Open Call: Emerging Concepts Publishing Edition

  • Competition
  • Online
  • Fully Funding Type
  • Ended
http://privateprint.mk
  July 05, 2021

About Opportunity

PrivatePrint's EMERGING CONCEPTS is a new publishing edition that focuses on artistic interpretations and approaches to reflect on social, cultural, and political issues. The platform encourages projects that have art-based and/or theoretical-practical methodology in researching issues of relevance for different communities. Special emphasis is put on the research process which should be driven by direct observation of the concerns and challenges those communities face.

About Organizer

PrivatePrint is a publishing house for art books as well as a studio for interdisciplinary research and practices in contemporary art and graphic design based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Since 2016, they have been editing, creating, and supporting artists' books, artistic and curatorial research projects, artists' writings, and related publications.

Details

 

Who can participate: The call is primarily open to curators, art historians, and artists who are interested in curatorial and interdisciplinary research on the relationship between the arts and social realities

Location: Online

Application details: Submission is free. At the moment of applying, the book projects should already be in a process of development. However, the project should not be completed at the time of application.

Required documents: 

  • Report on the status of the project at the moment of applying including a provisional timeline for completing the work ,
  • A PDF with a presentation of the proposed work ,
  • CV ,
  • bibliography of previous publications if any.

Prize/Award:

  • Up to two projects will be selected and published under PrivatePrint's imprint.
  •  Author/s will receive a total of 10% of the retail price.  

Timeliness/Deadlines: July 5, 2021

Founding type:   publishing and printing costs for the publications will be fully covered by PrivatePrint as well as the layout and project assistance from a graphic designer. 

The book launch event at PrivatePrint Studio, a promotion at art book fairs, and book distribution are also fully organized by PrivatePrint.

Specifications

Opportunity
Competition
Event Location
Online
Deadline
05 July, 2021
Funding Type
Fully
Open to
Worldwide