ARTUB FAVORITE: WEEK ELEVEN
OPEN CALL for The Shanghai Project
This week, Arthub Favorite looks forward to the year 2116. What do you imagine the world will be like in 100 years? Will our lives be better or worse? Sci-fi theorists around the world hypothesize on the societal landscape that will exist in the 22nd century – Blade Runner and Matrix fans can attest to the dystopic frustrations that lay just beyond humanity’s periphery.
The inaugural edition of The Shanghai Project, initiated by Co-artistic Directors Yongwoo Lee, Director of Shanghai Himalayas Museum together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, opens September 4th, 2016. The theme of this first iteration of The Shanghai Project is sustainable future.
Qidian | OPEN CALL
As an independent module of The Shanghai Project, Qidian is dedicated to the discovery of young thinkers, do-ers, and makers across China, providing a unique platform so they can network and share ideas with a wider international audience. For its inaugural edition, Qidian collaborates with the 89plus, a long-term international research project co-founded by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets that investigates the generation of innovators born in or after 1989, to bring together creative individuals of China’s jiulinghou (post-90s) generation through a nationwide open call. Selected candidates will be invited as Researchers to the Shanghai Project to respond to the theme 2116, and their proposed works will be curated into an exhibition with projects by other 89plus participants from around the world.
About The Shanghai Project
The Shanghai Project is an ideas platform departing from the notion of a culture and knowledge “emporium,” a shared time and space for people to gather, procure, and exchange knowledge and culture. The platform will form the basis for cross-cultural interventions, exhibitions, public art installations, commissioned architectural structures, public programs, and an open call to take place in the Shanghai Himalayas Center and various locations around Shanghai from September 5th – November 13th, 2016.
When to Apply?
Monday, 28 March – Monday, 9 May
All submissions will be reviewed and applicants will be contacted by May 21st, 2016.
How to Participate?
1. Click the link here provided by Qidian and complete the form.
2. Upload up to 4 images or PDF (max 10MB each) of your work or project with the form.
3. Submit!
Submission timeline:
Mar 28, Open Call starts
May 9, Open Call closes
May 21, Shortlisted candidates from Round 1 contacted individually
May 21-June 4, Round 2 proposal submission
June 25, Finalists contacted individually
July-Aug, Production & Installation
Sept 4-Nov 13, Exhibition & Other events
Find out more details about the open call here.