AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

OPEN CALL FOR ALL CITIZENS
Deadline: April 15, 2012, Midnight EST

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) invites citizens from all walks of life and from
anywhere in this world to propose projects for its eighth installment in New
York City. Taking place from October 5–15, 2012, along 14th Street from
Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, AiOP 2012: MODEL will
proclaim 14th Street as the largest and longest runway in the world. MODEL
intends to take pedestrians off their predictable paths and move them into a
new awareness of their everyday landscape. Citizens are encouraged to shape
the unnoticed planes of the 14th Street geography, imagining the
possibilities of what could be.

We are all citizens of the MODEL runway. We live, work, walk, occupy,
reminisce, two-step, eat, drink, dance, smell, trip, feel, and dream 14th
Street from east to west. 14th Street is our public showroom, free
laboratory, open vitrine, inclusive procession, movement mall, evolving
plaza, and liberated space. No door will separate us.

Through the festival platform, AiOP recognizes its innovative,
community-focused predecessors and contemporaries, including the individuals
and collectives who have brought creativity outdoors through block parties,
happenings, vendors, DIY, actions, busking, break dancers, street art, live
theater, raves, futurism, constructivism, internationalism, soapboxes,
architecture, and everyday people. Sharing your ideas, dreams, and energy
is what drives this festival. We are open.

We encourage moving models, walking theories, practices, and projects that
will sashay, promenade, swagger, roll, prance, play, aspire, duckwalk, run,
jump, drop, tap, crawl, and strut. The results will be celebrated,
presented, demonstrated, and paraded on 14th Street. They will occur along
this corridor in plain view, exposed, transparent, accessible, interactive,
tangible, engaged, audible, robust, and colorful.

AiOP explores the rich history, configuration, and heterogeneous communities
along this highly trafficked corridor. AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries
of communication in the public realm by presenting projects in all
disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations.
Projects engage passersby, 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, ephemeral, and time-based practices. The festival aims
to broaden the public’s outlook on art, city dwelling, and social
conventions, and acts as a reminder that public spaces function as the
epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of
ideas.

AiOP 2012 Guest Lead Curator: Edwin Ramoran
AiOP 2012 Guest Curators: Salley May & Shaun J. Wright
AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham

For guidelines and application please visit http://www.artinoddplaces.org
(2012 Proposals)

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