Theme: Arizona (SB 1070): License to ILL [American Immigration] works will be displayed July 2-23, 2010 Deadline - June 30, 2010--Opening Reception, July 16, 20106:00pm-10:30pm
Legalized racial profiling in 2010 offers us an
opportunity to evaluate America’s creed-Land of the free.
Arizona’s contemporary effort ‘to discourage illegal
immigration’ conveys that the sentiments offered by Lady Liberty are at
its tipping point. This pending precipice goes to the heart of our democracy, a
democracy based on opportunities for everyone that employs the drive of the rugged
individual. Contemporary racial profiling points to the existence of
an alternative government, similar to an Autocracy- a government that takes
into account Noble birth.
The concept of an America intolerable of immigrants is contrary to its foundation.
A nation of immigrants is what we are. This license to ill (SB
1070) confronts Roland Barthes’s “Death of the author” (1968) head
on. In it, the author does not add to the importance of the text,
image, lyric, concept, or nation-eliminating the value imparted on an object
because of whose collection it is in. While this is concept is used in
contemporary art to bolster the likes of Warhol and Koons, this sentiment like Lady
Liberty is problematic. An accurate discourse would reveal that while
the bourgeois may appropriate and transcend their authorship, it is clear that
this transcendence is not reciprocal to the proletariat. The
proletariat/minority is required to constantly prove it is authentic.
The artists in this
exhibition will challenge these inadequacies, working in Painting, Sculpture,
Photography, Installation, Video, Performance and any media welcome. This exhibition
will explore the breadth of contemporary art. This exhibition is open to all
artists in the United States, 18 years of age or older.
Entries must be original work completed within the last 3 years. A
non-refundable fee of $20 is required for entry. This fee covers up to 3
entries ((money order or Pay Pal - we do not accept personal checks).
*As with all our Exhibitions all artists and mediums are welcomed
including opposing viewpoints-We encourage healthy discourse*
