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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style><i style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">‘Engagement AND Entrapment.’</span></i></b></p>
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screens and Masquerade)</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style><i style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Curator: Diana Ali. </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style><i style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Concept: </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Engagement is a way of capturing
attention, a way of alluring and a way of enticing to possess ownership. We
could implement this as a way of attracting an audience, being drawn into a
system and in turn be captivated. Such methods can include smoke screens,
masquerade and stings. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">We can be engaged in political upheaval
and in contrast engaged to be married. Either way if one shows the willingness
to engage then they are seized, arrested and caught, through an innocent human
desire to absorb and be engrossed. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">What is the ethical concern over this? Is
the viewer guilty for being engrossed in a piece of work that is deemed vulgar
or inappropriate; a guilty pleasure? Is the accused guilty until proven
innocent? Is the artist wrongly committed for a self-indulgent expression? Does
this polarity repel or assist the convicted? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Who:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Israeli based and international artists
are invited to submit work which explores a subversive engagement, use tactics
and trickery to captivate and which contests rules and laws of a system.
Aesthetically, artists should submit work which entices the audience, engages
them in viewing and ultimately entrap them into the work. Will the viewer be
engrossed, cheated or convicted? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Works submitted can include traditional
art forms of photography, painting and sculpture but also the contemporary
processes of interventions, installations and new media and video will be
considered.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Where & When</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">The
exhibition will take place at Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. The dates are
14<sup>th</sup> – 23<sup>rd</sup> August 2014. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">Application</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">To apply please
send up to 6 jpeg images and an approximately 100 word statement about how the
work links to the theme to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:Fringeartsbath-misinformation@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">alidiana@gmail.com </span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Artists will
be notified of acceptance approx. 2 weeks after the closing date and more
details will be provided then. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Please note
that the submission process is free but if artists are selected they are
required to pay a £20 administration fee which covers promotion, marketing and
printing costs. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Deadline for submissions: 30<sup>th</sup> May 2014.<span style> </span></span></b></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Diana Ali<br><br>Visual Artist & Curator, UK<br><a href="http://www.dianaali.com" target="_blank">www.dianaali.com</a> <div><br> <div>Skype: dianaali2artist2curator</div></div><div>
Twitter: Diana Ali@DianaAli22</div></div>
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