[spectre] 🕳️ Postponed Until Further DEADLINE EXTENDED 🕳️

[Marijn Bril]

🕳️ Postponed Until Further Notice DEADLINE EXTENDED [not Until Further
Notice but until December 1st] 🕳️

The Wrong Biennale n°5 embassy/pavilion *Postponed Until Further Notice* is
inviting (internet/digital) artists, conceptual designers, meme artists,
poets, writers, critics, and other makers and thinkers to become part of a
collaborative experiment.

*Deadline extended**:* Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 23:59h

The 'We're open!' board on the sidewalk is retired to the storage room. The
projectors and speakers in the exhibition space are shut off, the lights
are dimmed, the alarm is turned on and the front door is locked.
Eventually, the institution has no other choice but to share on social
media that she regrets to inform that the event is cancelled and pending
further notice.

*Postponed Until Further Notice* reflects the recurring phenomena of the
past 20 months in which (cultural) events were cancelled abruptly and had
to be postponed to a later moment. Countless things, ideas and moments have
been cancelled and forgotten or brought back to life at a later date and
time, in a similar form but in a different context. The later version might
make sense: people are happy to finally get together for that [thing]
they've been waiting for. Or the occasion is gone, forever lost and cannot
be recreated at a later time. Personal or political crisis, production
setbacks, procrastination, changing social-cultural values or simply a need
for rest can lead to delay. The project is an ode to the feeling of
suspension and leans into the inconvenience of indecisiveness.

As such, the project embodies its own near future, freezing a state or
condition that never happened. How long can this condition last is unclear,
its seemingly limitless duration provides both anxiety and solace. *Postponed
Until Further Notice* meditates on its own absence. The project builds on
Robert Barry's *Closed Gallery* (1969), in which the artist sent
invitations for gallery openings stating 'During the exhibition the gallery
will be closed’. The work suggested that something was missing while
simultaneous manifesting presence and absence.

And even though the project is *Postponed Until Further Notice*, other
conditions may form in its shadows. As the event was always a socio-spatial
occurrence, it might mutate into other forms of existence. The comment
section under the institutional statement of postponement might become a
place of discussion. The bench in front of the closed institution's
entrance could become a place of pilgrimage for the disciples of the arts.
Its state of being postponed might become the project itself.


*Looking for poetic, philosophical, and conceptual responses*This open call
welcomes anybody to submit a philosophical, conceptual, or poetic response.
The work may relate to (but is not limited to) notions of time, suspension,
anticipation, presence/absence, and counter-strategies. The medium is free
of choice, as long as it plays into the thematics. *Postponed Until Further
Notice* won't take place in a classical exhibition space, but rather
searches for alternative presentation formats. As such, works that can be
presented online or in urban environments are preferred – think of a
digital sculpture, GIF, video, website, essay, haiku, a sound piece,
interactive performance, or an intervention in the city. If the work
consists of a proposal for a performance or process-based work, please be
as clear as possible about the how/what/where/why/… .

Artists as co-curators
*Postponed Until Further Notice* aims to become a collaborative project
where the selected artists become an essential part of the curatorial
process. In January 2022 the chosen participants will come together in
several online meetings, in which we will curate the selected works
together. We will discuss approaches to and meaning(s) of postponement,
relationships between works, as well as contextualisation and presentation
strategies of the project. The final form of the project will be decided
together with the selected artists.

*Open call*
Please send your work by e-mail to hello at marijnbril.work
<%20hello at marijnbril.work> no later than December 1, 2021 at 23:59h
(including a brief description of the work and why it’s a good fit for
Postponed Until Further Notice). Selected artists are paid a variable fee
of €100 – €500, depending on the nature of the work. In addition, the
selected artists receive €400 each for being part of the co-curation
process. If you have any questions, want to test your ideas, ping-pong on
the thematics, or just want to say hi – feel free to reach out via mail
<%20hello at marijnbril.work> or Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/postponed_until_further_notice/>.

This project is curated by Marijn Bril <https://marijnbril.work/> and part
of The Wrong Biennale <https://thewrong.org/>. It is made possible by the
kind support of Creative Industries Fund NL
<https://stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/>.

www.postponed-until-further-notice.com
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