Proposal
In the 21st century, people have their own ideas about how they want and try to look like, and realizations of how they actually look. With new advances in technology, the hope for a new physical appearances can become reality: from a tattoo process, changing eye color, to intensive cosmetic surgery, and/or body modification. This controversial issue affects us, our ideas about “beauty” and “human,” and often surface in contemporary art issues. The “Renewal vs. Revulsion” exhibition explores positives/negatives of body reconstruction, as well the new “norm” on ways we perceive people’s body image.
Renewal vs. Revulsion will be curated by Panida Suwannawisut and Rebecca Smith. Our focus will be on artworks and designs from different art mediums which concentrate on conflicting body images, controversial body issues, and perceptions of the human body from an everyday viewer. Some curiosities, like mutant creatures, fantasy characters, cross dressers, distortion of the form, and prosthetic ‘body architects’ will be exhibition highlights. Renewal vs. Revulsion will not be shown in only one space, but as a traveling show with different ‘pop-up’ locations (preferably starting location at _gaia studio gallery or NYFA Event Space).
We plan to create a short web-series that includes behind-the-scene shots of different conversations with random people we pose questions to and artists we will eventually meet. Our aim is to provoke and inspire a viewer’s love for their own skin and embrace changes of time and technology.
We will compile the remainder of photographs, interview footage, and artwork in a small catalog representing all the work that goes into the show, plus a behind-the-scenes peek at the exhibition’s curating process.
Our target time span for forming the exhibition is from now to May 10th, 2013. We plan to revise and re-stage the exhibition annually. Our focus will continuously change every year due to different approaches. We expect to send out ‘artist-calls’ to professional artists, student artists, and amateurs as soon as possible.
We are seeking artwork that not exceed 60”x60”. Media art and video installation is welcomed. Sculptures cannot be any taller than 60”. Submission deadline is on May 3rd or until the space is filled.
Deadline is May 3rd or until space is filled.
for "Renewal and Revulsion" by Panida Suwannawisut and Rebecca Smith
We have already emailed a few artists and these are a few of the works we are working towards including in our show:
"Dysmorphic Disorder" by Vincent Hui
"Chromatella" by Sergio Lopez
"Untitled" by Michelle Doll
"Flesh Composition 7" by Matt Lahm
"Miss Millinery" by Heather Gabel
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