Deadline: 21 November 2010
"Baasher Ghor" translates as Bamboo House in Bengali.
This is a call for architects, designers, artists, craftspeople and writers to submit projects and artwork involving bamboo as a material in the context of space, an interior or narrative journey with an attached significance to a place, either in the country you reside in or an east/ south-east Asian country.
In the UK we mostly find bamboo in garden centres, used simply for growing runner beans. In Japan national museums are made of bamboo and in honour of its evolving history. In Bangladesh mud and bamboo huts remain the vernacular of village areas as the city encroaches into the countryside. In Indonesia traditional basket making is disappearing in exchange for plastic reproductions.
Bamboo wood is synonymously linked with Asia and inextricably connects people with a place.
AIMS:
To explore the multiple meanings given to bamboo in different cultures and diverse ways it has been used.
To consider how it is used in an everyday settings.
To consider how bamboo is used in connecting people in different countries and exchanging ideas and methodologies of communication.
OBJECTIVES:
To bring people who have an association with bamboo into a common dialogue.
To create an outcome that can be shared with audiences locally, nationally and internationally. This will be partly determined by the process each applicant has taken.
To accumulate in a group show in 2011.
RESPONDING TO THE BRIEF:
If you are interested in applying please provide the following written information:-
1.Introduction and background to your practice
2.How you have used bamboo
3.An outline of what you wish to submit (size, medium)
Submissions should be no more than 1000 words, or two sides of A4 – with up to five images attached for consideration.
There are no restrictions on the medium you choose to use.
TIMESCALE:
Deadline for submissions: 21st November 2010
Projects will be selected and successful applicants notified by 21st December 2010
Project starts: beginning January 2011
Project completed by October 2011
For further information email Saif Osmani at s.osmani@ymail.com or call +44(0)7915 234404
More information here.
"Baasher Ghor" translates as Bamboo House in Bengali.
This is a call for architects, designers, artists, craftspeople and writers to submit projects and artwork involving bamboo as a material in the context of space, an interior or narrative journey with an attached significance to a place, either in the country you reside in or an east/ south-east Asian country.
In the UK we mostly find bamboo in garden centres, used simply for growing runner beans. In Japan national museums are made of bamboo and in honour of its evolving history. In Bangladesh mud and bamboo huts remain the vernacular of village areas as the city encroaches into the countryside. In Indonesia traditional basket making is disappearing in exchange for plastic reproductions.
Bamboo wood is synonymously linked with Asia and inextricably connects people with a place.
AIMS:
To explore the multiple meanings given to bamboo in different cultures and diverse ways it has been used.
To consider how it is used in an everyday settings.
To consider how bamboo is used in connecting people in different countries and exchanging ideas and methodologies of communication.
OBJECTIVES:
To bring people who have an association with bamboo into a common dialogue.
To create an outcome that can be shared with audiences locally, nationally and internationally. This will be partly determined by the process each applicant has taken.
To accumulate in a group show in 2011.
RESPONDING TO THE BRIEF:
If you are interested in applying please provide the following written information:-
1.Introduction and background to your practice
2.How you have used bamboo
3.An outline of what you wish to submit (size, medium)
Submissions should be no more than 1000 words, or two sides of A4 – with up to five images attached for consideration.
There are no restrictions on the medium you choose to use.
TIMESCALE:
Deadline for submissions: 21st November 2010
Projects will be selected and successful applicants notified by 21st December 2010
Project starts: beginning January 2011
Project completed by October 2011
For further information email Saif Osmani at s.osmani@ymail.com or call +44(0)7915 234404
More information here.
