Exhibition Opportunity
November 19th, 2008Opportunity
Submit work
Information
Aegis, the Graduate Student Association of the Hite Art Institute at the
University of Louisville, along with the Commonwealth Center for the
Humanities and Society, invites submissions of artwork from students
currently enrolled in a graduate program for its first biennial
exhibition to be held in conjunction with its symposium on visual
culture.
The Aegis Award of Artistic Excellence, which includes $100, will be
awarded to three (3) entrants by a committee of Fine Arts Faculty.
The exhibit will run from February 12 to March 21, 2009 at the
university’s Gallery X. The exhibition reception and symposium will be
held on Saturday, February 14, 2009.
The theme for this year’s symposium is inspired by a collection of
essays by contemporary artist Mary Kelly, also entitled Imaging Desire.
Through her writings, she discusses how desire has influenced the art
and art history of the last four decades “by transforming the
phenomenological presence of the body into an image of sexual
difference, extending the interrogation of the object to include the
subjective conditions of its existence, turning political intent into
personal accountability, and translating institutional critique into the
question of authority” (xxii).
We welcome works of art from every media that address the topic of
desire through one or more of the following themes:
The pleasures of looking, Objectification, The Body, Spectatorship, Commodity fetishism, Power and Authority, The Gaze, Voyeurism, Identity and/or Subjectivity, Narcissism and/or Fetishism, Sexuality and/or Eroticism, The interventions of Feminist, Queer and/or Othered artists and audiences
Requirements
Interested individuals should submit:
A digital image of their work to be considered (no larger than 300
dpi resolution)
A full identification of the work (artist name, phone number, title,
medium, dimension, and value)
A short artist statement, no longer than one page in length
A current CV
Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2009. Selections will be chosen
by a committee of faculty members and curatorial graduate students from
the Hite Art Institute.
Send submission via email to: hite.curatorial@gmail.com; please include
“Aegis Submission” in the email subject heading.
