[artinfo] Open call for artists: Liquid Interfaces at Gothenburg University

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Open call for artists: Liquid Interfaces

Public Art Agency Sweden

Application deadline: May 21, 2023, 11:59pm

The Public Art Agency Sweden has released an open call for artists to 
develop a semipermanent digital project. The art programme Liquid 
Interfaces: Open/Closed Gateways is related to the renovation and 
construction of Gothenburg University's Faculty of Fine, Applied and 
Performing Arts in Gothenburg.

The underlying idea is that colocation of different artistic 
educations in the same building will strengthen collaboration between 
the faculty's departments and facilitate new fusions, artistic 
expressions, and social interactions. Moreover, this venue has the 
ambition to become a central public space in Gothenburg, where anyone 
can meet to exchange knowledge and experience art.

Taking as its starting point the prospect of interdisciplinary 
collaboration, new connections and lowered thresholds, the focus of 
the curatorial vision Liquid Interfaces: Open/Closed Gateways 
provides a ground for critical encounters regarding orders, 
thresholds, and passages. Various types of more or less defined 
boundaries are a constant presence in the public sphere, whether they 
are physical or not. Interfaces are fluidly connecting different 
worlds, fluctuating between openness and closedness.

While the new building is being built, an opportunity is given 
through the digital art project to challenge terms such as 
thresholds, boundaries, and interfaces and to explore visions of 
interdisciplinarity, interaction and collaboration. The digital art 
project can be integrated within the multifaceted environment of the 
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of 
Gothenburg and deepen an understanding of and even challenge various 
forms of connections.

Following Swedish regulations, the procurement of an artist is 
organised through an open call. The first step is a call for 
registrations where applicants are requested to submit a notification 
of interest. Among the received notification of interests, two to 
three artists/artist collectives will then be appointed and 
commissioned to develop a proposal. Finally, among the two to three 
proposals for artistic intervention, one artist/artist collective 
will be awarded an art-project contract for the digital art project.

The remuneration for developing a proposal is 80,000 SEK excluding 
VAT for each of the two to three appointed artists/artist 
collectives. The budget frame for the implementation of the proposal 
is 2,000,000 SEK, excluding VAT (awarded to one artist/artist 
collective).

Notifications of interest must be submitted no later than May 21, 
2023 (by 11:59pm CEST).

Please find further information and all the necessary instructions to 
apply here:
https://publicartagencysweden.com/new-sketch-assignment-for-a-digital-artistic-intervention-for-the-university-of-gothenburg/