For the 2007 Space mission!
SUBMISSION NOW ACCEPTED BY EMAIL ONLY UNTIL APRIL 1st.
For the 2007 season, the McCleave Gallery of Fine Art has merged with SAGSRI (the Suitcase Art Gallery Space Research Institute) developing and launching the world’s first ever SGS (Suitcase Gallery Satellite), ‘flexing our muscles’ becoming the newest contender in the ‘space race’ from our secret location in the Northern Arctic regions of the world somewhere between the USA and the former USSR. After the SGS is launched from Earth into orbit, from it will launch a spacecraft that is controlled by signals that the SGS will relay from Earth. Using solar energy and the gravitational pull of the planets to navigate the solar system, this smaller spacecraft will project signals throughout the solar system in the chance that they will be noticed by other sentient being(s). The SGS will orbit the Earth performing many functions including acting as an ELP (External Launch Pad) and a MCDL (Micro Communications Data Liaison) between our secret headquarters in the Arctic and the Spacecraft.
We are currently seeking artists to work with both SAGSRI and The McCleave Gallery of Fine Art for our 2007 Space Mission. A team of artists will be formed to contribute work that will be launched in the first ever artist-run spacecraft entirely devoted to exhibiting artwork. In an age where we are constantly outdating and updating ourselves, nations and individuals alike obsess over or even fetishize information. Is it possible that this global obsession has turned into information hoarding by the Plutocratic leaders of our Earth's nations? How can we visually construct a common narrative describing our life on earth as we know it that can easily be interpreted by fellow Earthlings and other sentient beings? It is these types of questions that the selected artists may ask, to define our collective behaviors as human beings and communicate to others about our conflicts and resolutions in what we desire as humans, and how our behaviors reflect these desires. As our ‘final frontier’ continues to vanish what fuels our everlasting desire to explore the unknown, while we continue to live our everyday lives? We hope to select a team of artists who are brave with their individual approach to the theme, thus collectively exhibiting a diverse range of artistic approaches and concepts that can be both materialized or digitized and developed at our lab at SAGSRI to withstand the harsh and complex conditions of outer space.
Submissions should include 3-5 low res images (jpg), digital files for support material, a current CV, and a brief artists statement and proposal (2 pages maximum).

SUBMISSION NOW ACCEPTED BY EMAIL ONLY UNTIL APRIL 1st
(Unless postdated on or before March 20th, 2007)

submissions@mccleavegallery.ca