Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2011

Dear All,

We would like to invite you to take part in a billboard art competition.
The invitation is addressed to all the interested artists and students.
There is no entry fee.
The best 10 artworks selected by an international jury panel will be
printed and exhibited in the urban space of the city of Torun, Poland in
September/October 2011. The author of the winning entry will receive the
Main Award in the amount of PLN 10.000 (about EUR 2.540, USD 3.770).
The competition accompanies the 4th Festival of Art on Billboards Art
Moves.

The artwork is supposed to be a creative response to this year’s
competition theme: “Reality or fiction? Let’s pretend it’s not there.”
This slogan can serve as a kind of a metaphor of the processes taking
place in the contemporary world. The slogan concerns daily matters and
questions whether the things/situations in our daily life are real or
fictional and how can we distinguish one from the other.
Simultaneously, the slogan also raises a question what we, as
individuals or as a community, are trying to hide. Are there any
specific phenomena, processes or events we tend to intentionally ignore
and pretend “it’s not there”?
Do the Internet help us to reach something which is real or rather drags
us into the world of fiction? Do the hi-tech forms of communication help
or hinder our contact with reality? There could be a lot of different
interpretations like these above and there are many different answers as
well. We think that the question of what is real and what is fictional
has a deeper meaning. If we stop asking ourselves what is real and what
is not, what we discern and what we overlook, will we be able to say who
we are and what world we really live in?

The entries can be sent by electronic mail until 20th July, 2011 to the
following address: artmoves@tlen.pl

Find more information about the Competition and Festival at:
www.artmovesfestival.org

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