischer’Traxler and Klemen Košir, Resilience Of The Past with Studio Folder and Renata Salecl and New Heroes with Odo Fioravanti and Marin Medak. By testing disciplines outside their comfort zone, the teams of Faraway, So Close will present possible scenarios that enquire into global as well as local issues.

From May 25 to October 29, 2017 in Ljubljana, Faraway, So Close will present seven site-specific interventions along with the main exhibition and a catalogue.

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Teams will work between September 2016 and October 2017. If selected, the applicants declare their participation to actively collaborate within their team in the development of ideas and concepts and their presentation at the exhibition. The dynamics and the working process of each group shall be agreed upon between participants, their mentors (so-called profiles, translators) and partners at the kick-off meeting, to be held in September 2016 in Ljubljana.

If selected, the applicants shall undertake to take part in the kick-off meeting, held in September 2016 in Ljubljana.

Biennial applicants shall not be required to pay any entry or other fees in order to be able to take part in the process. The Biennial of Design shall not provide selected applicants with any payment for their participation, nor reimburse travel and accommodation costs. The Biennial of Design shall provide the teams with funds intended to cover productions costs in order for their projects to be realized in an amount to be agreed upon in advance.

Open call deadline: July 10, 2016

More info and subscription in the official website.