OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS’ PROJECTS

DEADLINE: May 14, 2023

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2023: DRESS, scheduled for October 13-15, 2023, curated by Gretchen Vitamvas, invites proposals for its eighteenth annual outdoor public visual and performance art festival taking place on select blocks each day along 14th Street, Manhattan.

We invite applications from artists to participate in AiOP 2023: DRESS. Artists who are using dress as a medium, and interested in rethinking 14th street as a runway to present, walk, and pose may apply. Works may take the form of garments, textile, fashion design, costume, performance, sculpture and installation.

Everyday we get dressed. Our clothing communicates information about our work, activities and aspirations. Dress can be prescribed or intentionally personal. It can be practical, protecting our bodies from the weather or worksite; or fanciful, making a statement. We dress to provoke, to go unnoticed, to align with a social group, to conform (whether by choice or requirement), to challenge, to fit in, to be admired, to aspire, to protest, and to express identity. How do you know what people do for a living? How recently have they come to this country? Are they tourists? We regard each other and make judgments about gender, class, work, lifestyle, social group, and cultural heritage based on appearance.

Every October for the past eighteen years, AiOP has presented a multi-disciplinary public art festival in Manhattan (14 years on 14th Street). Creating a test-site for the possibilities and limitations of public space, AiOP is a gift to the popular imagination of New York City. The ethos is one of sharing, openness, and accessibility. The festival is produced without a budget, and taken up completely on the initiative of the organizers and participating artists. Permissions are not sought. AiOP is collaborative, horizontal, and agile.

AiOP 2023 Curator: Gretchen Vitamvas
AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham
Curatorial Manager: Sarah Starpoli
Curatorial Assistant: Tasha Dougé
Social Media Manager: Flora Lin
Designer/Developer: Laurie Waxman
Communications Consultant: Aga Sablinska
Advisor: Furusho von Puttkammer

For guidelines and application form please see the sidebar →

Art in Odd Places is a program of GOH Productions, a nonprofit organization, and is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.