Curate Archive

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSAL
Submissions accepted: 1 – 15 November 2015

CURATE ARCHIVE is an online residency programme open to artists/curators/cultural practitioners across the globe, which aims to operate as a dialogical structure to enunciate possibilities and impossibilities of working with ‘archive’. This project intends to provide opportunities for a re-presentation of its extensive archive through an online platform and within a curatorial approach.

Since the launch of MOP CAP (Magic of Persia Contemporary Art prize) in 2008, hundreds of portfolios submitted by Iranian artists have established a thought-provoking archive of artworks and text-based materials. As an ongoing project, MOP CAP is generating new data every other year and expanding the archive excessively.

Through CURATE ARCHIVE an artist/curator/writer/researcher will be appointed by MOP Foundation every four months, to reflect upon the existing archive of emerging Iranian artists, encouraging an open exchange of knowledge in the form of an online exhibition, including textual materials and weblogs.

– Submit a proposal for an idea-driven, online group exhibition forming by the MOP CAP Archive, as well as your CV.
– Submissions consist of text up to 1000 words describing the aims and objectives of how to work with archive.
– 3 successful candidates will be given an opportunity to work with this extensive online archive.
– The first online-exhibition will be launched in January 2015.
– Those three successful candidate will receive administrative support from MOP Foundation to mount their exhibitions on MOP CAP website.

For further information contact: fereshte@mopfoundation.com
CURATE ARCHIVE is partly sponsored by British Council.