CALL FOR ARTISTS: ALCHEMIC CITIES | FIRE.AIR.WATER.EARTH
International Video Art Limousines Festival New York City
Deadline: September 15, 2018
ITSLIQUID GROUP is proud to present ALCHEMIC CITIES | FIRE.AIR.WATER.EARTH – NEW YORK CITY, an innovative Video Art exhibition that will be presented in a very experimental art space, a limousine, which will run around the streets of the blooming New York City, destination of curators and collectors from all over the world. Passengers will be transported by video art for 4 hours on October 2018, following an amazing tour of the city that will start from the Rockefeller Center (620 Fifth Avenue, 50th @ Fifth, New York, NY 10020) and it will finish at The Standard Hotel (848 Washington St, New York, NY 10014).
ALCHEMIC CITIES | FIRE.AIR.WATER.EARTH is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (founder and director of THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, ITS LIQUID GROUP and LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS).
Selection is open to video art and short films. Artists, photographers, video makers and filmmakers are invited to submit their works by e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com
The exhibition ALCHEMIC CITIES | FIRE.AIR.WATER.EARTH is focused on the concept of transformation of human body and contemporary cities, starting from the alchemical processes, that aim to purify the nature elements: earth, air, water and fire. The alchemists, recognized as the ancestors of modern chemists, worked to discover the way the world is made and to modify its structure. The mysterious practice of alchemy always influenced the art and the artists from all the centuries. Alchemists as well as artists, architects, designers, videomakers, film directors, dancers, musicians, are fascinated by this concept and they all work to discover and create different possible worlds.
The environment is no longer conceived as a container of human life, but as an extension of the body, that produces changes in the human behavior. We invite artists to share their researches about the natural elements and the creative processes of mixing and changing the urban place and the body space, using the balance between them as a field of an artistic transformation.
Deadline for applications is September 15, 2018 (11.59 PM of your local time)
