PostcART 3 Call for new entries !

kOOii artist support and promotion is inviting artists to send in work for a group exhibition at the kOOii Gallery in Hokandara, Sri Lanka.

The topic for this 3rd PostcART project is: TOYS & GAMES Toys and games seem to be very important across culture and in all people’s lives. Toys are valued by

grownups and by children. They play a role in human and social development by providing consolation, stimulating creativity and curiosity, and learning to ‘play by the rules’.

Toys are linked with technology: some of them are homemade, others are highly sophisticated and innovative.

Toys are not as innocent as they look. The amount or sort of toys one plays with

states a lot about class, status, gender, and culture.

Toys represent a multi-billion dollar market. Revenues from toy sales worldwide hit some $72 billion in 2007, with a projection of $86.3 billion by 2010- with a large chunk of the growth in the Asian market- and as such further contributes to the commercialization of private lives and the globalization of children’s consumer culture where active ‘play’ is substituted by passive ‘entertainment’.

For the postcART 3 project only art works based on toys or addressing the issue of toys and play will be considered.

Entry Deadline: All works have to be received by October 19, 2008

Eligibility: Open to all

professional working artists

Media: all media allowed, size restricted to 4’x6’

Juried by: KingsleyGunatilleke, Mieke Kooistra

More information will be posted on this blog.