Call for Artists

Desperate Artwives

Learning from our previous ‘takeover’ model we would like to extend the concept and 

build on that experience. We are offering a new opportunity to performing artists to be part of the East End Gallery Trail. 

The event will be taking place on Saturday 24th of June coinciding with the fall of 

midsummer time. We are asking applicants to send us proposals that work ties up with the concept of Midsummer Madness. 

Midsummer Madness is an uncertain term evoking and blending divergent sentiments such as pleasure and dejection, fun and chaos.  Midsummer itself elicits a kind of 

madness in us all, where days are long and nights are short and hot. Where images of full ripe fruits come to mind, plump and ready to burst like a woman's pregnant belly.  Madness throughout history has gone hand in hand with female identity, from the 

burning of witches to the locking up in asylums of women who didn't fit the patriarchal prototype. Furthermore motherhood can bring with it ambivalent feelings, happiness, depression, overwhelming pressure and exhaustion, intense love, mind numbing boredom. Motherhood itself plunges you into a kind of madness.  

Midsummer Madness with the Desperate Artwives looks to reflect upon and tease out these important and frequently dismissed conversations, giving voice to these concerns with a feminist commitment. Mother Artists will use their experiences as raw materials, blurring boundaries between Art and Activism, presenting alternative approaches of artistic production by focusing on personal experience as a legitimate and valid creative subject matter. 

Please send your proposal to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com 

PLEASE NOTE - DEADLINE HAS BEEN BROUGHT 

FORWARD! THE NEW DATE IS MIDNIGHT SUNDAY THE 28th OF MAY. 

Curated by Amy Dignam and Adriana Cerne.