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CALL FOR ART WORK
Posted for the Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC

Third Angel Orensanz Foundation Installation Art Award 2000 
Guidelines

We take pleasure in announcing  the 3rd annual Angel Orensanz Foundation
Installation Art Award. For the competition, the Foundation is soliciting
proposals that will focus on the landmark exterior space, i.e., the
windows/and or the facade, of the Foundation’s building in New York’s
historic Lower East Side. The winner’s work, whether video, slides or
multimedia presentations including sound, will be publicly displayed for a
period of time on the building’s facade. The proposals should show
awareness of the building’s architecture, history, and geographic location
including how its past and present use has evolved in response to the
larger changes that have taken place in Lower Manhattan over the past 150
years.

Ideally, a visit to the building at 172 Norfolk Street would be the best
preparation for participating in the contest. However, it is understood
that many participants in the Foundation’s competition live outside of the
United States and that many proposals will be prepared primarily by using
information provided by the Foundation’s web site.

Additional materials describing the building are also available upon
request. This year’s contest will also allow proposals to be submitted in
part through the website, giving artists from all over the world the
opportunity to create and present their work in relationship to a unique
space in Manhattan. Additionally, the winners’ names along with a
description of their project will be posted both on the Foundation’s web site.

The Center is a neo-gothic building which was designed in 1849 as a
synagogue by Berlin architect Alexander Seltzer. His design was directly
inspired by the cathedral of Cologne and the German romantic movement. This
structure and its German Jewish congregation witnessed the birth of the
Jewish Reform movement in America. The synagogue was known as Anshei Chesed
(People of Kindness) and was the home of the predecessor congregation to
the present midtown Temple Emanuel. As German Jews left their Kleine
Deutschland neighborhood in Lower Manhattan for the newer and more elegant
Upper East Side, a massive wave of immigrants from Eastern and Southern
Europe came to the Lower East Side thereby changing the character of the
neighborhood into a poor, densely populated area. As a result, in the 20th
century, the synagogue housed an East European congregation known Anshei
Slonim (People of Slonim - a town in northeastern land). In the mid sixties
the building fell into disrepair and was unused until purchased in 1986 by
the Orensanz Foundation. Today it is the oldest surviving synagogue
building in New York City and is a thriving multi-disciplinary,
international center for the arts that also hosts Jewish cultural events.

The immigrants’ Lower East Side of  Manhattan has been a breeding ground
for artistic, literary, musical and political innovation in America: past
denizens have been John Reed, Emma Goldman, Allen Ginsburg, Andy Warhol,
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. This neighborhood is experiencing
explosive growth as a hub for theatre, music, digital  arts, performance
and design and is home to the LaMama Theatre and the NewRican Poet’s Café,
among other institutions.

Artists and other related professionals are eligible to submit proposals
either as individuals or in small teams. Participants must include a resume
with information about prior work. In addition to slides and/or videos of
how the final work would look, proposals must include a narrative to
explain the concept, a description of the materials and equipment necessary
to produce the installation, and drawings or other interpretive materials
that can help the jury and public understand the proposal. For entries to
be considered for publication in a catalogue, black and white photos or
slides are also requested.

The deadline is May 1, 2000. Project submissions well in advance of the
deadline are encouraged. The winners’ work (slide, video and /or
multimedia) will be projected on the building’s facade over a three week
period, and an opening celebration, with  an exhibition of the work  will
also take place. A jury of New York art critics will select the first and
second place awards. The jury will decide based on the materials that are
included with the proposal.   Proposals should be sent to:
      Angel Orensanz Foundation, Center for the Arts
      172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002
      or e-mail: [log in to unmask]
     
 web site: www.orensanz.org
      telephone: (212) 780-0175
      fax: (212) 529-1864

PLEASE FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FORM AND SEND IT BACK TO THE ADDRESS GIVEN
HERE BELOW:

REGISTRATION FORM
3rd Angel Orensanz International Installation Art Award 2000


Name

Address


City                    	

State (Country)                 	


Zip Code


Title of Project


Signature

E-mail your registration form to:[log in to unmask]
or Mail your registration form to: Angel Orensanz Foundation, Center for
the Arts
ATT: Installation Art Award 2000, 172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY
10002-1602, USA



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Klara Palotai Szeberenyi
New York University
Graduate School of Arts and Science
Museum Studies Program

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Telephone: (212) 998-8080
Fax:             (212) 995-4185
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