OPEN CALL // Metamodernism ❤️🔥
3 artists will be exhibited on 1200 screens all over Belgium in July via @artcrush 🎉
(Value of $70,000 per artist)
Curated by @erikarand
To Enter:
🌸 Reply with your submission (details below)
🌸 Tag 2 friends
🌸 Retweet
🌸 Follow @artcrush & @erikarand
Deadline: June 11th, 11:59 PM PST
🦋 SUBMISSION DETAILS:
– Minted or unminted art, no need to mint for this
– Please submit up to 4 works in one tweet
– Art will be exhibited on 5 different screen dimensions, in case you'd like to submit in any of these aspect ratios: 2540x1020, 1426x708, 708x708, 460x190, 994x1566
– Still or video works (mp4, 6 sec / 25 fps)
– Artistic collaborations ok
🦋 CONTENT GUIDELINES, per Belgian public display rules: No violence, weapons, gory content, brand appearances, politics, drugs, alcohol, swear words, religion, nudity, or red or green flashing lights (for traffic safety reasons).
🦋 WHAT IS METAMODERNISM?
From "Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction" by Luke Turner:
"Whereas postmodernism was characterised by deconstruction, irony, pastiche, relativism, nihilism, and the rejection of grand narratives (to caricature it somewhat), the discourse surrounding metamodernism engages with the resurgence of sincerity, hope, romanticism, affect, and the potential for grand narratives and universal truths, whilst not forfeiting all that we’ve learnt from postmodernism.
Thus, rather than simply signalling a return to naïve modernist ideological positions, metamodernism considers that our era is characterised by an oscillation between aspects of both modernism and postmodernism. We see this manifest as a kind of informed naivety, a pragmatic idealism, a moderate fanaticism, oscillating between sincerity and irony, deconstruction and construction, apathy and affect, attempting to attain some sort of transcendent position, as if such a thing were within our grasp. The metamodern generation understands that we can be both ironic and sincere in the same moment; that one does not necessarily diminish the other."
(More on the theme of metamodernism) ↓