Open Call for Group Project and Screening Proposals
Proposals
Open Call for Group Project and Screening Proposals
Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca
Sin Cinta Previa and Chuquimarca are looking to give exhibitions, screenings, and programming opportunities for artists and curators that focus on contemporary art, visual knowledge, and moving images through a Native, Caribbean, and Latinx context. This open call is for group projects and screening proposals. This open call is partially funded by the Propeller Fund 2019 grant.
Deadline to submit: Monday, April 13, 2020
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General Information:
Proposals are considered for the June to November 2020 programming of Sin Cinta Previa and/or Chuquimarca. Exhibitions and screenings will take place at Chuquimarca. There is no submission fee. Proposals must work with the Native, Caribbean, and/or Latinx contemporary art and cultural discourse. The reviewers for this open call are Santiago X, Giselle Mira-Diaz, Malia Haines-Stewart, Jose Luis Benavides, and John H. Guevara.
Group Project:
The group project proposals aims to fortify collective conversation and commonality between multiple discourses by offering exhibition and programming opportunities at Chuquimarca. Group project proposals are only open to Chicago-based applicants. A group project proposal is considered to be one proposal with 2-4 applicants. Applicants are considered to be artists, makers, curators, and writers. Projects are considered to be exhibitions, performances, and off-site installations. All art mediums and disciplines are eligible. A maximum of 4 project proposals will be accepted. Each applicant in accepted group project proposals will receive an honorarium of $100 to offset production cost. Including a writer to write an essay on a submitted project is highly encouraged. Including programming (artists talk/workshops/lunch and learn) is also encouraged.
Screenings:
The open call for screening proposals aims to provide time and space for moving image makers to screen work and to connect video production with different visual art disciplines as part of the program series Sin Cinta Previa. This open call is for Chicago based, national, and international artists that work with moving images. Moving image is considered as a broad range of styles including video-art, video for installation, GIFS, net art, new media, experimental film, animation, music videos, experimental broadcast, performative video, cinema verite, and avant-documentary practices. Consideration for traditional film/cinema and narrative shorts will be limited but genre bending and third wall breaking films are encouraged. $100 honorarium will be given to accepted artists. Submissions will be considered for group screenings and/or solo screenings. Video artists who engage with installation, performance, sculpture, photography, fibers and new media are highly encouraged to apply.
Submission Instructions:
Please submit all materials to [email protected] with the subject line “SCP+C Project Proposal 2020”.
Please include the following information with proposal submissions:
For Group Project submissions:
Project’s title and description/curatorial statement
Applicants’ CVs, brief biographies, and/or portfolios
Photos/videos/links best representing the project
For Screenings submissions:
Title of work, year of production, length, brief statement per piece
Applicant’s CV, brief biography, portfolio or website link
Video of any length, any digital format, screener links to video
3 videos maximum per applicant
Additional Information:
Exhibition space’s address: 5000 W. Bloomingdale Ave. Chicago, IL 60639
Wheelchair accessible entrance is available
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.
Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca (SCP+C) – is a Propeller Fund 2019 awarded proposal project. The project proposal was between a video-art series (Sin Cinta Previa) and library project space (Chuquimarca) aiming to create visibility, place and discussion with and for Native, Caribbean and Latinx artists in Chicago.
Blurring the lines between ciné club, reading room and art space, Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca(SCP+C) is a collaboration between a video-art series, project space and growing library creating visibility, place and discussion with and for Native, Caribbean and Latinx artists in Chicago. SCP+C offers and seeks exhibitions, performances and screenings through open calls while also pulling from within its community of Chicago-based artists, cultural workers and thinkers. SCP + C manifests opportunities to bridge our local contemporary art dialogue with artists and audiences nationally and across the Americas. Through our collaborative curatorial effort, SCP+C fights against the constant invisibility and forced cultural amnesia targeted against our diasporas by showcasing and celebrating the work of our peers and contemporaries.
