[It's LIQUID News] Call for Artists: My Cities, Your Identities - Deadline is near!

.art news June 30, 2014
Call for Artists: My Cities, Your IdentitiesInternational video-art, photography, installation and performing art festival Deadline: July 03, 2014   International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting photo works, video/short films, installations and performing art works to include in the next 2014 exhibitions:   My Cities, Your Identities, international art festival of photography, video art, installation and performing art, will be held at BigCi – Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives artist residency at Wollemi National Park, Australia, from the 18th to the 24th of July 2014.   The opening day will be Saturday 19th July 2014.   Among all the selected artists for the exhibition, will also be selected the winner of an art residency stay in BigCi, from the 14th to the 27th of July 2014.   My Cities, Your Identities explores the parallel relationship between cities’ transformations and identities’ evolution: modern metropolis are often the result of the compound of different cities and cultures, as it is for contemporary identities. During this borderless time we have the possibility to live and experience a constant hybridization among cities, bodies, societies, cultures and new technologies, which shapes and regenerates our individualities. Our whole being evolves as well as contemporary cultures and modern cities do.   The event is open to photography, video art, installation and performing art.   Deadline for applications is July 03, 2014   BigCi is an independent, artist run, not for profit micro artist residency program with a focus on supporting serious artists by facilitating their projects. Being “micro” means that it is flexible in the range of creative initiatives that interest them, personal in the way they work with individual artists, quick in making decisions, energetic in development and implementation of projects, open to multicultural and multidisciplinary collaborations. BigCi provides a ground for the professional development of artists from various fields, such as the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Music, Photography, Film, and Hybrid Arts. Painters, sculptors, multimedia artists, performance artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and other creative souls are invited to apply for the residency. In addition to the artist residency program, BigCi is available for a variety of events, performances, workshops, installations and exhibitions.   To take part in the selection, send your artworks’ submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (for video-art), pictures of your artworks via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:   International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy   The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.   International ArtExpo is an art organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.   International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari (Italy) +39.0805234018 +39.3387574098lucacurci@lucacurci.com www.lucacurci.com/artexpo   press officeIt’s LIQUID Group