Call for Curators
10 December 2018 –11 January 2019
In its sixth edition, /si:n/ festival of video art and performance joins the efforts of six partner Palestinian cultural institutions, namely the A. M. Qattan Foundation, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Eltiqa Group, Shababek for Contemporary Art and the Ramallah Municipality.
The objective of the 2019 festival is to allow joint site-specific interventions, through video art and performances, in the cities of Gaza, Bethlehem and Ramallah. This edition will select a joint urban commercial street originally designed to attract consumers with shop windows and flashy advertisement to convert into spaces for video art and performances. The curated project simultaneously compiles the efforts of the six institutions in one location while connecting their work through a curatorial theme that knits between the projects presented. The theme and curatorial direction should give the entire street a unifying visual environment that predominates the commercial, consumerist one.
Accordingly, the six institutions invite curators to submit their concept papers for the festival’s sixth edition, considering the following:
- A curator or a team of curators can apply online, no later than 11 January 2019. Please click here for the application. The duration of the post is five months, from March–July 2019.
- The online application includes:
- Biography, 100 words
- Concept paper that explains the unifying theme, 300–450 words
- Public tours schedule (minimum three)
- Workshops related to the theme (minimum two)
- The festival will take place for one week, between May/July 2019.
- Experience is needed in at least one public interventions-based project.
- Stipend of $4,500, negotiable based on the experience.
The /s:in/ Festival for Video Art and Performance was established in 2009 by a group of culture and art institutions. The festival is set to create spaces for exhibition and research in video art and performance works and encourage new forms of vision and interaction. Through cooperation between partner institutions, the festival is tailored to introduce new formulas of collective cultural and artistic work. It seeks to challenge geographical, political and financial barriers and expand the festival’s geographical scope and public outreach to various areas across Palestine. Partner institutions believe that the Palestinian society needs to be part of contemporary global artistic dialogue and practice by presenting art works of international and local artists, who interact, converse, engage and change artistic and visual practices.
