SOMArts Cultural Center seeks “code breaking” artists to exhibit in one-night-only exhibition, Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, on Saturday, July 23, 2016, 8:30 pm–midnight.
Now entering its sixth year, Night Light blankets SOMArts indoors and out in luminous art installations, including audiovisual performances, performative interventions and digital and cinematic projections. In 2015, 80+ artists participated, drawing a crowd of over 1,500 people.
Night Light’s 2016 curatorial ...
SOMArts Cultural Center seeks “code breaking” artists to exhibit in one-night-only exhibition, Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party, on Saturday, July 23, 2016, 8:30 pm–midnight.
Now entering its sixth year, Night Light blankets SOMArts indoors and out in luminous art installations, including audiovisual performances, performative interventions and digital and cinematic projections. In 2015, 80+ artists participated, drawing a crowd of over 1,500 people.
Night Light’s 2016 curatorial theme, “Breaking the Code,” is informed by and complements SOMArts' Main Gallery exhibition The Black Woman Is God: Reprogramming that God Code, curated by Karen Seneferu, and invites artists of all ages and ethnicities to propose new or existing works that explore, challenge, and explode identity-based preconceptions and assumptions. How do you reinvent, deconstruct, reshape or reclaim identity-based codes that affect how you are perceived or how you are expected to behave? How do you subvert? How do you misbehave?
Proposals must be received through the online form no later than 5pm on Monday, March 14, 2016 to be considered: https://www.tfaforms.com/405563. Artists are encouraged to draft their responses in a separate document as the form will time-out after being open for a significant length of time. If you need technical assistance, or have questions of any kind, please email Carolina Quintanilla at cquintanilla@somarts.org, or call (415) 963-1414, ext 110.
Key Dates and Information:
Monday, March 14, 5pm: Deadline for submissions
Monday, March 21: Artists notified of their application status
Wednesday, May 4, 7–9pm: Meeting with selected artists
Sunday, July 17–Friday, July 22: Artists install
Saturday, July 23, 8:30 pm–midnight: Night Light exhibition + performance party
Saturday, August 6: Curatorial tour of Black Woman is God and BBQ celebration with artists
More information on Night Light can be found here: http://www.somarts.org/callingartistsnightlight2016/
Co-curators Melorra Green and Carolina Quintanilla look forward to receiving your applications!
*"In Her Head," installation by Black Salt Collective, Night Light 2015. Photo by J. Astra Brinkmann.