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2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSION/COLLABORATION

The curatorial team of The 2nd Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness announces its open call for artists, researchers and media archive.

This project, which will be presented in Venice in 2011, is conceptualised and curated by the interdisciplinary collaborative curatorial team: Suzana Milevska, Vladan Jeremic, Rena Raedle and Enisa Eminovska.

The 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is an interdisciplinary collaboration that aims at fostering, producing and presenting contemporary and new media art by Roma artists from different regions and cultures. At the core of the project lies the concept of the contemporary artist as an instantaneous witness of his/her time who is not a passive viewer but rather acts as an active participant in solidarity with the events and people that provoked his/her art work. Such a phenomenon, wherein art becomes a potential agent of social makeover, acquires a completely new prospect in this period of digitalisation and globalisation, and may greatly affect Roma communities.

The project 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is organised by the Roma Media Base – A Skopje based organisation for archiving, producing and presenting contemporary and new media art by Roma artists and communities, and the Biro for Culture and Communication from Belgrade. The project is supported by the Open Society Institute and other organisations and sponsors.

The First Roma Pavilion took place in 2007 as a collateral exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale and was initiated by the Open Society Institute. 

Deadlines:

15 March 2010, for artists/researchers
1 May 2010, for Media Archives

Address: callthewitness@gmail.com

More infos: http://birobeograd.info/callthewitness/