Ball Sports, Call for Proposals
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Ball Sports AT AVA
Curated by Kirsty Cockerill
2007
Monday, 12 November to Friday, 23 November
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
In the run up to the 2010 World Cup, all eyes focus on sport. Art and sport are commonly perceived as polar opposites, drawing different audiences, engaging with different notions of culture. Ball Sports calls for artists to engage sport as a starting block for the interrogation of serious and not so serious social dynamics.
This will take the form of a curated exhibition at AVA and will employ all four gallery spaces.
CONDITIONS APPLY. Please keep this notice if you wish to enter.
1. This will be a selected exhibition. The artworks for exhibition will be selected by the Director of the AVA from the proposals received via e-mail or on disc in the format of Word Documents and the images as jpg's. The Directors decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Forward submissions to avaart@iafrica.com or post to P.O. Box 15218 Vlaeberg 8018.
2. The work may be in any medium as long as it is an original artwork.
3. You do not need to be a member of AVA to submit work, but if your work is selected for exhibition, you will need to pay AVA subs for 2007, if not already paid. Subs are R75 per person or R30 for students or pensioners.
4. All works must be for sale.
5. All proposals must be accompanied by relevant details, i.e. name of artist, title of work, medium, date, and selling price which must include AVA's commission of one third of the selling price, artist's CV and images of the proposed work.
6. All entries must be ready to be exhibited /hung. If the display of a work is complicated, the artist will be required to set up his/her own piece.
7. Closing date for submissions is the 15 October 2007. The selected works will need to be delivered to the AVA by 8 November 2007 at 1:00pm.
8. The exhibition opening will be on Tuesday the 13 November at 6 pm and run until Friday, 23 November at 1, after which the exhibited works must be collected, preferably on the same day before 5 pm.
A preview of the exhibition will be by special invitation only on Monday the 12 November 2007.
9. All artwork is exhibited/left in the gallery at the artists' own risk as AVA's insurance policy does not cover theft, burglary or accidental damage.
Curated by Kirsty Cockerill
2007
Monday, 12 November to Friday, 23 November
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
In the run up to the 2010 World Cup, all eyes focus on sport. Art and sport are commonly perceived as polar opposites, drawing different audiences, engaging with different notions of culture. Ball Sports calls for artists to engage sport as a starting block for the interrogation of serious and not so serious social dynamics.
This will take the form of a curated exhibition at AVA and will employ all four gallery spaces.
CONDITIONS APPLY. Please keep this notice if you wish to enter.
1. This will be a selected exhibition. The artworks for exhibition will be selected by the Director of the AVA from the proposals received via e-mail or on disc in the format of Word Documents and the images as jpg's. The Directors decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Forward submissions to avaart@iafrica.com or post to P.O. Box 15218 Vlaeberg 8018.
2. The work may be in any medium as long as it is an original artwork.
3. You do not need to be a member of AVA to submit work, but if your work is selected for exhibition, you will need to pay AVA subs for 2007, if not already paid. Subs are R75 per person or R30 for students or pensioners.
4. All works must be for sale.
5. All proposals must be accompanied by relevant details, i.e. name of artist, title of work, medium, date, and selling price which must include AVA's commission of one third of the selling price, artist's CV and images of the proposed work.
6. All entries must be ready to be exhibited /hung. If the display of a work is complicated, the artist will be required to set up his/her own piece.
7. Closing date for submissions is the 15 October 2007. The selected works will need to be delivered to the AVA by 8 November 2007 at 1:00pm.
8. The exhibition opening will be on Tuesday the 13 November at 6 pm and run until Friday, 23 November at 1, after which the exhibited works must be collected, preferably on the same day before 5 pm.
A preview of the exhibition will be by special invitation only on Monday the 12 November 2007.
9. All artwork is exhibited/left in the gallery at the artists' own risk as AVA's insurance policy does not cover theft, burglary or accidental damage.
posted by Robert Sloon at 12:53 PM
12 Comments:
2010 is balls
someone needs to make a photo of what Greenpoint main road will look like when Fifa forces all businesses within 1km of the stadium to close down on match days, and remove their signage.
They may not actually do this, but their contract gives them the right to. it will also be illegal for anybody else to sell or advertise anything whatsoever along the official route from the airport to the stadium.
Contact Justin Nurse, through 'The Bid Issue', he has the details, and is also trying to get the citizenry to fight back.
We are being fucked up the arse, and we have to pay for the facilities. How much does something like the stadium cost?
Sorry, that's 'The Big Issue'
Oh, and another thing we have to pay for is the policing that it will take to protect Fifa's rights while they rip us off. They have also required, in their contract, that should they need to prosecute anyone for advertising or selling anything, or in any way profiting by the World Cup, or using any of the words or phrases they own, the South African law courts need to made immediately available to them, meaning that our own judicial system can just grind to a halt while they fuck us over.
Well, Anonymous, sounds like you are really informed about this. Why don't you turn it into a proposal for the Ball Sports show? Protest can be quite a sporting activity.
I'm too fuckin lazy
...but I'll tell you this. The projected cost of the stadium in Greenpoint (projected by the people who want to make this project look as doable as possible) is R2 950 000 000.00. More realistically, it will be somewhere upward of R3 500 000 000.00. This for a city that couldn't afford to fund Cape '07.
The big Fifa cunt, Sepp Blatter, decreed that Greenpoint has to be the site, because it would look good on TV. The local govt and CCC objected violently, and people have written to him begging him not to cripple our town, but he is unmoveable. The stadium will be as large as the biggest stadia in Europe, where it is a short hop for thousands of rich Europeans to get there.
What kind of hold does Fifa have over people? The minutes of the crucial meetings were not kept.
Sepp Blatter's career at Fifa is dogged with charges of fraud, paying people to vote for him, the whole sordid lot. Try googling "Sepp Blatter corrupt". This is the pig who has a hold on our town.
This is such a ball-ache - why dont you rather send letters to the DA Daily (commonly known as the Argus)? Your rantings seems slightly out of place in this forum, which consist mainly of politically disinterested, lazy-ass, nihilistic, second year, white male fine art students.
Actually I'm being paid by Kirsty Cockerill to try and make her show a tiny bit more interesting
riveting...
Actually you spell that rivetting. But thanks for the compliment. I love to come across artists who are interested in life. It's so contemporary.
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