You heard right! Round Two is now open for Expressions of Interest to participate in artRiot’s inaugural exhibition/performance event as part of the Sydney Fringe. Round One closed with around 12 awesome submissions and we’re asking you to top what we saw/heard/conceptualised & get more radical.

Round Two closes midnight Mon, 9th August.

Banksy steam roller stencil

The exhibition will run for two weeks from 11 – 26 Sept 2010 upstairs at the Annandale Hotel. Opening night on Saturday 11 August will include performance works. Artists offered a place in the exhibition will be asked to contribute a $30 entrance fee to go toward making everything happen but anyone is more than welcome to apply for a fee waiver if you can’t afford it.

We know at least a few rockin’ artists out there who were disappointed they missed the cut-off for Round One, so Round Two will be open once again artworks in any medium addressing any social, environmental or political issue. However, works in mediums not currently covered by artists short-listed in Round One will be given special consideration. We’d like to hone in a bit on performance based works (dramatic, musical, spoken for example), radical craft and stencilling & culture jamming. We think through diversity we can create the best and most active experience possible – showing that contemporary Sydney artists can change the world.

Riot Cross Stitch by Cross-stitch ninja on Flickr

Speaking of changing the world, if you submitted in Round One, don’t panic, you’ll be hearing from us soon! One thing we’re going to be discussing with artists who have been short-listed in Round One is creating mobilisation opportunities through the exhibition – in other words, for artRiot, it’s not enough to just have a awesome artwork about edgy, topical political issues – we want you to show us how you think your work can directly motivate an action, ideally at the point of contact. For example, could you fire up the audience with a song about locking on to a coal train then pass round a sheet for people to pledge to take part in a direct action to halt climate change? Could you convey the plight of refugees in Australian detention centres through painting and couple that with a stand providing paper, pens & talking points for your audience to write letters on the spot to their local paper condemning the racist policies of the Federal Government? Could your artwork run right off the wall and into the streets? After all, this is artRiot.

Peaceful Protest by Rainforest Action Network on Flickr

And that brings me to the selection criteria. In the interests of fair judging, each submission will be judged by at least three people from the artRiot collective on the following weighted criteria:

1. The proposed work shows a genuine capacity to directly motivate an action or change people’s behaviour with the intention of radical social change. Judged out of 10.
2. The proposed work demonstrates strong artistic ability relevant to the medium – eg. aesthetically, musically or linguistically. Judged out of 10.
3. The proposed work has the potential to integrate well with other accepted proposals while differing enough in form, subject matter or medium to add to the diversity of the overall exhibition. Judged out of 5.

Enough chin-wagging, get your submissions in!
Click here to fill out the Expression of Interest Form.

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