AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Catalytic

Communities/Networks/Participation

We are interested in what is going on in art right now. As
entertainment, critical resistance, or one more commodity fetish, art
can provide an outlet for those of us who dream of revolutions and
utopias. We want to track the diverse ways in which art is currently
being produced with catalysis in mind.

We are looking for projects, proposals, propositions, participatory
actions, performances, behaviors, street acts, acting out art, art
acting out, politicized situations, situations that involve politics,
and anything else considered or not considered under the heading of art.
Art practices that abandon the modernist concept of "pure" art
and the self-sufficient object for something more project-based,
communal and open-ended, like a collective work-in-progress; and artists
who in their production methods open up new conceptions of their
audience as being more directly participatory and collaborative. We
welcome all kinds of relational and social practice artwork, including
proposals for new projects done in response to this call.

In an attempt to be relational in our curating, we intend to look at
each work in the exhibit from its own internal logic and artistic
praxis, and then map possible connections between works and the lines of
flight they open up. Rather than force fit the art into a curatorial
master plan, we hope to dialogue with what emerges through ongoing
exchange between artist, work, and audience. The premise behind our
thinking is that catalysis will not happen with homogeneity, but that
new emergences will spontaneously generate if the dynamics are made
sufficiently complex and multiple. We welcome work that is already in
your repertoire, just emerging, or somewhere in between, think of your
work as having a layover in the setting of the university.

This group exhibition is being curated by a CSULB art history seminar
taught by Dr. Karen Kleinfelder on the possibilities and limitations of
relational art.

An online catalogue is being constructed and can be accessed at
CatalyticEmergence.net. Please log on to the website for complete
submission information.

Dr. Karen Kleinfelder

CSULB Art Department

1250 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90840-3501

Key Dates and Deadlines

· Submissions due on Monday, October 11th

· Acceptance notifications on Thursday, October 21st

· Delivery of work/set-up on Friday, November 5th

· Exhibition reception on Sunday, November 7th from 5-7 pm.

· Pick up or artworks on Wednesday, November 10th

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Karen Kleinfelder (dr.karenk@verizon.net
),

Michael Wilde (wilde@speakeasy.org ),
Marielos Zeka (marieloszeka@gmail.com)

from LA Culture Net