Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art | open call

The Central Volga Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in the Russian Federation announces OPEN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR ARTISTS for participation in the main project of IX Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art. The theme is Cash. It takes place in the village Shiryaevo of Samara region.

Dates: 12.08. - 09.27.2016
Shiryaevo – Samara

Application deadline is December 15, 2015

Accepted for consideration the new, earlier unrealized projects that fit the theme of the Biennale in 2016 - "Cash." The concept of biennale is here.

Conditions
Artists of the main project participate in the creative laboratory, during which created the artworks (12.08 - 08.26.2015) and in Nomadic show - 08.27.2016, in the village Shiryaevo of Samara region.
Organizers cover the costs associated with accommodation in Shiryaevo and production of art projects as well as assist in obtaining Russian visas and grants for travel.

Check out images from the Biennale's Nomadic Show in 2013

Shiryaevo Biennale, organized in 1999 in the Samara region, has become one of the brands of contemporary art in Russia.

The main project of the Biennale realize as a creative laboratory with obligatory “staying” in the locals' houses and Nomadic Show – one-day final exhibition-tour with locals and visitors. On the one hand, this “immersion” in the local cultural environment is considered to be a tool for creation of irrelevant or “ideal” medium for art statement, a chance for an artist “to start from scratch” without pressure of tried-and-tested image and technology of the art market; on the other hand, the project has got civilizing functions for transformation of local cultural context.

"The Nomadic show" is a symbiosis of two concepts: the European - the "show" and the Asian - "nomadic" life of the nomadic principle for the development of new "territories." "Nomadic show" is the central event of the Biennale. The action takes place only one day during the 8 - 9 hours, and involves the work of all artists workshop. Each participant or the creative team has a personal time for the presentation. To be there, the majority of spectators come from Samara on special ship. The "horde" of spectators moves on the proposed route, along with authors, media and local people, learning all the new centers of art and engaging in the procession all the new members.

Image: from the Nomadic Show, 2013, "Estonian national traditions. Part 3 . Day of Europe" - performance
Andrus Joonas / Estonia