International Poster Competition: UTOPIA STATION II

International Child Art Foundation (ICAF)

in collaboration with the Haus der Kunst

Utopia: an ideal that has driven mankind since the beginning of time. What will the future bring? What will the world of the future look like? How will we live? These and other questions are the focus of an international series of exhibitions that opened in June 2003 at the much-anticipated Biennale Festival in Venice, Italy. Conceptualized and curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rikrit Tiravanija, the UTOPIA STATION project brings together the work of contemporary artists from different genres.

The International Child Art Foundation (www.icaf.org) complements this concept with a project for children worldwide. Under the motto "Utopia - children envisage and paint their future" the question of "What is the future?" will be answered in in�triguing, funny, whimsical, thought-provoking and interesting ways. The future is, after all, what our children make of it. Whether through photos, drawings, texts or collages, each child will record in his own style, his personal vision of the future. The result: an absorbing selection of regional and culturally specific utopias.

A selection of the work created by the children will be exhibited alongside the utopias of contemporary and renowned artists at the Haus der Kunst (in Munich, Germany) from October 1, 2004 till January 9, 2005. Yoko Ono is expected, among others, at the private viewing. ICAF will invite the nominated children to take part at the opening of the exhibition in Munich, Germany.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Theme:

UTOPIA: The future is what YOU make of it.

Age:

6 to 15 years old

Anything you like: text, pictures, photographs, computer graphics, collage - anything which is suitable for a poster

Format:

Maximum 45 x 60 cm

Submissions will be scanned and printed in poster size for exhibition.

 

Techniques:

 

No restriction

 

Deadline for submissions:

 

July 30, 2004

 

Submission address:

 

ICAF

c/o Elena Janker

Hessstr. 102

80797 Munich

Germany

 

For further information contact:

Elena Janker

germany@icaf.org

 

Please include a completed submission form with your artwork. More information about UTOPIA STATION is located at:

http://www.e-flux.com/projects/utopia/index.html

 

 

International Competition: UTOPIA STATION II

International Child Art Foundation (ICAF)

in collaboration with the Haus der Kunst

 

Artwork Submission Form

Please attach this form to the back of artwork

 

I. Child

 

 

First name

Surname

Age

Name of Institution/School

Street

 

City

(with postal code)

 

 

State/Province

Country

Telephone

(with area code)

 

 

 

Email

(important)

 

Contact name (director/ tutor)

 

 

 

I hereby certify and understand that the attached artwork is the original work of the child named above. I further understand that the child's artwork becomes entirely the property of ICAF and can only be returned at the cost of the participant, if requested at the time of submission. I agree that the artwork may be published, exhibited or reproduced by ICAF without compensation. I also understand that the artwork may be sent in reproduced form to other organizations for use, without further authorization or compensation to the artist or parent / guardian.

 

 

 

Name of Parent / Guardian (please print)

Signature

Date

 

 

II. The Artwork - Title and Commentary: