With each issue, artists, writers, musicians and creators of all descriptions are invited to explore a given theme, and to respond with an object-based, serialised work. we want to provide artists with a platform which is indiscriminate when it comes to place, gender, career and is able to focus purely on conceptual engagement. even though the internet has quickly become a very useful tool for artists to share their work and ideas, we felt it necessary to bring art back into a three-dimensional realm. influenced by mail art, the Fluxus movement and DIY art books and Zines, REPLIKA aims to become a highly aesthetic collectable item which explores a wide variety of themes and concepts throughout each of it's issues. Each Issue will consist of ten Boxes in lieu of a book. each box containing Ten works by Ten different artists. as each piece is replicated manually, each of the 10 boxes vary slightly and are a unique collectable. the box is accompanied by a catalogue in which each work is photographed and itemised along with further text from the artists, the curators and further submitters. The catalogue is also able to stand alone and will sold separately at our exhibition and online. Both the edition and the catalogue are self published and handmade. in our first issue, the theme explored is: ECHO
ECHO
A close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event. The repetition in structure and content of one speaker’s utterance by another. The deliberate introduction of reverberation into a sound recording. A sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener. A reflected radio or radar beam. A characteristic that is suggestive of something else. A person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another. A result of imitation. Throughout the works, motifs recur. Such as the mirror and refections, Traces of past lives, shifts between cyber space and actual existence, and the lover who torments without requital. OPEN CALL to our second Issue: Ellipse
Ellipse:
In relation to a life cycle or imperfect loop. Circularity, rotundity, cycle, ring, areola, roundlet, annulus, bracelet, armilla, ringlet, eye, loop, wheel, orb, orbit, belt, cordon, sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland, crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, necklace, collar, noose, lariat, ellipse, oval, ovule, ellipseoid, cycloid, Semicircle, sector, Egg-shaped, Pear-shaped, sphere. Artists may respond in any media as long as the work result is object based. This includes print, painting, photography, performance documentation, video, drawing, writing, sound, sculpture, found object etc. Applicants should complete and return the submission form along with any images or diagrams of proposed works. Each work must be reproduced in an edition of ten. Slight variations due to reproduction processes are encouraged. Each work is to be no greater than 20cmx26cmx5cm. Application deadline is SEPTEMBER 10, 2016. You can download the application form here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5D-GiDh8MqqZHVyMUtieFdhT1k
