OPEN CALL

The 2008 Open Call period is now closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted proposals.

If you would like to consider submitting a proposal for next year (late winter/early spring each year) please read below for further information.

Each year Art in General holds an exciting open call for artists in the New York City area to propose potential exhibitions or projects. Art in General facilitates the production and exhibition of artist’s proposed projects, shifting its mode of support (whether technical, social, academic or as yet undefined) according to what is required for the full realization of their art work.

The annual open call is not designed to respond to a given theme, site, or moment. It is open-ended with the intention of inviting artists to profoundly explore their individual interests, and for them to develop a proposal that is in principle rooted in their ongoing or burgeoning interests. Art in General is interested in commissioning works that are creative, inventive, and that propose critical and imaginative approaches to content and form. The selection process also takes into account the many and diverse artistic practices that artist develop and make use of today, with the purpose of presenting various ways of being, experiencing, and working in this world.

Art in General has a different relationship to each artist, and thus to each project. To intellectually and logistically address the artist’s project proposal, Art in General acts primarily as a catalyst, sometimes as a co-producer, and other times as the starting point of a larger, long-term artistic endeavor. And this is what the commissions program aims for: to provide the artists with an optimal support structure and venue to realize and present their work in the best form—an exhibition, an event, a performance, a location-based work in the public domain or the very platforms of discursive space.