GROCERY
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It is snowing like crazy at my house right now, and I promise you that the grocery store is crowded with people shopping as though it is the last food they will ever buy. There is something about the peaceful quilt of snowfall that brings out the animal instinct regarding food. My favorite is when people stock up on microwaveable food that they won’t be able to cook if there is no electricity. What would these folks think if they could see themselves in the mirror? This next call is a “momentary mirror” of sorts. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Filter Photo Festival for Archetype Drift, an exhibit at the Johalla Projects Gallery (Chicago, IL). The entry fee is low, and I appreciate the questions this Call asks. Investigate for yourself…
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CALL for ENTRIES:
Archetype Drift
Photography can be a painful mirror. Because of its illustrative tendencies and mnemonic capacities, photography enables us to tell the stories we want to tell with a hammer that is the frame. What happens when the medium gets in the way of the most important narratives?
Photography can be a seductive enabler that, at its worst, allows us to fetishize, beautify, and conduct shallow investigations. Meanwhile, paradigmatic changes in history and culture metastasize alongside new technological ways to make, edit, and distribute images. Are photographers pushing envelopes of meaning and relevance? Are they even keeping pace?
With the ubiquity of images high and low, how does an image-maker create cultural value in 2013? Archetype Drift is a call for new methods of photographic making, editing, and presentation. It is a call for risk taking, chance operations, relabeling, and letting go of the comfortable. It is in itself an experiment and a (momentary) mirror.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists
MEDIA: All types of photographic and lens-based work will be considered, including video and GIFs.
DEADLINE: February 4, 2013
NOTIFICATION: Mid-February
ENTRY FEE: $25 for 3, $5 ea. add’l up to 6
CURATOR: Jason Lazarus (born 1975) is a Chicago based artist, curator, writer, and educator who received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2003.
His work has been exhibited internationally and is in major collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bank of America LaSalle Photography Collection, and the Milwaukee Museum of Art among others. Major exhibitions include “Black is, Black ain’t” at the Renaissance Society, “On the Scene” at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Not the Way You Remembered” at the Queens Museum of Art, and “Image Search” at PPOW Gallery in NYC.
Jason recently became the Co-Director of Chicago Artist Writers, a new art criticism platform.
SALES: There is no commission on artwork, and artists will receive 100% of any sales.
For complete details, Read the Full Call!
