Giant Steps - Artist residency on the Moon
Registration Deadline: Thursday, Oct 1, 201512:42 AMEDT
Submission Deadline: Thursday, Jan 14, 201610:30 AMEDT
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GIANT STEPS Artist Residency on the Moon March 3 – April 3, 2016 King Street Station, Seattle WA USA
A group competition and exhibition Presented by Vital 5 Productions Curated by Greg Lundgren.
Giant Steps is a conceptual group exhibition positing the question of art in space. The Pacific Northwest holds an unlikely concentration of public and private space enterprises, including but not limited to Boeing, Vulcan Aerospace, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Space X, and Blue Origin. All of these companies are actively engaged in cutting edge technologies designed to take mankind into outer space. While there are a number of reasons behind this quest for space travel, seldom do we talk about how this affects the future of art and culture, and more specifically, what would artists do given the opportunity to create art in space.
First proposed as an imaginary exhibit on the w3seattle.com, Vital 5 Productions has decided to bring this concept to the international arts community as a competition and exhibition, designed to inspire the creative and technical communities to imagine and propose art projects on the surface of the Moon.
While the incentive for the participating artist or team may not be the actualization of their project, there will be a $10,000.00 cash prize, determined by a jury composed of aerospace and art professionals. Beyond this monetary award, Giant Steps will yield an unprecedented bounty of art-in-space proposals, giving humanity at large an inspired and original collection of conceptual artworks previously not considered.
Vital 5 Productions will host an open call for proposals, October 1, 2015 – January 14, 2016, and vet the most imaginative, innovative and conceptually strong ideas for inclusion into the Giant Steps exhibition. The number of proposals exhibited will be driven by available space and diversity of medium, with a jury of eight selecting the winner from those artists or teams included in the exhibit. Curator Greg Lundgren will serve as the ninth vote in the event of a tie.
The Vital 5 will host an opening reception for Giant Steps on March 3rd, 2016 from 6:00-10:00 pm. The exhibition will run through April 3rd, 2016 at King Street Station in the third floor gallery. Gallery hours: Friday - Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00 pm.
Giant Steps Jurors
Vital 5 Productions is honored to work with these aerospace and arts professionals. Their vote will select the $10,000 grand prize winner:
Greg Bell – Senior Curator, Vulcan Inc
Sarah Bergman – Design Thinker + Director, Pollinator Pathway
Robin Held – Director, Neddy Artist Awards, Cornish College of the Arts
Kyu Hwang – Director of Programming, Vulcan Aerospace
Doug King – President/CEO, Museum of Flight
Susie Lee – Artist + CEO/co-founder of Siren Alan Maskin – Architect/Principal, Olson Kundig
Charles Mudede – Critic, the Stranger
Roger Myers – Executive Director, Advanced In-Space Programs – Aerojet Rocketdyne
Erika Wagner – Board Member, Washington Aerospace Scholars
Competition Rules
- Your work on the Moon must be achievable by you and one assisting astronaut. Subcontractors and other third parties may assist in your preparations, operations and execution from Earth, but only the artist and assisting astronaut will be present on the Moon.
- The full payload of your supplies and materials to the moon cannot exceed 6 cubic feet and weigh no more than 60 KG. Your return payload cannot exceed 5 KG.
- No explosives, toxic substances, or hazardous materials may be included in said payload. Batteries and/or solar powered equipment are permissible.
- Artist, or artist groups may include installation, sculpture, performance, dance, film, moon works or mixed media.
- The resident artist and assisting astronaut will have a total of twelve hours outside the craft, on the surface of the moon. This time will be divided into three 4 hour intervals maximum. Total duration of Moon residency will be 48 hours.
- Artists may use existing material on the moon (such as rocks and dust) and are expected to leave their supplies and/or artwork on the moon.
- The budget for supplies and materials for your proposed project cannot exceed US$500,000.
- Artist and artist groups must take into consideration the temperature, gravitational force and other atmospheric conditions of the Moon. We recommend using Wikipedia for general information and consulting with scientists, engineers and physicists to verify the plausibility of your proposal. Proposals that do not consider the scientific and atmospheric conditions on the moon will not be included in the exhibition.
- The landing site of the craft will be in the lunar equatorial regions, near side of the Moon, during the lunar mid-morning.
- The winning proposal will be based upon originality, conceptual strength, and technical feasibility. Please view these parameters as though the winning proposal were indeed going to be executed.
Exhibition Rules
- Giant Steps is open to all people in all countries, regardless of age, education, or background.
- You are allowed to enter one proposal. This can be submitted as a group or as an individual.
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Proposals can be a combination of text and image.
Proposals are submitted by emailing: [email protected] and must no larger than 3 MB total. Proposals accepted for exhibition are expected to be presented in the context of an art exhibition. This may include prototypes, constructions, performance, video or other demonstrations to help better represent your idea.
Proposals must be presented as follows:
A – Title of Proposal
B – Name(s) of presenting artist(s) or team
C – Physical Address, email and phone of contact
D – 500 words or less description of your proposal
E – 250 words or less on how your proposal will manifest for gallery exhibition
- Proposal deadline is midnight, January 14, 2016. Late entries will not be considered.
- Proposals must be within the realm of possibility. You do not have to fully understand the technology involved, but technically-impossible submissions will be disqualified. We want ideas that can be realized.
- Vital 5 Productions will screen submitted proposals for exhibition and define the exhibiting artists (between 50-100). These accepted proposals will be then prepared for exhibition (2D, 3D and performance/installation aspects encouraged) by the artist or team. Proposals that have performance and/or 3D elements are encouraged.
- Eight jurors (four from the aerospace community and four from the art community) will review and select the winning entry on March 2nd. The winner will be announced at 9:00 pm, March 3rd, during the opening celebration. Artist payment will be made no later than March 10, 2016.
- Applicants are responsible for providing all exhibition material and/or art/performance/film to the King Street Station – be that in person or by post. Applicants are not required to attend the exhibition, but are responsible for transportation costs to and from the event space. (Artists are also responsible for the installation of their work, whether in person, or in the form of detailed instruction provided for the curatorial team to use as reference.)
- Vital 5 Productions retains the right to photograph, publish or reproduce the content of any submission exhibited in Giant Steps.
- Entries selected for exhibition must be retrieved from King Street Station within 7 days of closing (April 3, 2016).
- All artists, engineers and persons accepted to exhibit in Giant Steps will receive full access to the competition.
For additional information, please contact Greg Lundgren.
Email – [email protected]
Mail – 1011 Boren Avenue, Seattle WA 98104
You can learn more here or at Vital5productions.com.
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