Deadline:
20.07.2016



Our festival uses billboards in an innovative way. We change their function and use them NOT to present advertisements, but moving and thought-provoking art. We take our species name – Homo sapiens / Thinking man– very seriously. Therefore, we put great emphasis on deepened thinking, reflection and awareness rising. Thinking is very closely related to us, people. When we change our thinking, deepen our awareness and initiate our reflection, we also change the reality we live in.

Our festival encourages both artists and audience to take a good look at themselves and the surrounding reality, for currently, together with rapid economic, social and technological changes, the old system is fading away and the new one has not been clarified yet. So, it is worth considering: what is our point, what is important for us, what do we want our relationships look like? What shape should communities have to allow us to develop and live our own and truly satisfying life?

People invented art thousands of years ago. It appeared together with a wonderful feature of the human brain – abstract thinking. Our ancestors were painting on the cave walls to understand themselves and the reality they were living in. We do the same, using contemporary “walls” that are characteristic for our urban landscape. We use both standard billboards, enormous mega-billboards, mobile billboards and electronic street screens.

We are changing ourselves individually, but being members of communities we influence their shape. Minor communities influence the bigger ones and this way the whole world… is changing.

Artists are invited to prepare an artwork (maximum three pieces) in response to this year’s competition theme Under pressure. How to be yourself in the contemporary oppressive world?


This competition slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. We live under constant pressure: of time, perfection, success, exorbitant requirements. Different pressure groups – politicians, media, corporations, fundamentalists, radicals – exert pressure on us. However, not only they – we also exert pressure on ourselves. Omnipresent pressure and chaos of contradictory messages we receive intensify our fear. Our internal pressure is growing – it tells us to constantly raise the bar, work more and faster, live more intensely. The pressure never stops – we experience it from the cradle to the grave. How to be yourself in such a situation? The advertising message we are bombarded with tells us: be yourself and at the same time be like others and choose this or that product. Is it possible to be yourself and like others at the same time? What does it mean to be yourself? Is it worth being yourself – the only one, unique human being? How to do it in the contemporary oppressive world?

There is no entry fee.

The format of the competition work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff.


Prizes:
Main Award - PLN 5.000
Details:
http://artmovesfestival.org