Entries are open to artists from the Global South and Portuguese-speaking countries
Entries for the
20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil will open on October 3rd
. Up
until November 17th, 2016, artists from the Global South and from
Portuguese language speaking countries can enter their new or existing
artworks in any language or theme, free of charge. The
20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil will
run from October 2017 to January 2018 at Sesc 24 de Maio, a unit of
Sesc São Paulo designed by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and at
Galpão VB, headquarters of Associação Cultural Videobrasil.
The term Global South refers to a field of research used by human
sciences and arts that relates to cultural, economic, and political
situation of countries and territories on the fringe of mainstream
modernization. Aware of the transient character of this notion,
Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo steer their actions
toward constantly reassessing the statute of this concept.
For this open call, the macro-region at hand will comprise countries in
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (except Japan), Eastern
Europe (including the Balkans), the Middle East, Oceania, and the
Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries – the latter being one of the
new additions of this 20th edition. Apart from Brazil, the CPLP
comprises: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea,
Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor.
The commission will select as many as 50 artists to take part in art
shows, video screenings, performances, meetings with artists, public
program activities, educational actions, and publication launches set to
take place during the Festival, which has cemented its status as the
premier Global South art platform. Shortlisted video artworks will be
incorporated into the
Videobrasil Historical Collection, that comprises works shown in over three decades of Festivals.
In this 20th edition, the featured artists and groups from Brazil and
other countries will compete for two types of prizes. An international
jury of contemporary art professionals will award 03 (three) Acquisition
Awards of BRL 25,000 each to video works that will become part of the
Sesc Brazilian Art Collection.
A jury of delegates of residence institutions which are partners of the
Festival will award 05 (five) Artist Residency Awards, that will take
place throughout 2017. Each award includes airfare, accomodation, and a
per diem.
Free online registration from October 3rd:
www.videobrasil.org.br/opencall
Send through your entry!
Find out more about 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil curators:
Chief curator:
Solange Farkas is curator and director of Associação Cultural
Videobrasil, as well as founder of the Contemporary Art Festival
Sesc_Videobrasil, first held in 1983. She was director and chief curator
of the Bahia Museum of Modern Art from 2007 to 2010. She served as a
guest curator at the 10th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011),
the 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011), the FUSO - Annual Video
Art Festival (Portugal, 2011 and 2013) as well as the exhibitions La
Mirada Discreta: Marcel Odenbach & Robert Cahen (Buenos Aires,
2006); Roteiro Amarrado (CCBB Rio de Janeiro, 2010) and Suspensão e
Fluidez (ARCO, Madrid, 2007), the two latter focussing on the work of
Brazilian artist Eder Santos; and African Contemporary Art Exhibition
(2000), in partnership with Klive Kellner, with artists like William
Kentridge, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Sue Williamson, Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye
and Kendell Geers, and, more recently, Amanhã vai ficar tudo bem, by
Akram Zaatari (São Paulo, 2016) held at Galpão VB.
Guest curators:
Ana Pato is a curator and researcher. A doctoral
student at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the
University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), she was chief curator of the 3rd
Bahia Biennale (2014) and director of projects of Associação Cultural
Videobrasil (2000-2012). She is the author of the book
Literatura Expandida: arquivo e citação na obra de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Expanded Literature: archive and quotation in the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster).
Beatriz Lemos is a curator specialized in arts and
digital networks. Holder of a master's degree in Social History of
Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
(PUC-RJ), she is the coordinator of the publishing house Sismos
Editorial and creator of the online platform Lastro. Since September
2015, she has been a member of Parque Lage Visual Arts School's Visiting
Curator Program.
Diego Matos is a researcher, professor and curator. He
holds a master's and a doctorate degrees from the School of Architecture
and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). He was
assistant curator for the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial (2010) and for the
18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2013). From 2014 to
2016, he coordinated the Archive and Research Team at Associação
Cultural Videobrasil.
João Laia is a writer and curator. He has curated for
institutions like Moderna Museet, in Stockholm; the Chiado National
Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon; Videoex, in Zurich; Delfina
Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery, both in London; and Parque Lage, in
Rio de Janeiro. He contributes with texts and reviews for publications
and vehicles Frieze, Mousse, Flash Art, Terremoto and Público.
