29/11/11
Emdash Award 2012 Call for Entries
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Frieze Art Fair announced today the call for entries to the Emdash Award 2012. The Emdash Award is open to artists living outside of the UK, up to five years from graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or under 35 years of age. The Emdash Award is part of the Frieze Projects programme, produced by Frieze Foundation, supported by the Emdash Foundation and presented in collaboration with Gasworks.
The recipient of the prize will have the unique opportunity to present their work at Frieze Art Fair 2012 to a significant international audience. Additionally the prize will cover production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee, per diems, travel expenses and a studio residency at Gasworks in London from August to October 2012.
Entrance to the award is by open submission and the winner will be selected by an international panel of artists and curators. The selection committee for 2012 will be: Andrea Dibelius (Emdash Foundation), Ryan Gander (Artist), Rowan Geddis (Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks), Udo Kittelmann (Director of the National Gallery, Berlin), Sarah McCrory (Curator, Frieze Foundation), Dr. Matthias Mühling (Curator of the Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich) and Amelie von Wedel (Emdash Foundation).
The closing date for applications is 9 January 2012. The winner of the award will be announced in May 2012.
Proposals for work can take the form of site-specific installations; performance; film; video or print work. Applicants will be judged on the innovative nature of their proposal and its suitability for realisation at Frieze Art Fair.
The Emdash Award winner in 2011 was Anahita Razmi, whose work Roof Piece Tehran was launched at Frieze Art Fair 2011 to significant critical acclaim.
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Editors’ Notes
The Emdash Award
An extraordinary opportunity, the Emdash Award allows the winning artist to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair London, as part of the Frieze Projects programme. The award provides production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000 and a three-month residency at Gasworks including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses.
Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award is open to non-UK based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. For full details on how to apply see: friezefoundation.org/emdash-award
Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is a curated programme of site-specific artist commissions that takes place at Frieze Art Fair together with Frieze Talks and the Emdash Award. In 2012 Frieze Projects will be curated, for the third year, by Sarah McCrory.
Emdash Foundation
Founded by Andrea Dibelius in 2010, and supporting Frieze Projects for the second year, the EMDASH Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to promoting new ideas across disciplines from artistic and cultural projects to scientific research. The em dash indicates a pause to reflect and to review - before a clear statement often taking a new direction, follows. Just like the em dash, the EMDASH Foundation facilitates new ideas, new impulses and new thoughts. EMDASH Foundation’s activities are motivated by philanthropy, a love for the arts and a commitment to supporting new ideas and emerging talent.
Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and includes a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.
Frieze Art Fair, London
Frieze Art Fair, London takes place from 11–14 October 2012 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs featuring over 170 of the most forward-thinking contemporary galleries from Los Angeles to Berlin, London to Beijing.
