Wish You Were Here
A Call for San Francisco Bay Area Souvenirs. Submission deadline May
31st, 2007.
Events — Spring 2008.
CITY|SPACE is seeking proposals for creative and surprising new SOUVENIRS
of
the San Francisco Bay Area.
A memory for the tourist that arrives and departs, a collection of images
and mementos to take home and revisit, the souvenir encompasses expectation
and recollection of places, people, and adventures.
Although often ignored, souvenirs are ubiquitous representations of the places we inhabit, written in the kitschy dialect of sno-globes and postcards. But souvenirs also navigate more intimate geographies, of personal feeling and memory. Wish You Were Here will reimagine the souvenir's unique position between landscape, memento, and memory.
Subject:
Any aspect or part of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
What:
Propose a creative product reinterpreting the traditional souvenir.
All media acceptable
One-of-a-kind objects, series, or potentially mass-producible objects
are all acceptable.
Who:
Anyone who has visited, dreamed of, read about, or lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Artists of all backgrounds, residents, tourists,
visitors, place experts, and place lovers.
Submission Guidelines:
Entries should be submitted in the form of a single postcard describing
your idea, mailed to:
CITY|SPACE
P.O. Box 77114
San Francisco, CA 94107-7114
Please review the postcard requirements and see examples by clicking HERE.
Timeline:
1. Postcard Entries Submission:
Must be postmarked by May 31, 2007.
Selected Postcards will be included in an online exhibition in Summer
2007.
2. Souvenir Exhibition:
Selected participants will be asked to produce and submit their souvenirs
for participation in a gallery exhibition in the Bay Area, Summer 2007.
Postcard entries will also be exhibited.
Selected participants notified: June 30, 2007
Deadline for delivery of finished souvenirs: July 31, 2007
Things that might happen next:
Publication, traveling exhibition, and other special events.
Things that might happen next: Publication, traveling exhibition, and other special events.
Please feel free to contact CITY|SPACE for more information.
