About the Collaboration, Request and Schedule
Context
The City of Detroit is in the process of re-imagining how land will be used, how and where people will live and where limited dollars will be spent. The Imagination Station is located in the Corktown neighborhood in Detroit. More precisely, it is adjacent to a large, abandoned hotel and between a soon-to-be developed green space and a neighborhood populated with diverse peoples.
The campus itself is at a place of change. We imagine this to be a place of hope and opportunity! Art, from the negro liberation songs to Diego Rivera’s controversial masterpiece fresco, Detroit Industry, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, has been used to imagine new ways of being.
DARE-DARE’s current project, Dis/location, explores experimental and potentially risky presentation contexts by supporting emerging artistic practices in these places. As evident by The Imagination Station’s past programming, our team shares these values. Together, we intend to extend these innovative concepts.
We are looking for projects of a contextual and / or public art nature that interact with reality (past / present / future?), with the everyday and which may evolve or be developed through circumstance.
The Imagination Station / DARE-DARE teams invite artists to speculate on the future of the Imagination Station campus and on art in the urban context by rethinking ideas of displacement, uncertainty and precariousness (could be through the infiltration of various locations and contexts). We seek geographically, theoretically, poetically or politically focused proposals that feed the reflexive and experiential notions described above.
Your intended project could take the form of public intervention, performance, event, round-table, publication, conference/workshop, web site or others that could be a specific period, variable duration or repeated over time.
Your proposals can take different forms. Be inventive! For example,
- Create possible infiltration scenarios
- Deliver a performance that shares stories of past, present and / or future informed by the context presented here
- Design an infiltrating, speculative or imaginative project conveying the role of the arts on matters relating to society, culture and change
- Imagine...the ideal context for art beyond walls in an urban environment
An opportunity for a public conversation may also be invited.
Please go to www.dare-dare.org to learn more about DARE-DARE and its Satellite Project and www.facethestation.com to learn more about collaboration and The Imagination Station.
Request for Entries
* Projects must be on the actual / virtual Imagination Station campus located at 2236 14th Street – visiting the campus is strongly encouraged prior to submission
Please Submit: (Proposals must be submitted electronically)
- A text describing your intention (max. 200 words) (.doc, .pdf)
- A detailed text describing your work (.doc, .pdf)
- One audio or video (max. 5 mins.) and all related documents
Optional items may include: - A curriculum vitae (.doc, .pdf)
- Ten (10) digital images (max. 1 MB) and short list describing the images (.doc, .pdf)
- Press clippings (if available) (.doc, .pdf)
Schedule
PROPOSALS DUE: Saturday, Sept. 24 at 11:59pm and Projects must be completed by October 14
THE JURY: The winner will be chosen by on-line public voting
Voting begins Monday, Sept. 26.
VOTING ENDS: Monday, Oct. 3.
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Wednesday, Oct. 5.
On Friday, Oct. 14 Projects will be presented.
Grant Award
DARE-DARE / Imagination Station offers:
- Exhibition fee of $ 1200
- Author’s rights of $50
- Project promotion
- Organization and gaining all necessary authorization and permits
- Material and production fee up to $500
