Tuesday, March 17, 2015
MIT MUSEUM CALL FOR RACING SCULPTURE - April 10, 2015
Call for Entries for two one-day showings this spring in Cambridge. Proposals for both are due April 10; one showing is juried, the other will be lightly curated.
1. MIT MUSEUM EXHIBITION (April 26) of designs, schematics, and prototypes, a signature event of the Cambridge Science Festival. This two-hour event will be lightly curated; we will try to include at least one work by each submitter.
2. SCULPTURE RACE & EXHIBITION at the CAMBRIDGE ARTS RIVER FESTIVAL (June 6). Participants will race their fine art on a 3/4 mile course, in a performance art/installation style event. After the morning race, they will exhibit their work for the rest of the day in the main outdoors Festival area. While the sculpture race takes place just before the official start of the June 6 Festival, typical attendance during the one-day arts event has been estimated at 150,000 to 200,000. This is a juried event.
Please see the online call and website for details on submission and design guidelines, www.sculptureracing/participate/call-for-entries, or go to the main page, www.sculptureracing.org, and click on Race! in the ribbon.
SCULPTURE RACING is an original genre created in Cambridge and Boston in the 1980s by artists of the World Sculpture Racing Society (WSRS--including Geoff Koetsch, Arthur Ganson, Pat Keck, Bill Wainright, George Greenamyer, John Weidman, and Kirby Scudder). Historically and stylistically distinct from the "kinetic sculpture racing" genre popular elsewhere in the country, the WSRS style features pushed, pulled, and pedaled fine art sculptures, serious or whimsical, as can be seen on the website. The aesthetic is interdisciplinary, total-art spectacle. People’s Sculpture Racing is a contemporary revival.
1. MIT MUSEUM EXHIBITION (April 26) of designs, schematics, and prototypes, a signature event of the Cambridge Science Festival. This two-hour event will be lightly curated; we will try to include at least one work by each submitter.
2. SCULPTURE RACE & EXHIBITION at the CAMBRIDGE ARTS RIVER FESTIVAL (June 6). Participants will race their fine art on a 3/4 mile course, in a performance art/installation style event. After the morning race, they will exhibit their work for the rest of the day in the main outdoors Festival area. While the sculpture race takes place just before the official start of the June 6 Festival, typical attendance during the one-day arts event has been estimated at 150,000 to 200,000. This is a juried event.
Please see the online call and website for details on submission and design guidelines, www.sculptureracing/participate/call-for-entries, or go to the main page, www.sculptureracing.org, and click on Race! in the ribbon.
SCULPTURE RACING is an original genre created in Cambridge and Boston in the 1980s by artists of the World Sculpture Racing Society (WSRS--including Geoff Koetsch, Arthur Ganson, Pat Keck, Bill Wainright, George Greenamyer, John Weidman, and Kirby Scudder). Historically and stylistically distinct from the "kinetic sculpture racing" genre popular elsewhere in the country, the WSRS style features pushed, pulled, and pedaled fine art sculptures, serious or whimsical, as can be seen on the website. The aesthetic is interdisciplinary, total-art spectacle. People’s Sculpture Racing is a contemporary revival.
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