Submissions due 26th August 2013

In 2013 Expanded Architecture at The Rocks is offering collaborative teams of spatial art practitioners (artists and architects) a month long residency in a Rocks Pop-Up Space, culminating in an exhibition and symposium to be held during the last weekend of Sydney Architecture Festival. The Rocks Pop-up is an initiative of Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority to find creative uses for temporarily vacant buildings, attracting new visitors to Sydney’s historic heart. The 2013 Sydney Architecture Festival celebrates Your City/Your Community through the built environment, encouraging the public to engage with their surroundings on a more intimate level.

The Expanded Architecture at The Rocks call out is in two sections:

SITE SPECIFIC CREATIVE WORK

The first call out is for proposals of collaborative works by spatial art practitioners that reflect upon the surrounding urban environment of The Rocks. These are to respond to the concept of Reverse Projections, which is the idea of re-constructing multifarious aspects of The Rocks back inside of The Rocks Pop-Up Space through site-specific works. These can be comprised of physical built installation, moving image projection, and performance.  As the exact Rocks Pop-Up location is yet to be allocated, we ask that proposals respond to the wider urban fabric of The Rocks, in an exploration of how it can be drawn inward.  Works will be selected upon their potential for direct interaction and involvement with people working in the area, residents, tourists, visitors to The Rocks and general passers-by. The selected teams will have the month long residency to create the works, starting 13th October. Final results will be exhibited on the final weekend of Sydney Architecture Festival 8th-9th November. At least one member of each collaborative team must be able to occupy the artist residency for a minimum of Wed-Sun 10am-5pm, for the residency to be awarded.

ACADEMIC PAPERS

The second call out is for academic papers of 2500 words for inclusion in the exhibition catalogue and potential presentation at the Symposium held on 9th November, the final weekend of the Sydney Architecture Festival. Expanded Architecture at The Rocks invites critical investigations of theoretical and historical content from academics, as well as practice-oriented contributions from content providers such as architects, artists and curators, that reflect upon concept of Reverse Projections and the potential for aspects of an urban environment, to be re-presented and re-constructed through site-specific engagement. These papers may be based upon the proposal for site-specific works, or can be stand alone papers from people not submitting proposals for site-specific works. The papers can be from people that may or may not be able to be present for the conference, in which case the papers may be selected for inclusion in the catalogue only.