Open Call

Wide Open Space is a free and online exhibitionary and repository space for art projects, like exhibitions and publications.

It is an artist-funded experimental collaborative set up by volunteers, mainly culture producers and artists, who can empathise with the need for a common, neutral, online space. It is open for the hosting of any art projects, from the amateur to the institutional, and across art forms.

There is little meta-curation, but for a liberal definition of art.^

Archive Open Call for Past Art Projects

We are currently having an open call for past art projects for our archive. That is, we are looking to put up documentation or archival material of your art project, such as exhibition poster, write-ups, photographs of your exhibition and installation, list of artists, artworks, and so on. Most, if not all, contributions will be accepted.

With these, a basic webpage populated with your materials will be created and, and you will be enabled with editing rights to adjust the presentation for your project. When you confirm that it is ready, your project can be listed in our archives and announced on our channels.

For some idea of what we mean, please browse the projects in our archive.

Why join us?

Why join us?

• Resource-saving

  •  Listing is free.

  • WOS is created mainly to host collaborative projects which may not be most suitably hosted on an individual’s portfolio website since it does not “belong” to one person. Typically, in these cases, new project-specific websites are created to exist for a few years before it becomes a distant memory drifting in the backwaters of www. WOS is premised on an experimental model of pooling resources together and to exist as long as it is viable. (Thus, we urge you to back up your materials still and maintain your archival documents, of course.) But WOS archive is a way for the projects to remain online in some form.

• Pooling audiences and publicity efforts

  • Since the community will likely have more activities than any single independent producer, by hosting everybody’s projects, WOS will continue to attract new audiences with more regularity. This traffic logically implies that the archive stands a higher chance of being activated. 

  • It’s good to list your project here, even if you do have another website, the more presence, the better right?

• Community building

• It’s likely that you are a cultural producer because you believe in the promulgation of art or your cause through the arts. Let’s do better together. By listing your work here, you will be also be actively forming and contributing to this community of culture producers and partake in the sharing of resources etc.

  • e.g. sharing and learning organising processes such as checklists and templates.

• Retain your independence 

  • You retain full credit and autonomy for your project. WOS promises little intervention on your content and curation, as we simply don’t have the bandwidth. It also implies that WOS contributors are expected to be independent and self-directed and to google Squarespace FAQs for technical troubleshooting. 

  • Community building X independence may seem ironic at first, but think of it as interdependence and a loose collaborative, you determine your level of engagement.

How and what to submit

• First, create a shared drive (e.g. google folder or dropbox), that is without a time limit on sharing and downloading

  • i.e. not through those links that need to be downloaded within seven days.

• In this shared drive, include:

  • Your art project materials such as exhibition poster, write-ups, photographs of your exhibition and installation, list of artists, artworks, and so on.

  • Please refer to this checklist of information or materials here.

  • Please also include a copy of this document.

  • Your contact details are especially important.

•  Wide Open Space does not aim to re/create physical spaces nor experiences. If relevant, you may wish to upload maps or embed some virtual 3D simulation code thing. Write in to discuss more.

•  Email the link to wideopencall@gmail.com or fill out the form below.

Open call for new art projects

You may also use this webspace to host your upcoming new projects. They can be online projects, or physical projects requiring an independent online presence.

Subsequently, the project webpages can be updated with the project documentation, e.g. installation views and event photos, and moved into the archive.

As requirements for new projects are more complicated, please drop us a word here. We can discuss the details.

Disclaimers

The site is run by a volunteer, so resources and attentiveness are severely limited. Please take this into your timeline and budget planning.

^There is some art direction especially with the common pages, and with the “template design” that comes with this CMS, but something has got to give for the ease of use since none of us is professional web developers. If you prefer to present your project in your visual elements, we urge you to submit your materials as laid out in a downloadable pdf, which can be hosted, for example, with some simple write-up on your project.