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face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big><b><big><big>ANTIFREEZE</big></big></b><br>
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Already
voted the 6th best thing to do this summer by The Times Online and it
hasn’t even happened yet!</big></font></font>
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<b>Calling
all artists and artist-led groups, projects, galleries and publishers
from across Europe and the UK.</b></big></font></font>
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Contents
May Vary are hosting Manchester's very first art car boot fair on
Saturday 4th of July 2009 and are looking for 50-70 artists,
artist-led groups, projects, galleries and publishers to participate.
The event is part of “Trade City” at the CHIPS building in
Manchester City Centre and will be coinciding with the Manchester
International Festival.</big></font></font><br>
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ANTIFREEZE is an
exhibition about the high end art market delivered within the format
of low end trade. If you don't like the art market, smash the back of
your car up and bring it to us, bring your Betamax players and sell
them four ten million dollars a piece. Its not an opportunity to show
watercolours of your favourite stroll through the grounds of Peveril
Castle out the back of your Volvo or a chance to make 20 quid
knocking out your grannies china, its a chance to make art about a
this insidious welt within contemporary art or about its powerful
force that shows the rest of the world just how much art can
transcend a recession and the grip Government control. We will build
you a cheap platform and you bring the ideas. ANTIFREEZE is the grass
roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and
non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and
independence.</big></font></font>
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Proposals
should fully outline the exhibition aspect, responding to the
physical, social, economical, geographical and/or literal situation.
Participants will be provided with an average car parking space to
park and install.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>We
already have site responsive installations, performances, video
installations, zine stalls and temporary gallery sites signed up… and
are looking for more!<br>
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Price:
£10 per 5.5m x 2.4m pitch for the day</big></font></b></font>
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There
is no fee to apply and there is a selection process.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>You
will only be informed if your application is successful at which
point your £10 pitch fee will be requested.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>Participants
will be responsible for transportation and installation.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>No
technical support can be provided.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>No
mains electricity available.</big></font></font>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font size="2"><big>No
commissions will be taken.</big></font></font>
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For
a 5.5m x 2.4m pitch at the ANTIFREEZE: Send
a 500 word maximum proposal with supporting images and web links to:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:c-m-v@hotmail.co.uk">c-m-v@hotmail.co.uk</a><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"><b><font size="2"><big>Deadline:
15th June 2009</big></font></b></font>
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More
information on Trade City: Centred on the notion of trade pursued as
a livelihood, this exhibition reflects the trading that has taken
place between the artists and curators making up 13 independent,
citywide, art initiatives. This alternative economy draws reference
from and plays off the city's pioneering economic heritage. Through
Trade City, Contemporary Art Manchester proposes an innovative
approach to displaying the social transactions of contemporary art
at this moment.</big></font></font>
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The
partners within CAM consortium are unified in their role to programme
artists’ work, through diverse and innovative curatorial
frameworks including exhibition, screening and publication
formats. Current partners of CAM include twenty+3 projects, 100th
Monkey, Bureau, Castlefield Gallery, Contents May Vary, Edmundson
& Quaife, Exocet, FutureEverything, Gymnasium, Interval,
Islington Mill Art Academy, Harfleet and Jack, Salford Restoration
Office and Rogue Project Space.</big></font></font><br>
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href="http://www.contentsmayvary.org/">http://www.contentsmayvary.org/</a></font></small></big><small>
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