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Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL
Open call for Artist Proposals

Art in Odd Places (AIOP) invites artists working across disciplines to
propose projects for its seventh installment. Taking place from October 1 to
10, 2011, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York
City, we encourage proposals that explore this location's rich history,
configuration, and heterogeneous communities. The theme for the upcoming
edition of AiOP is RITUAL including Ceremony, Habituation, Myth, Obsession,
Liturgy, and it will be informed by propositions on the sacred and profane
in everyday actions of people in public space.

In the contemporary moment, the idea of ritual is a highly provocative
concept. It is most commonly linked to the set of actions in religious
ceremony or cultural celebrations, but the notion is also applicable to the
socializing behaviors performed among individuals in the daily engagement
with the social environment and civic space. This edition of AiOP seeks
proposals that subtly disrupt the procedures of the everyday or emphasize
the ritualistic character of small gestures or acts in both religious and
secular life, to establish temporary moments of ecstatic contemplation in
the public realm.

AiOP 2011: RITUAL offers artists the opportunity to make art outside formal
spaces by reconfiguring their artistic practice as public actions or urban
interventions without the confinement of a gallery or museum space. AiOP
2011: RITUAL wants to engage passers-by, providing them with a new
perspective of an otherwise familiar environment through site-specific
installations, social and spatial interventions, video and audio projects,
performance, new media, and other inventive practices. In addressing the
distinct manifestations of ritual, the festival aims to broaden the public's
outlook on art, city dwelling, and social conventions.

Visit artinoddplaces.org for full guidelines and application forms.
Proposal Deadline: May 8, 2011

AiOP 2011 Guest Curators: Trinidad Fombella and Kalia Brooks
AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham
AiOP Festival Producer: Lucia Warck Meister

Ed Woodham
Director, Art in Odd Places
391 Bond Street #3
Brooklyn, NY 11231
artinoddplaces@gmail.com
www.artinoddplaces.org

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