AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

OPEN CALL FOR PARTIPANTS: BLINDED TOURIST
Deadline date: January 18, 2010; Source: Peter Baren

Will you be my guest?

I, Mariëlle Videler, am looking for four artists working in different
disciplines to take part in the project BLINDED TOURIST for seven days. I
need artists who have never been to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and who are
able to stay for the entire last week of March 2010. There is one rule: they
cannot leave the installation. During our journey, I will be your host and
will do all I can for you. I will develop a “travel programme” with
vegetarian food, images, stories and movement. We will also be able to meet
the visitors to W139 and our installation during the opening hours of our
venue, W139. During your stay, I want you to create a work, a visual
journal; it could involve drawings, video, performance etc. The journals
will be presented during the final weekend.

Journey
I love travelling and explorers. I want to visit authentic communities, but
I travel from façade to façade: global cities.
The journeys I look for I find in books about discoveries. When I read these
books I travel into an old but unknown culture, I get close to the citizens,
their personal rituals and objects. I love journeys like this, and meeting
you there.
So I came up with the idea of making a physical place of my own that is
waiting to be discovered. I’ve called it ‘BLINDED TOURIST. Gijs Frieling of
the artists space W139 in Amsterdam invited me to develop the project
further. I suggested creating an installation for my journey in the space of
W139 and to invite other artists to travel with me.
If you are curious and like to be on of the four invited artists please send
me your motivation to become part of the project BLINDED TOURIST.

Send before 18 January 2010:
Motivation (max. one A4)
3 Photo’s of your work (size max. 72 dpi or 1024 x 768)
Short description of your work (max one A4)
Link to your website (optional)
How will you travel to Amsterdam NL and what will it cost?

To: info@mariellevideler.nl or marleen@w139.nl
http://www.W139.nl
http://www.mariellevideler.nl

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