UNYT has launched a new competition titled "Madrid Art Bioscope - Art for everyone". The competition seeks a portable structural device for artists that can be placed in any public realm in context with the city conceived from the design of a Bioscope that was used as a portable cinema theatre.

Premise

Art is a repository of a society’s collective memory; it tends to preserve what historical facts cannot. It is a form of representation of culture and tradition in most lucid form and acts as a visual language that speaks to all. It has become a chronicle that has created different identities for itself, namely, visual, performing, and written. Art’s transition from utilitarian purposes and aesthetics into work of expression happened hundreds of years after its birth. Where is it now?

Art is the fundamental form of representation yet it is unnoticed, at the comfort of our screens there is a visual barrier that deprives us of its actual flavour. 

Challenge

Enjoying any form of art sounds implausible to a large number of people who have never experienced art physically, or found an opportunity to build a relationship. From an artist’s perspective, pursuing any form of art as their means of livelihood for sustenance is a far-fetched dream. 

Entertainers, dancers, musicians or street artistsperform individually in open public spaces. They have enabled the option of an exclusive form of interactionfor the audience by offering art as an experience. They have challenged the antiquated form of displaying art only in theatres by their performance. Their reach is bound by lack of infrastructural support on performance locations or the disengagement of spectators with art.  

Can we as designers suggest an alternative to house such artists by giving them an open platform to explore their potential? Can this intervention help re-establish the disconnect of people with art?  

Brief: The participants have to design a portable structural device for artists that can be placed in any public realm in context with the city conceived from the design of a Bioscope that was used as a portable cinema theatre. 

Jury

To be announced.

Schedule

Launch June 24, 2019

Standard Registration: 21 November 2019

20$ Students, 25$ Professionals, 80$ Institutional Access

Submission Deadline: 1 December 2019

Public Voting begins: 11 December 2019

Public Voting ends: 1 January 2020

Result Announcement: 11 January 2020

Awards

Winner: 5000 USD Cash Reward

Cash + Trophy + Certificate (Open for students & professionals)

Runner - Up: 3 x 1500 USD Cash Reward

Cash + Trophy + Certificate (2 x Students and 1 x Professional)

People's choice: 4 x 500 USD Cash Reward

Cash + Certificate (2 x Students and 2 x Professionals)

Honorable Mention: 14 x 250 USD Cash Reward

Cash + Certificate (7 x Students and 7 x Professionals)

To download the full brief, rules and register, please visit the competition's website. 

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