Competitions
Trans Artists' selection of interesting upcoming competitions you can join world wide (in order by deadline). Check this page on a regular base since deadlines are passing quickly!
Viral Video Award 2010
Viral Video is looking for films with a message. All entries should be aiming to communicate either a promotional, ideational, political or original message. They cannot be older than two years and should have already been successful at spreading the net, or at least be on the way to doing just that. Submit your film online if: it has been especially made for the internet; it was made with the aim to spread virally or has already been virally distributed; it is either endorsing or opposing an image, an institution, a brand, a product or an idea.
- Deadline: September 11
- Public online voting from Oct. 18 to Nov. 18
- Awards from 500 to 1000 euro
Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 Public Art Call-to-Artists
The Winnipeg Arts Council invites professional artists to submit expressions of interest for a permanent, contemporary artwork using elements of water and light in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is a national and international competition for a major artwork to mark the designation of Winnipeg as the Cultural Capital of Canada for 2010, a program of the Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage. This project will be the largest public artwork to be undertaken in Winnipeg to date. Winnipeg's Public Art Program includes permanent installations in several locations in Winnipeg, a unique community art initiative and an artist-in-residence component.
- Budget: $575.000
- Deadline for application: September 13
- Click here for full details.
Szpilman Award
The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations. The prize winner receives the Jackpot Stipendium. This scholarship consists of three parts: a challenge cup, 10 days of accommodation in Cimochowizna (Poland), and a sum of money in cash.
- Deadline: September 30
Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra 2010
International Calling For Contemporary Music Score
The competition is open to composers of all ages and nationalities. The required composition is a work for the whole ensemble as follows:
1 flute / 1 oboe / 1clarinet in Bb / 1 basson / 2 horn / 2 trumpet in Bb
2 trombone / 1 Timpani and strings (5 - 4 -3 - 2 - 1).
The duration of the work must be stated on the score and be from 7 to 10 minutes.
The composition must be unpublished, never have been performed or broadcast in public nor have been awarded a prize under its present or other title.
- Deadline: score must be received by September 30
- For more information please contact condczoj[AT]hanmail.net
U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again
The name U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again refers to a line on the Berlin Underground which was originally conceived in the 1930s but has never been finished. The organisers, the Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin, are looking for situation specific and/or participatory ideas, visions, experiments and interventions which address the future meaning of 'public' in Berlin's public Underground Network. They can range from being short, interventionistic artistic reactions to specific occurrences on the Underground to being long term collaborations aimed at creating sustainable relationships to Underground staff and/or users over a number of years.
- A total budget of 30.000 Euro for artist's fees, production, travel and accommodation is available for a maximum of four projects to be realised from May to December 2011.
- Deadline for applications is October 1st
Arte Laguna International Prize
The Cultural Association MoCA and Arte Laguna announce the new edition of the Prize. The competition is open to all artists and includes the following sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, video art and performing art. There is no specific theme. The final exhibition will displays 110 finalists. Three Artist in Residence (at Claudio Buziol Foundation in Venice, Zauli Museum in Faenza, Art Stays in Ptuj Slovenia) will be assigned to artists chosen among the finalists.- Deadline: November 16
- Final exhibition: Venice, March 2011.
- The total value of the prizes is 100.000 euro
