[syndicate] Call for Works Deadline: 25th March 2008! Special World EXPOsition

[alexander nikolic]

---sorry for crossposting---

 From April 26 to May 15th 2008 a special edition of the World Expo  
will take place in Vienna.

Its about taking position . A zone to counter, to challenge, to  
interfere - to trouble. Not only common inscriptions these term  
holds. For this occasion we are looking for artworks, fanzines,  
manifests, performances, internet-based projects, objects,  
documentaries and corporate presentations. Its an almost zero budget  
production, but try to make us laugh or cry or horny.

When the first EXPOs started they had the task to promote and produce  
fascination for new technologies as well as being a form od  
amusement. Disneylandesque places were built, accompanied later with  
corporate and national Pavilions, which were often enriched with  
artworks. These conveyed the notion of an almost folkloric  
competition, often to hide the subliminal message of all its recent  
editions: that the consumerist Neoliberal society is the only form  
which can generate democracy, liberty for individuals, as well as  
changing our way of living,nourish the hungry, foster the poor and  
also save the Planet.

Proposals, which tackle national representation and appropriate  
capitalist strategies in a subversive, intelligent or funny way,  
which question the role of art and economy, open and shift certain  
perspectives, will be considered for the exhibition.

The Vienna World-Expo will be hosted by


Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte in co-operation with
LABfactory (former office of the Viennese WORLD EXPO 1873).
Project-Curator: Alexander Nikolic.

Please enclose an artist statement, a text on why you've decided to  
propose your work.
images of the work (300dpi) as we'll produce a small folder.
artists CV

Deadline: 25th of March 2008

For any queries, feel free to get in touch:

world-expo(AT)eroticunion(dot)org


At this stage we cannot guarantee that we will be able to return the  
works after the show.

more info visit: http://www.eroticunion.org




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