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THE CRAZY SHOW 2010

The “Crazy” show is meant to be a studio for artists to explore their limits and expand their horizons.

We are asking artists to take a leap of faith and jump into a Dionysian state of mind where logic and imagination are unbound. In our usual Cultureinside complicated dual-level manner - and we apologize, we are just complicated people   - we offer this online exhibition as an exercise and an opportunity to create work that is outside the box.

Each work submitted for the exhibition should be an example of a radical shift, a juxtaposition of opposites, counter-intuitive, changes in paradigms, a break in logic, or an unusual combination of materials, media, color, or ideas. 

Work can be sensationalistic, although extreme horror or sexual content are not encouraged.We are looking for work that is “good” crazy, crazy like a fox, as opposed to art that depicts evil, destructive, or violent behavior.

We believe that those kinds of images are often depicted in popular culture and therefore have become cliche, an obvious move, often based on the fear of loss of control and the underlying violence in society. There are many examples of this better kind of strangeness in art, science, or literature. both in mainstream art, alternative modern, outsider art or art of native cultures that can be considered crazy. If you need inspiration, we might begin a list of interesting examples that can be accessed. Work can be done in any media but we can only accept jpegs for the exhibition.

We want this exhibition to be enjoyable, experimental, and thought-provoking for artists and viewers alike.

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crazy show rules

Deadlines

This ongoing call is running until October, 31 2010 (Halloween at midnight CET.) The result is a pure online show. The competition is open to artists, photographers & art students & artist groups worldwide inside or outside of CULTUREINSIDE.Accepted are images of any visual art form connected to the theme of the exhibition (please read the call text!).

Yellowcat (CI team) will present all submitted works after reception in a gallery of the crazy show proposals. Yellowcat will select the most craziest works for the final round. Appeals against YELLOWCAT's decisions are not admissible.

November 3rd : Announcement of the most craziest works selected by Yellowcat.
These final works will be published on CULTUREINSIDE and its  CULTUREINSIDE channels.

From November 3  to 10 : The CULTUREINSIDE acebook  fan community will select the most craziest work.

The winning artist will receive an amazon gift certificate of 100 Euros (or equivalent).

(the winning artists will be the artist with the highest numbers of Like from our fans)

How to submit your work:

An individual artist can submit one image.
An artist group can submit as many images as group members. Each image has to be attributed to one group member.
YOU MUST BE THE CREATOR and HAVE FULL RIGHT ON THE IMAGE 

SEND AN EMAIL TO CONTEST @ CULTUREINSIDE.COM:

In order to be accepted to participate in the competition it is mandatory to indicate in the mail :

- SUBJECT: Competition The crazy show
- (if cultureinside member) your cultureinside pseudo,
- First and last name
- country
-  the title, creation year, media
- and (optional) send a "crazy show" concept.

- THE COMPLETE URL to your image (i.e http://mydomain.com/images/mycrazyimage.jpg)

OR

- You can attach your image, but the size is limited to 1MB

Note:s

for artist group: group name and members' names and first names, specify which image is of which member

Your email address will stay confidential and will never be communicated to third parties.