Project: Tara for Women & Art Madrid 2024

Call Closed

Tara For Women joins as a collaborator for the development of the ART MADRID'24 activities program. Intercesiones By Tara For Women will be the performance and live arts program with which the performance cycle of 4 female artists will be carried out with visual exercises that allow us to challenge new phenomena that have become tools to understand ourselves as a society.

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair celebrates its nineteenth edition from March 6 to 10, 2024 at the Galería de Cristal at the Palacio de Cibeles. During Madrid's art week, Art Madrid becomes a stage and exhibition platform for artists and galleries.

Tara For Women and Art Madrid'24 , focused on making visible the work of artists who are dedicated to performance practices, draw attention to the need to generate works whose social impact contributes to raising awareness of the dangers that our society faces. Thus, Art Madrid turns its headquarters into a dissemination platform to invite four artists who work in performance to participate as guest artists within its program of activities.

Bases for participation and selection of performance proposals:

Performance proposals to be submitted must be sent in a single document in PDF format to the following email addresses:  info@art-madrid.com  with a copy to the email arte@taraforwomen.org

Projects will be received by the organization until Friday, November 9,  2023 (Friday included).

The email must indicate the following subject: Intercessions. Performance and Live Arts Program. Art Madrid ́24. Contemporary Art Fair.

The structure for the presentation of performance proposals that must be included in the PDF document is as follows:

  1. Name and surname of the artist applying, ID or Passport, place of residence, email, mobile phone, social networks and profession.

  2. Curriculum vitae, summary of artistic career and statement.

  3. Letter stating the reasons for applying for the call.

  4. Development of the performance proposal to be presented in (PDF document) and which must include:

  • Title of the performance project.

    1. Project description.

    2. Justification of the exhibition project through the symbolic and aesthetic discourse that is developed with the action presented. Conceptualization of the proposal.

    3. Objectives, work methodology, budget breakdown and work schedule in its two phases: production and staging.

    4. It must be indicated whether the project has other sources of funding in addition to the budget allocated by the organizers.

    5. Images and/or sketches describing the proposal (max. 12 images in JPG format.)

Brief description:

*Intercession: Action and effect of interceding for the good of others.

Intercessions. Performance and Live Arts Program. Art Madrid´24. Contemporary Art Fair. This call is for female artists living in Spain whose work is framed within the field of performance activity. The main purpose of this call is to support projects that extend into the heterogeneity of artistic paths and proposals that allow challenging the new phenomena that occur within the field of art. Performance in its multiple dramaturgical expressions, especially those that use the body as a vehicle to deconstruct and observe from a critical perspective the relationship of the human being with its natural environment.