The Arts Converge
Contemporary Art and Asian Musical Traditions
The arts give us an arena where the past and present can converge, sight and sound can converse, and individual experience can speak for a universal experience.
We wish to celebrate interactions between cultural traditions and the individual modern artist, and between music and the visual arts by presenting a variety of contemporary artists' reactions to traditional music sounds or traditional cultural soundscapes. This exhibition will form a contemporary counterpart to an exhibition scheduled to run concurrently at the NIU Art Museum featuring Burmese traditional music instruments. Both exhibitions will have a rich program of related concerts, lectures, workshops, and performances organized in collaboration with the NIU School of Music and international conferences on Cambodia Studies, Burma Studies, and Thai Studies to be held at NIU.
You are invited to participate in this exhibition by submitting up to five works for consideration. Regional, national, and international artists and designers are all encouraged.
Diverse media are welcome; visual art, installations, and performance art are all capable of offering exciting new perspectives using traditional music. We hope to receive a variety of interpretations, whether traditional, postmodern, philosophical, political, or outlandish in expression. Accepted works will be those that are thoughtful, emotionally impacting, masterfully rendered, and unique.
To Submit:
Submit materials online, by emailing them to the following email address: theartsconverge@gmail.com
The following materials are required no later than MARCH 1, 2012 for each entry:
-statement, including description of art and explanation of creative concept, particularly the convergence or relationship of art to music/sounds in your work (no longer than 1,250 words)
-digital photo (high resolution-300dpi, TIFF recommended, white background); include audio or video clips, or additional photos as needed to represent your work effectively (please use compression software if video clips are unusually long)
-vita, including preferred contact information
Feel free to email us questions
at theartsconverge@gmail.com
The exhibition will be held at the Jack Olson Gallery, School of Art,
at Northern Illinois University, between 4 SEPTEMBER – 12 OCTOBER 2012.
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