自由行不行──當代藝術作品展
Free Individual Travel… How Much Free?
A Contemporary Art Exhibition
作品徵集Call for Entries
自由，往往使我們產生很多的幻想和回嚮，也許是幻覺，似有還無的在人們的生活中遊蕩。自由行，不是現代人的專利，古代的遊吟詩人是自由行的先鋒，且比我們更懂得自由行的真正意義。近年自由行亦由正面客觀慢慢走向兩極，更與澳門結下不解之緣，悄然地改變著澳門的社會形態，人們的生活模式。自由行對當今中國是一種政策，而在不同地域有不同的理解，但他更應該是一種生活態度。
自由行可以說是人們都有的經驗生活，去到香港，或過了拱北，我們就成了自由行的身份，但當自由行成為澳門發展的一部份時，往往覺得陌生，擁擠與悠閒、寧靜與熱鬧、寬容與傲視……都似乎成了矛盾中的和諧。我們期望藝術家通過以自由行為主題進行思考及創作，展覽作品不限媒介，藝術家以不同的形式創作，以多方面表現自由行的現象和感受。
創作媒材：不限
作品尺寸：作品尺寸以2米立方為限。
參展條件：務必填妥報名表格，於截止日期前交回「牛房倉庫」。
作品展出：由主辦單位因應展覽理念選出適合展出之作品參展
截止交表日期：2012年4月15日
交件及佈展日期：2012年5月11至18日
展覽日期：2012年5月19至7月8日
展覽地點：牛房倉庫
主辦：牛房倉庫
備註：
1. 主辦單位將負責是次活動之宣傳、推廣、提供場地及協助佈展；
2. 所有參展之作品，主辦單位有權將作品翻拍作任何宣傳用途而無需另行通知作者；
3. 本章程如有未盡之處，主辦單位有權作出修改而不作另行通知。
填妥表格後，請於4月15日之前，連同個人履歷及作品照片/草圖交回牛房倉庫，郵寄、傳真或電郵亦可。 地址:：澳門美副將大馬路與罅些喇提督大馬路交界牛房倉庫，E-mail：oxwarehouse@gmail.com，傳真：28533047，如需查詢，請於辦公時間內致電28530026。(12:00~19:00, 逢星期二休息)
The notion of ‘freedom’ can trigger in us lots of imaginations and echoes, or maybe just illusions that seemingly haunt our daily lives. The concept of free individual travel isn’t something unique to contemporary people as the ancient troubadours were indeed pioneers who knew already very well its true meaning. In recent years, the trend of free individual travel has become widely popular, while at the same time gradually generating extremes of behavior, straying from its originally positive and subjective nature. (As a tourist destination favored by China’s Individual Visit Scheme policy) Macao SAR experiences vividly this phenomenon, as its policies have been changing local social forms and people’s lifestyle imperceptibly. In mainland China, free individual travel, or Individual Visit Scheme, is understood as a government policy. Though it is interpreted differently by each region, universally it should be more a lifestyle than a political issue.
It seems that everyone has been, one time or another, a free individual traveler. As soon as we cross the SAR boundary to Hong Kong, or pass to Gongbei, we become free individual travelers. However, when the Individual Visit Scheme and the resulting free individual travelers flocking to the city become key components of Macao’s development, we may invariably feel some uneasiness, where crowdedness and leisure, tranquility and bustling, tolerance and arrogance…are all intertwined, although it seems these contradictions have become somewhat harmonious.
Artists are invited to draw inspiration from this theme – the free individual travel phenomenon – to create artworks. Exhibition entries are medium free and artists can produce artworks in different formats to express their feelings towards this multifaceted phenomenon.
Creative media: Free
Work dimensions: Up to 2 cubic meters
Procedures: Interested parties should fill and submit the application form to Ox Warehouse prior to the submission deadline stated below.
Exhibition of artworks：Only artworks related to the theme and selected by the organizer will be exhibited.
Application submission deadline: April 15, 2012
Artwork submission and installation dates: May 11-18, 2012
Exhibition period: May 19 – July 8, 2012
Exhibition venue: Ox Warehouse
Organizer: Ox Warehouse
Remarks：
1. The organizer is responsible for the event’s publicity and promotion. Exhibition venue and assistance during installation will also be provided.
2. The organizer has the right to photograph any exhibit for publicity purposes without prior notification to the author.
3. For matters not covered in these guidelines, the organizer reserves the right to change the rules without prior notice.
Interested parties please submit the filled application form together with your CV, artwork photos/sketches to Ox Warehouse, by post, fax or via email.
Address: No Cruzamento entro a Avenida Do coronel Mesquita e a Avenida Almirante Lacerda Macau, Ox Warehouse
E-mail：oxwarehouse@gmail.com
Fax：28533047
Tel: 28530026 (Opening Hours: 12:00~19:00, Tuesday Off)
