Exhibition venue: Tegnerforbundet
Opening: August 18, 2022.
Curator group: Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen, Mari Kanstad Johnsen and Viktor Pedersen.
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"Utopia is an ideal society, a description of a good society, or the form of society that an individual or a group longs for or tries to realize. In everyday speech and political rhetoric, "utopia" and "utopian" are often used to characterize - and define - certain ideas and ideals as unrealistic or unrealizable"
PRONUNCIATION: utopˈi
ETYMOLOGY: from the Greek wordplay on ou-topos, 'non-place', and eu-topos, 'good place'
Wikipedia defines utopia as the notion of a state of happiness, or a perfect place. Is a perfect place an actual, physical place, or can it also be a mental sphere? And how can a state of happiness be achieved?
Artists are among society's visionaries. Often transgressive, provocative, with an alternative view of the world. Artists have presented unexpected thoughts and ideas, exploring issues that no one else has dared to tackle. Utopian ideas can be perceived as unrealistic and unattainable in today's world. But history has shown that it is precisely through free thoughts and the artistic outcome of these that artists have been guides in the development of world society, especially in architecture, and sci-fi in literature. Tegnerforbundet wants to explore utopian dreams, places, states and futures in contemporary art.
What is utopia now? What can art contribute? What do you dream about? What are the ingredients for a happy life for the future? What might the world (if the world is still relevant) look like in 500, 1000, 5000 years?
We're looking for performers and expressions that in different ways approach the above questions or associations with them. We would like to see the transgressive, the cautious, the wild, the kind, the strange and the dangerous, their exploration of the utopian. Tegneforbundet welcomes both drawing in the traditional sense and work that expands and challenges the concept of drawing.
You are hereby invited.
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An application for an open call is submitted via Tegneforbundet's application portal. The application deadline is 1 November 2021, at 23:59. The curatorial group will evaluate the submitted proposals.
The application must contain:
Project description (max. 2000 characters with spaces), sketches / pictures (max. 5 pcs) and CV.
Applications can include both finished works that relate to the theme, or sketches of projects you want to show in the exhibition.
