• CALL FOR ARTISTS
    DEADLINE May 15, 2021

    Embodied Forest is the title of the fall ecoartspace online exhibition + book that will launch September 1, 2021. Applicants whose work addresses our human relationship with trees and forests are encouraged to apply.

    In the context of this exhibition, the term embodied can be understood as the act of giving a body to something intangible; to incarnate; to stand in the same place of; to become part of a collective body; to personify; or to empathize. The subject matter of your work for Embodied Forest will address the worlds of trees and forests including though not limited to companion species, microbes, root systems, mushrooms, birds, fungus, moss, lichen, mist/fog/water, insects, spiders, parasites, bacteria, etc.

    The entanglements of a forest are unlimited and we are seeking to represent an in-depth examination of the interconnectedness of trees with all living things including humans. All mediums are accepted and will include performance, sound and video. Abstraction is also encouraged and poetry.

    Since June 2020 ecoartspace has held a monthly Zoom dialogue with member artists presenting their work about trees. Sant Khalsa, curator of Tree Talk and founder of the Joshua Tree Center For Photographic Arts will be co-hosting this monthly dialogue through the end of 2021. A select group of artists from Embodied Forest will be featured in upcoming events.

    JURORS:

    Lilian Fraiji is a curator and producer based in the Amazon, Brazil and is the co-founder of LABVERDE program, a project dedicated to developing multidisciplinary content involving art, science and nature. As an independent researcher Fraiji is interested in how culture is related to nature and how the landscape is shaped in the Anthropocene. She has curated several art exhibitions involving the subject of the Amazon including in 2019, How to Talk with Trees and Irreversível, and in 2018, Amazon: Invisible Landscape. Fraiji is also responsible for Confluência Festival: Art, Science and Forest Knowledge promoting art engaged with environmental issues in the Amazon. She is a specialist in Cultural Management from Barcelona University and has a Master’s degree in Curating Arts from the University of Ramon Llull, Barcelona. In 2019 Fraiji was awarded the Serrapilheira prize for contributing to democratizing science.

    Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator and educator specializing in the histories of art and politics of aesthetics in representations of nature in art. He’s the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and US Correspondent for Esse Magazine – Art + Opinion. Aloi is co-editor of the University of Minnesota series Art after Nature, and has authored four books including Why Look at Plants? - The Vegetal World in Contemporary Art (2019) and Lucian Freud – Herbarium (2019). He lectures at museums and universities internationally and has taught at Queen Mary University of London, Goldsmiths, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi received his Ph.D. in natural history and contemporary art from Goldsmiths University of London and has worked as an educator at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries.

     

    TIMELINE: 2021

    Deadline May 15

    Selected artists announced by July 1

    Exhibition launches online September 1

    Book available in October

     

    ecoartspace is a membership platform for artists addressing environmental issues. As of March 2021, we are 500 members from ten countries, though primarily in the United States. Members include students, advocates, artists, arts professionals, scientists, galleries, and institutions. We hold monthly Zoom events where members present their work and we produce an annual online exhibition and book each fall. 

    You MUST BE an ecoartspace member to apply.

    If you've been financially impacted by the pandemic, please contact us for assistance at info@ecoartspace.org.

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    Jurors will give preference to works made in the last three years although are open to earlier works.

    NOTE: if you are a sound or video artist and have large files you would like to submit, please email info@ecoartspace.org with a direct link online for juror viewing. You are also required to submit a still image from the video in this application and if you're a sound artist, submit at least one image for each sound work.

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    You must be a member of ecoartspace to be eligible to submit your work for the Embodied Forest exhibition, Join HERE.

    The cost for submission of up to three images is $30. After you have completed your application and hit the submit button below, please go to the Donation page on the ecoartspace website to make your payment HERE.

    The application fee will go toward the design and printing of the book that will be produced in September, available in October, on the occasion of the exhibition.

  • Background image: ©Sant Khalsa, Ponderosa pine planted in 1992, Holcomb Valley, California, from “Growing Air,” 2020, archival pigment print (detail)

     

    COPYRIGHT

    By submitting your artwork you are licensing ecoartspace to use artworks selected for future events, our website, promotion or other purposes. You still retain rights to your work. All works will be credited.

    TERMS OF USE

    Please only submit original content. 
Your submission must be your own work and not infringe any copyright, trademark or intellectual property. 

All images are copyrighted and owned by the artist. By submitting your work to ecoartspace, you agree to let ecoartspace publish, edit, use, modify or refuse the selected submissions.


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