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The Hospital Arts Festival 2015 invites all interested artists who are wishing to submit their work to the September Festival of art and culture, to be held in Hospital, Co. Limerick on 16th-20th Sept, 2015. The Festival organisers will host a Site Visit of the town and show the group the windows and spaces that are to be included in The Hospital Arts Festival 2015, this shall also give the artists a chance to meet with local proprietors who are involved in the Festival.
Bus Eireann runs a bus to Hospital, which leaves from Colbert Station, Limerick City at 12:15 and arrives in Hospital at 1pm.
Keep an eye on updates for Site Visit on our website below.

hospitalartsfest.com

OPEN CALL
Hospital Arts Festival 2015
Land Labour Industry

In 2014 the inaugural Hospital Shop Window Festival (HSWF) invited artists from across all art disciplines to submit proposals to their Festival of Art and Culture. In 2015 an expanded Arts and Culture Festival is venturing from the shop windows to take in the whole town as Hospital celebrates the 800th anniversary of its founding. Submission for the visual arts section of the Festival is now open and this year we will be working in collaboration with guest curator Moran Been-noon.

With consideration to the heritage of Hospital, ideas in the relation to the concept of Land, Labour, Industry are welcome for this year's Festival.

In addition to Visual Art submissions, Hospital Arts Festival is also planning
'For One Night Only', a Video Open Call specifically for film, video and animation shorts. Artists are invited to submit, electronically in the first instance, video works of no longer than 15 minutes, with the narrative relevant to the overall working theme for Hospital Arts Festival, Land, Labour, Industry.

SUBMISSION FOR SELECTION INCLUDING VIDEO OPEN CALL
Please read the Guest Curator's Call for Work (Below)
Works in any medium can be submitted
Digital images or samples of the works must first be emailed to: hospitalartsfest@gmail.com

Acceptable formats are jpeg/mp4/avi/wav
For visual work, jpeg image size must not exceed 1MB per image with a maximum of 10 images.
Each jpeg image must be labeled in the following format:
artist surname_artist forename_project title
Please include the following information with your submission:
Name of Artist / Title of Work / Medium / Dimensions (where applicable) / Artist Statement / Artist Website / Artist CV
Video or sound works may be transmitted by email link to: OneDrive, Dropbox, or WeTransfer
Please note that the organisers require all selected video works to be submitted on DVD
Each submission must be accompanied by a submission fee of €10 payable by Paypal to:
hospitalartsfest@gmail.com
Please include your Paypal receipt number or forward on email acknowledgment of the payment with your submission
Submission Deadline: Deadline for email submissions is Monday, 20 July at 5pm
Selection: Notification to artists of the selection is Monday, 10 August

Moran Been-noon
Guest Curator Call for Work
HOSPITAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2015
In my work as a curator, I am interested in working with artists who have something to say about society, and use the unique advantages granted by art to provoke thought in their audiences' minds, to drive critical thought about the context within which the work is created and experienced. The short way to describe this work would be "political art", but it would be important to clarify what this means. My use of the term "political" relies on the term as it is explained in Rancière's Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (1998), seeing politics as a problem posed to our concept of correctly conducting our everyday lives as individuals, as well as our relationships with each other within the various communities that make up society.

Specifically for this festival, I would be interested in engaging with work that truly takes the time to explore the contemporary and historical situations set in the town of Hospital. In any medium deemed appropriate for the specific piece, I would encourage artists to look for the meaning of the terms

"Land, Labour & Industry" for Hospital of today. A piece that would impress me would have concrete content and a clear context, while the piece could be abstract in form (still/moving/3d visual or audio work all welcome), it would need to communicate with its audience without requiring supporting documentation to be presented alongside the work.

With Kind Regards
Jacki Hehir
Artist

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jacki.hehir@gmail.com

Moran Been-noon
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