Open Call Faena Prize for the Arts 2016–2017

At Faena Art Center Buenos Aires and at Faena Forum in Miami Beach, FAENA ART fosters new models for performative social interaction that transcends the traditional boundaries of art, science, philosophy and social practice.

Art today has abandoned the notion that vision is reason's vehicle of choice, and space is no longer the privileged model for experience. Under these circumstances, the concept of "duration" (la durée) has become fundamental in the effort to redefine time in a new way that acknowledges its heterogeneous nature. Traditional definitions imposed the homogeneity and reversibility of space upon a temporal dimension that became thus static and petrified in a falsely distinct and repetitive succession of past, present and future. Duration, instead, means "invention, creation of forms, continuous production of that which is entirely new". Rethinking duration challenges us to reflect upon the boundaries of art today.

The fifth edition of the Faena Prize serves as a platform for reflecting on these questions and invites artists from all disciplines to rethink the space of Faena Art Center Buenos Aires from perspectives based on time and duration.

The winning project will be presented at Faena Art Center Buenos Aires with the possibility of being adapted for Faena Forum Miami Beach. The goal is to summon multidisciplinary artists from across the world to imagine site-sensitive works that dialogues not only with the monumental architecture of the building but also with the cultural and urban conditions of our immediate surroundings.

Previous Faena Prize winners are Cayetano Ferrer (2015), Fundación Vairoletto (2013), Martín Sastre (2012). Special mention awards have been granted to Nicolas Gullota (2015), Pablo Rasgado (2015), Santiago Sierra (2013), Sebastián Díaz Morales (2013), and Wilfredo Prieto (2012).

ABOUT FAENA ART

FAENA ART is a nonprofit organization that houses and produces post-disciplinary and time-based experiences. A catalyst for innovative, site-specific and immersive creative practices, FAENA ART is a transformative bridge across the Americas, between the South and the North, the popular and the experimental. At the Faena Art Center Buenos Aires and at Faena Forum in Miami Beach, FAENA ART fosters new models for performative social interaction that transcend the traditional boundaries of art, science, philosophy and social practice. Ximena Caminos chairs and leads FAENA ART.

The Faena Circle, an international advisory committee for FAENA ART programming in Miami, consists of art world luminaries including Carlos Basualdo (Keith L. & Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art), Alex Poots (Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Culture Shed), and Caroline Bourgeois (Curator, Pinault Collection). 

FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS 2016 - 2017

International Jury
Ximena Caminos (coordination)
Faena Art Chair 

Carlos Basualdo
Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Achim Borchardt-Hume
Director of Exhibitions at the Tate Modern

Caroline Bourgeois
Curator of the François Pinault Foundation

Jesús Fuenmayor
Curator 

Victoria Noorthoorn
Director of Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

Open Call
Starting March 14
till August 10.

Artists Worldwide are Encouraged to Submit Proposals