ROOTING OUR CITIES - Focusing on the unexpected guests

"ROOTING OUR CITIES - Focusing on the unexpected guests" IN BRIEF

GENERAL INFORMATION: International call for any kind of artworks and creative projects dedicated to the plants world. The organizer invites the production of works and proposals dedicated to the plants in the cities, growing sometimes as wonderful unexpected guests, spontaneously popping up in the most unexpected places, taking their right of citizenship.

Submission should be completed with:

• Details of the Author/Authors: name, surname, nationality, date of birth, email address;

• Title of the Artwork;

• Explanatory text.

Please note that only artworks specifically related to plants in the cities will be accepted; more generic works will be considered off-topic.

We accept maximum 3 works per Author; works that have already been published can also be sent.

The submitted artworks will remain property of the artists who produced them.  

Submitting your work/works, you certified that the information provided is correct and true, and that you are the owner /legal owner of the artwork/artworks submitted​.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: All authors of any nationality who have reached 18 years of age at the competition expiry date can take part in the competition. Individual authors, collectives and formal corporations can enter. No registration fee is required.

ARTISTS SUBMISSIONS: Artworks are to be submitted by email to: artistsforplants@gmail.com.

DEADLINE for the submissions: September 30th, 2023.

EXHIBITIONS VENUES: The selected artworks will be displayed at the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo (Sicily - Italy). The organizers plan to make a special event on October 29th, to celebrate the conclusion of the Call.

SOCIAL MEDIA COPYRIGHT AND AUTHORIZATION: The selected artworks will remain property of the artists who produced them. Submitting their works, the Artists (will) ac- cept and allow that their artworks can be published by Artistsforplants and the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo, in their websites and social media channels within the framework of the 2023 Call “ROOTING OUR CITIES” and various related activities, and without any further authorizations.

Rights to use and publish the works will be automatically transferred free of charge and in non-exclusive form.

Moreover the selected artworks that will be displayed by the Botanical Garden will be ac- companied by full credits, specifying that they have been created in response to the Call ROOTING OUR CITIES.

SELECTION COMMITTEE: the Jury will be composed by leading experts from different fields, from arts to environmental and social sciences.