Open Call: Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2018
The 6th Interdisciplinary, Site-Specific, Land Art Biennale at Kjerringøy in Northern Norway

                         Time of the Biennale: 03.08 - 12.08 2018
                         Application deadline for proposals is the 20th of August 2017.

Artists working in any media are invited to apply and make place-specific land art projects in the stunning region of Kjerringøy during the week of Friday the 03rd August through Sunday the 12th August 2018. Participants must commit to being on location during the full length of the time period.

WHO CAN APPLY: Artists from different disciplines are invited to create art in and of nature. We encourage interactive work and collaborative projects and also welcome musicians and sound artists, dancers or movement artist, storytellers and writers to apply.
 
OUTLINE: We encourage you to remain open for what the place and landscape has to offer and not come with preconceived plans and ideas. The idea is to explore and interact with the natural and biodegradable materials available and investigate, transform, alter, reflect or commune with these on site. Hence there is no need to bring materials for making the work.  
We expect the selected participants to have respect for the place and its inhabitants, creatures great and small, when choosing their site and making their work.
 
DOCUMENTATION: The process will be documented with photography and video recordings and presented on social media and in the press. On the last day of the Biennale, August the 11th, there will be an opening walk & talk where the artists present their work to the general public. The process and the finished work will also be documented and compiled into an anthology published by K-lab. 

THE JURY:
Per Gunnar Eeg Tverbakk, Artist / curator
Eva Bakkeslett, Artist / curator
Ane Øverås, Artist / initiator of the land art biennale

We look forward to hearing from you!
Yours sincerely,
Ane Øverås

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ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: We offer free main meals and lodging to the selected artists. You will live in a shared house in the village. This place will also serve as our hub for meals, presentations and social gatherings. Cooking will be a communal effort and the main meals are shared, and at the biennales cost.

THE SETTING: Kjerringøy is a place of outstanding natural beauty. The landscape is steeped in wilderness and is breathtakingly beautiful with dramatic mountains, woodlands and marshlands, lowland and highland lakes and a river delta where the valley meets the fjord. The area has a great variety of wild flora and fauna, which makes for a spectacular setting for being and making creative and landbased work.
The population of the Kjerringøy region is scarcely 400 people but attracts many summer visitors. Kjerringøy Land Art is an established biannual event that is very popular amongst locals and tourists alike.

APPLICATIONS
Send proposal before or on Sunday the 20th of august to: ​​[email protected]  
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Include in your application:
1. CV (max 2 A4 pages), a short bio (max 1000 characters) and link to your website.
2. A short (max 3000 character) proposal where you present yourself and your work and outline your motivation for wanting to participate and any ideas you may have for what you want to explore, but do not a project description!
3. Six images of relevant work (not exceeding 2 MB each)

Applicants will get a reply by the 15th of September 2017.
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​At this time we can not offer payment or support for travel to the artists, however we are applying for funding from local and national sources.
Assistants to production and to artists take contact on mail