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<p dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr;text-align:center" align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="4"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;font-family:Tahoma">MoBY [Museums of Bat Yam, Israel]</span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" size="4"><span lang="HE" dir="rtl" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr;text-align:center" align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" color="gray" size="2"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;color:gray;font-family:Tahoma">Deadline: December 15</span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" color="gray" size="1"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:6.5pt;color:gray;font-family:Tahoma">th </span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" color="gray" size="2"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;color:gray;font-family:Tahoma">2008</span></font></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"></p><p align="right" style="text-align:left" dir="ltr"><span dir="LTR" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold">MoBY</span> (Museums of Bat Yam, Israel) is inviting artists and
groups of all cultural fields to submit</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">proposals for works/actions for Factory, an
international exhibition taking place in two venues from May</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>2009.</span></p>
</div><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold">Factory</span> exhibition focuses on production processes
and their outcome in the framework of the art field,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">as well as on the social-economic structures
that govern the contemporary world. The exhibition's theme is inspired by Andy
Warhol's famous studio, which carried diverse functions during the 60s – a gathering
place for the New York
bohemia, a site in which both superstars and marginal characters</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">dwelled, a place that shaped the public and
artistic persona of Warhol and his companions while</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">functioning as an artist's studio in the full
sense of the word, stimulating artistic production in various media. Factory
exhibition foregrounds the critical tension that resides in production
processes of different art practices (video, sound, installation, performance,
painting, photography etc.), between the live event, concrete artifacts and
their display and consumption. We seek to induce the same tension in the
friction and echoing formed between the exhibition's two venues, as the
artistic activity in each of the sites will be shaped according to the unique
characteristics of each space.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">:::First venue – Ben Ari Museum of
Contemporary Art, Bat Yam</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">A museal exhibition showing between May and
August 2009, concentrating on production processes</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">responding or challenging the museum
institution's display strategies, outlines and boundaries.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">:::Second venue – Industrial area, Bat Yam</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The industrial area is a non-artistic space,
and nonetheless a much desired location for contemporary</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">art display because of its seemingly raw
nature. These are the last days of Bat
Yam's industrial area in its current appearance, as it
is planned to go through a renovation process that will transform it to a "business
area". The chosen artists will work in different spaces in the industrial
area for about a month, during May 2009. The various projects will be created
during this month, in a process that will culminate in a live artistic event.
This event, much in the spirit of 70s Happenings, will be open to the public
for the duration of 5 days.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">You may submit a proposal for each of the
venues</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Please use the following form, available for
download here: <a href="http://mobyinfo.googlepages.com/home" target="_blank">http://mobyinfo.googlepages.com/home</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Please send your proposal to:
<a href="mailto:mobyfactory@gmail.com" target="_blank">mobyfactory@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">*The museum serves the right to select the
participating proposals. Answers will be given until mid January 09.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-weight:bold"><br>
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