The call for the 2023 edition of 'Temporals' is now open
The goal is to promote public interaction with local artistic experiences.
From 7 March to 29 April at noon, the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) is opening the submission of projects for the new call for the exhibition cycle Temporals.
It is a programme of travelling art exhibitions in the different neighbourhoods of Barcelona to promote actions, activities and experiences that dialogue with the territory closest to the cultural centre and turn authors, managers, facilities, associations and citizens into active cultural agents.
Artists, cultural managers, creators, curators, social agents, communicators and educators from Barcelona and its area of influence can submit proposals.
What type of proposals can be submitted to Temporals?
- Proposals form artists or collectives as well as curators, with no age limit.
- Proposals that fall within the framework of any of the current trends in the visual arts: video art, plastic arts, photography, digital practices, performance, etc.
- Proposals that raise issues related to current affairs and allow the development of contemporary lines of thought will be considered.
- They can also be proposals that establish links between different modalities of knowledge, between art and education, art and science or social innovation and design, etc.
- The proposals submitted must be designed to be able to itinerate and adapt to different exhibition spaces and their contexts.
- It should be noted that they will have to involve the community closest to each civic centre, either during the creation period or when exhibiting.
The participating facilities will be the civic centres Convent de Sant Agustí, Casa Elizalde, Cotxeres de Sants, Casinet d’Hostafrancs, Joan Oliver-Pere Quart, Pere Pruna, Guinardó, Sant Andreu, Farinera, Can Basté, Navas, Baró de Viver and Pati Llimona. You can check the characteristics of the exhibition rooms on the website of each civic centre.
The description of these proposals or complementary actions should only be for guidance and will have to be adjusted when deciding on the neighbourhoods where the project should take place. This will require further joint work between the artists or the author and the technical office of the project, managers of the cultural centres, the figure of the mediator of the exhibition programme and, finally, the social agents of the community.
The finalist proposals will be programmed during 2023 in at least three civic centres. The authors can propose facilities and neighbourhoods to work with, but this preference will not depend on the final itinerary setting.
A Selection Committee of nine people will assess the quality (coherence of the discourse and the creative process), the topicality and relevance of the proposals, the ability to appeal to audiences in the different neighbourhoods, the interest of the associated activities or actions, and their technical feasibility.
The members will make a selection of 14 proposals, and their authors will need to make a presentation to the centres' programmers and the Selection Committee to answer their questions. In the second selection phase, seven finalist projects and the itinerant projects will be selected.
You can submit your project — for a maximum amount of 6,171 euros for artistic production projects and 11,253 euros for curatorial proposals — until 29 April in the entry box on the civic centres' website. For any questions, you can write an email to temporals@bcn.cat.