Whippersnapper Gallery is accepting proposals from emerging curators, arts organizers, artists and other cultural producers practicing across a variety of disciplines and media for both on-site and off-site programming.

Whippersnapper is committed to paying fair fees to artists, curators, and other cultural producers (in accordance to CARFAC). However, we have to pursue funding on a project-to-project basis. This means that upon acceptance, we need selected applicants must work closely with gallery staff provide the materials needed for grant writing and fundraising around the project.

To apply for the Open Call for Curatorial/Artist Projects please send of the following pieces to general@whippersnapper.ca by Friday, August 26th 2016:

Please prepare steps 1, 2, 3 & 5 of this application in ONE PDF file. This file and image files should be sent as single attachment in ONE .zip folder to: general@whippersnapper.ca with the subject line as FALL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to ensure your application is seen.

Please review the full description of the above list on our website before submitting. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Whippersnapper Gallery and Mayworks Present:

WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY

MAY 1st - MAY 31st

OPENING RECEPTION:

MAY 7th 7pm-9pm

Coco Guzman’s immersive installation The Demonstration explores the interpersonal dynamics of the crowd and the intense emotional narratives generated when a large group of people come together for a common purpose. Originally composed by 13 large sculptures, Coco has chosen to create a specific on-site installation for Whippersnapper Gallery and the Mayworks Festival. The female Minotaur, the main sculpture of The Demonstration, is setting herself free guided by a playful kite. This freedom is not always easy and it comes with risks and pain, either from within ourselves, people around us or from society. The Minotaur inhabits this struggle and this desire of growing freer.

Historian Eric Hobsbawm writes that, “Next to sex, the activity combining bodily experience and intense emotion to the highest degree is the participation in a mass demonstration”. The audience is invited to wander within the scene of this grotesque demonstration/parade composed by human-size papier-mâché figures and on-site drawings and to reflect on the place that protest/celebration and gathering takes in our neoliberal societies.

The Minotaur sculpture has been created in collaboration with visual artist Carla Molina-Holmes.

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Whippersnapper Gallery Open Call for Curatorial / Artist Projects

COCO GUZMAN: THE DEMONSTRATION: WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY