30.04. 2020 - 30.04. 2020
Future Lights in Ceramics competition 2021
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Who can apply?
Applicants must be residents in EU or associated states at the time of applying. Please note that the main focus will be on applicants living in the programme region of Interreg VB Central Europe (https://www.interreg-central.eu ).
The Applicants should have completed their main full time studies within the last 5 years and should be of an age under 35 years. Applicants should have expertise, experience or innovative ideas that respond to the theme, as described above.
Applicants should have expertise, experience or innovative ideas that respond to the theme. We are happy to receive applications from people from a range of disciplines including design, fine art.
Future Lights
Future Lights is an annual competition for people in the early stages of a career in ceramics. The aims of the competition are to
-Encourage cross-disciplinary learning and approaches by bringing together the ceramic designers, makers and artists of the future.
-Support people in the early stages of a career in ceramics by exhibiting their work at high profile ceramics exhibitions across Europe.
-Promote ceramics to a younger audience, though identifying potential ambassadors.
-The competition is run by Porzellanikon. Each year, recent graduates from across. Central Europe are invited to apply to Porzellanikon, setting out their experience and responding to the year’s theme.
The Future Lights of Ceramics Award is looking for those young creatives, who have been inspired by the new technical options and the potential of the unusual, the unorthodox use of methods to create the novel and exceptional.
Modern Techniques
3D forming and high pressure casting are only two of the modern technics to be used for new creative items produced by artists as well as designers. Besides, there are many particular and extraordinary ways to shape new forms and to find fascinating distinctive forms of decoration, structured relief surfaces as well as unusual colour techniques. Today it is possible to choose between the one and only – the unique piece, a small series, or mass production. Above and beyond it is possible to do just a slight change in programming to reach a uniqueness in a multiplicity. To use also materials like paper, plastics, and rubber to form a surface, or parts of an item in an inimitability never seen before is just one out of several new possibilities and challenges.
What is the prize?
7 competition winners will be invited to:
Attend a workshop where participants collaborate across disciplines and develop new work. Showcase their work at high profile events across Europe and through the wider CerDee project. In February 2021, Future Lights Ambassadors will exhibit at Ambiente, the world’s most important consumer goods trade fair, attended more than 134,000 trade visitors from over 150 countries.
How do I apply?
Applications must be submitted in English by 30 April 2020. Please send the following information as a WeTransfer to Jana.Goebel@porzellanikon.org:
-Your personal details: Name, address, email address, website, social media links
-Your CV
-A response to this year’s theme (250 words)
-Why you think you’d be a good ambassador for ceramics (250 words)
-At least five but not more than seven photos of your work (printing size at a maximum 21 x 29,7 cm), published articles or research papers
-Confirmation that you have read the Terms & Conditions
Include, please, all 6 items into one pdf-file in the order given above and named as follows: Surname_First Name_FLapplication_2020 (e. g. Goebel_Jana_FLapplication_2020.pdf). The organisers of the Future Lights competition wish to be as inclusive as possible. If you have any access or support needs, please get in touch with Jana Göbel from Porzellanikon (jana.goebel@porzellanikon.org | phone: +49 9287 91800411).
Více informací na: https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/Future-Lights-in-Ceramics-competition-2021.html
