Burrinja invites you to enter the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale acquisitive art prize.
The Burrinja Biennale invites works that respond to themes of climate change both locally – in the Dandenong Ranges – and globally.
Works may be across any visual arts medium.
The Biennale strives to elicit authentic, non-directed audience responses to art works and the ways in which they provoke responses and contribute to the critical debate and cultural conversations surrounding climate change. The Biennale is an immersive and experiential exhibition incorporating direct and online audience responses and incorporating ongoing responsive art-making activities together with the exhibition.
KEY DATES
Entries Close - August 17, 2015
Finalists Notified – September 7
Finalists Deliver Works to Burrinja – By September 22
Exhibition Opening & Acquisitive Award – Sunday October 11
Exhibition Dates - October 3 to January 31, 2016
Finalists Collect Works – From February 1 to 3, 2016
JUDGES
The panel of judges for the Award will be:
JD Mittmann, Curator and Manager of Collections, Burrinja.
Wendy Garden, Senior Curator at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
One other to be advised
ABOUT
Living with Climate Change - Dandenong Ranges 2050
A cultural project for our community.
Living with Climate Change is a twelve month long Burrinja project exploring through art and creative expression the changes we see on our near horizon: climate, flora and fauna, built environment, social and cultural change.
Living with Climate Change explores and challenges ideas through our community’s artists, composers, performers and environmentalists. The project promotes creative and productive responses to climate change in the region and beyond.
Burrinja’s aim is to engage our community through creative endeavour, expressions and dialogue, allowing the conversation about their own environment to evolve, develop and extend over time.
Projects in the year of Living with Climate Change to date include:
• A subtle exploration of the theme by the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios artists in their 2015 group exhibition at Burrinja: On the Brink: the tensity of change. Artists from 36 studios took many diverse approaches to the theme through their works; from the environmental to the metaphorical.
• The Living with Climate Change Performance. Led by program artistic director Matthew Fagan this event will bring together musicians, choirs, performers and visual artists from across the region for a key participatory creative event at Burrinja. Saturday 10 October. This is to be a co-creation bringing together many different art forms, creativity and perspectives in a framework that encourages participation, improvisation and unknown live art outcomes.
The Burrinja Climate Change Biennale acquisitive art prize will be an ongoing bi-annual outcome of the Project, with an increasing acquisitive award.
HOW TO ENTER
To submit an artwork via our Online Application Form here.
Or you can download printable entry form here for hard copy submission (please include a USB with image files indicated on the application form and/or URL address to online works).
Please note, the fee to enter the Prize is $30.
Please review the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Terms and Conditions before entering the Prize:
Burrinja Climate Change Biennale –Terms and Conditions
APPLICATION FEE
There is no limit to the number of entries permitted.
A non-refundable payment of $30 including GST is applicable to each artwork entered. A receipt will be issued for each entry. You will be emailed a transaction number that you will be asked to provide in your application form.
By paying the application fee you agreed to the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale –Terms and Conditions of entry.
Entries Close - August 17, 2015
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