Thursday, March 20, 2014
Tuesday, March 20th, 2014 . . NYC
A Burning Man sanctioned display of Burning Man inspired art within the context of a Chelsea art gallery in all forms of creative mediums.
Works will be available for view and purchase by the general public (with a portion going to The Not-For-Profit-Burning Man Project) and artists will be selected through an open submission process.
Submission Information:
Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2014, 3PM
Exhibition dates: MARCH 20th- April 19th, 2014
Submission Guidlines: Please send a written statement relating your work to the theme, a description of your work, photos and dimensions of your work, installation details, and contact to: gallery151@thecityfirm.com
Curatorial Statement:
Burning Man culture exists in a dynamic world of opposites: The world that is created, and the world that seems assigned as the established, accepted, and imposed reality.
To those in the Burning Man community, the world of the status quo is named "the default world." The contrast of Burning Man's values of radical inclusion, self-reliance, non-commodification, gift giving, and radical
self-expression are the hallmarks of its gatherings, and because they feel so creative and so liberating, they feel more real than the "real" world.
This exhibition explores these aspects profound and profane effects on the quotidian life around us, breaking through the rigidity and conformity to unleash something original, vital, absurd and iconoclastic in our existence. Here we chart a path of originality through the establishment, questioning its "reality" by creating our own. We examine the dichotomy between living in the default world, and dreaming awake a reflection of a world that could be.
Curated by Matt Namer, Kate Raudenbush, Fab 5 Freddy, Stefan Spins & David
Koren
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