Open call for ?In transit > < K��nn�ksess�
Interactive workshop at Annantalo on March 5, 2017 and exhibition at Bokvilla Gallery from March 12-31, 2017
In celebration of Multilingual Month, Satakielikuukausi, Translation is Dialogue invites you to submit artworks for In transit > < K��nn�ksess�. This exhibition raises awareness of the translation process as we interact with and create artworks in the gallery space. Your works on view will inspire and activate the audience to create more artworks. Watch your pictures be translated into a story, your words be translated into an image, and see how many different ways we can translate. Your voice is important! Your voice will be heard! Your voice inspires.
Your creative visual images and texts will be used to prompt dialogue, inspire thoughts, and creatively activate the space. This call is open to all ages. To translate is to communicate!
What to do?
Translate into a drawing and/or a short text of your interpretation of the theme, In transit, K��nn�ksess�.
What to submit?
1. Drawings 2. Short text (1-2 sentences) 3. On the artwork, write name, date, and place of the artist.
Submission deadline:? February 17, 2017
Please mail artworks and stories to: Arlene Tucker, H�meentie 130 E, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Your works will be exhibited and translated at In transit > < K��nn�ksess� open workshop at Annantalo, Annankatu 30, 00100 Helsinki, on March 5th from 13:00-15:30.
All collected works will be installed at Bokvilla Gallery, H�meentie 125, 00560 Helsinki in March 2017. Vernissage details to come.
Documentation of this will be posted on http://intransit2017.weebly.com. NB: Your artistic contributions will not be returned.
Arlene Tucker and Heather Connelly are artists, researchers and art educators based in Helsinki, Finland and Nottingham, UK, respectively. Their work explores translation, translatability, and what it means to translate. Translation is Dialogue (TID), a multi-disciplinary art curation, is a project that builds a mobile platform where everyone is given the chance to create.
Tucker established TID in 2010. In transit > < K��nn�ksess� will be the 9th phase in the project. For more information, please email or phone her at +358.451160518. http://arlene.edicypages.com/translation-is-dialogue
