Kancelář turistického ruchu Sancy: umělecká díla na úpatí horského masivu

Sancy Tourist Office Horizons - Arts in Nature
 
Call for applications http://www.avenue-web.net/_generateur/Documents
 

The event is open to artists with a strong national or/and international artistic experience and to young talents (just or recently - less than 2 years- graduated from art school)

Number of candidates selected: 11

Horizons - Arts in Nature event will take place between the 16th June and 16th September 2012. This is the fifth of a contemporary art event based on short-lived visual works of art specifically made for the Sancy massif (heart of the Massif Central in France).

Art remuneration: a payment of €8,000 will be given to each selected artist (covering the creation, travel expenses, the transport of materials from the studio to the site,
installation of the work, food and accommodation for the artist in the area).

Theme:

No specific theme has been given to the event so as to leave the artists free to express their artistic temperament. However, a guideline is taking shape around the notions of "the environment", "territory" and "creation, "Art and ecology" are themes that we embrace as well.

Selection method

- The event is opened to visual artists who can prove national and international artistic experience, as well as to young talent. Artist are selected by a committee including elected representatives, members of civil society and qualified members (arts centre, DRAC Regional Cultural Affairs Department, artists), and “young talent”.

- Are involved as "young talent", students, alone or in team, of Schools of Art, Architecture, Landscape, in penultimate or final year of degree course or have graduated since last year.

- The selection of artists is deliberately national and international.

- The selection committee will select a young talent (alone or in teams) among 11 artists selected (depending on the quality and feasibility of proposed projects).

- The selection committee’s decisions are final and candidates will be informed personally of them at the end of February at the latest; the jury will not have to justify its decisions. To make selection easier, the jury is entitled to request further information from candidates.

Preselection of artists:

The selection committee selects the artists and validates this selection after each presentation by the artists of a bid for the project.

One Guest artist:

The organization reserves the rights to invite an artist who will choose his site from all the proposed sites.

Art grant:

A grant totalling €8,000 will be given to each artist selected. It must cover the following services:

- Producing the work: creation, purchase of and working the materials, logistics, transporting elements from the studio to the site, where necessary, and installation of the work (the artists have to provide the tools and materials needed for their work);

- The artist’s trips;

- Food and accommodation for the artist in the area when visiting sites and creating the work (a list of accommodation will be given to the artists selected);

- The artist’s presence during the installation of the work is mandatory;

- The artist’s presence at the preview is mandatory;

- The production of a explanatory text presenting his/her work and his/her artistic approach. It can be written by the artist or a contemporary art specialist;

- A possible visit to the sites in the Sancy Massif scheduled by the organiser for all the chosen artists.

- The artist has to ensure the maintenance of the work for the duration of the event in case of natural or human degradation of the work;

- The dismantling of the work;

- The use of images of the piece in accordance with moral rights. The candidates selected agree to be photographed along with their working and their work of art for the time the event lasts, in order to be feature on media relating to the Arts in Nature Festival (promotion, communication, by-products (publications, etc.), Internet site, etc.).

- The transfer of the work’s exploitation rights for a period fixed by the organiser. The terms of this transfer will be set by an agreement between the artist and the organiser. Of course the works remain the artists’ intellectual property and the rights are assigned temporarily.

After selecting the artists, the 11 candidates chosen will receive the art grant according to a specific payment scheme. The grant will be paid in three stages:

o 1st payment: €3,000 paid at the outset, after selection

o 2nd payment: €2,500 paid on installation of the work of art

o 3rd payment: €2,500 paid at the end of the event.

If an artist were to withdraw, that would result in a full refund of the amount already paid out.

Applications must be send to the postal address below.
 
Deadline: December 19, 2011 - recieved
 
Contact:
Office de Tourisme du Sancy
Horizons - Rencontres Arts Nature
Allée du Lieutenant Farmont
63 240 Le Mont Dore
France
tel: +33 (0)4 73 65 37 75
fax: +33 (0)4 73 65 37 86
m.vassenet@sancy.com
www.horizons-sancy.com