I. WONDER ROOM
FEE: £1500 + materials budget
Application Deadline: Midnight, Friday 19
April
Install dates: 5 – 9 Aug 2013
Exhibition dates: 10 Aug – 31st Oct
2013
We
call for a Wonder Room, in which the oddities and ecstatic wonders of the
unknown world collide with the darkest, bloodiest grotesqueries and with
monsters. We call for the intricate interplay of fiction, narrative and the
adventurer’s tales with collected objects. We call for drama, resonance and the
romance of possibility. The faded label, the sealed box, the glass cabinet, the
pinned beetle. We call for your ideas. You are an artist, or an artist who
curates; perhaps you have collaborators. You have the ability to make, perform,
recall, subvert, unsettle, emote, explode, reimagine, evoke, horrify, terrify or
inspire. We want you to make us an exhibition with the potential to inspire
that most elusive and desirable response from visitors: WONDER.
This
exhibition will be the final one of four making up The Monument Project at PPG, a year dedicated to exploring the ways
in which the contemporary artist can engage with history. A parallel theatre
project is taking place and the successful artist(s) will be working in
collaboration with award-winning young Glasgow theatre company Fish and Game, who will be producing a
piece of i-pad theatre to connect with the exhibition. For this exciting
project we are looking for proposals which surprise us and inspire us. We are
open to unusual exhibition formats and new possibilities. The gallery space is
20 feet by 20 feet approx, with a ceiling height of approximately 17.
HOW
TO APPLY
* No questions
please, just proposals*
To apply, send us
the following by midnight on Friday 19 April 2013:
- A curriculum vitae for each artist
- 5-10 images of previous work or a link to your website
- A proposal. Your proposal must include a concise statement of ideas on a single A4 page but other than that, feel free to surprise us.
Email
responses to: kate.ppgallery@yahoo.co.uk
Or submit by post
to:
Kate Sloan
The Peter Potter Gallery
10 The Sands,
Haddington
East Lothian
EH41 3EY
LINKS:
II. WITCH
FEE: £1500 + materials budget
Application Deadline: Midnight, Sunday 28
April
Install dates: 27 – 31 May 2013
Exhibition dates: 1 June – 3rd Aug
2013
During
1661 and 1662 Scotland experienced one of the largest witch hunts in its
history - in the space of sixteen months no fewer than 660 people were publicly
accused of various acts of sorcery and diabolism. The hunt began to the east of
Edinburgh, where 206 individuals were named as witches between April and
December 1661. The town of Haddington in particular – holds the dubious record
of having executed the most witches in Europe. As part of The Monument Project, the Peter Potter Gallery is calling for an
artist – or several artists – to propose work which explores this savage period
of paranoia and persecution.
The
history of the witch hunt is full of physical references. The narratives around
accused witches are full of plaited knots of hair, skin, urine, blood. The
strange phenomenon of the professional ‘witch-pricker’ appeared across Europe,
in which the accused witch was stripped and moles and scars pricked with
needles. If the accused did not bleed, they were found to be guilty. In
addition to the sheer physicality of the mythology around witchcraft, there is
much evidence of both mental illness and serious crime amongst witches. Often crimes
such as infanticide which disrupted the notion of the maternal instinct
featured in cases of witchcraft.
Inventive
proposals which engage with any aspect of this history are welcomed:
HOW
TO APPLY
*No questions
please, just proposals*
To apply, send us
the following by Midnight on Sunday 28 April 2013:
- A curriculum vitae for each artist
- 5-10 images of previous work or a link to your website
- A proposal. Your proposal must include a concise statement of ideas on a single A4 page but other than that, feel free to surprise us.
Email
responses to: kate.ppgallery@yahoo.co.uk
Or submit by post
to:
Kate Sloan
The Peter Potter Gallery
10 The Sands,
Haddington
East Lothian
EH41 3EY
LINKS:
