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From: Charles Becker <beckerleschar@ORANGE.SN>
List Editor: Charles Becker <beckerleschar@ORANGE.SN>
Editor's Subject: Applications opened for Dak'Art 2010. - Biennale of Contemporary African Art
Author's Subject: Applications opened for Dak'Art 2010. - Biennale of Contemporary African Art
Date Written: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:39:11 +0000
Date Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2009 06:39:11 -0500

Applications are opened for Dak'Art 2010.
Application documents must reach the General Secretariat of the Biennale as
soon as possible and lately 31st of december 2009.

   1. Candidates must read carefully and download below: the call for
application
   2. the general regulation
   3. the technical form.

http://www.dakart.org/candidature-dakart2010/candidature.htm

Excerpt from the General Regulation of the Biennale of African Contemporary Art
:
" Article 7 : The International Exhibition is opened in priority to African
artists. African artists as Diaspora artists must send application documents to
the General Secretariat of the Biennale of African Contemporary Art ».
o 	Application must include the following documents digitalised and burnt on
one Cd-rom or DVD :
1	Application letter
2	Detailed curriculum vitae: civil status, studies, exhibitions, awards,
residencies, publications, links on the web.
3	Two recent passport size photographs (printed AND digitalised)
4	Five colour copies of recent works (less than 2 years old).
5	The technical form describing this works (downloadable on
www.biennaledakar.org).
6	Copies of published articles, art magazines and art critic articles on the
artist's work, one or several statements from well known experts (optional).

o	Text documents must be presented in .doc, .rtf, .pdf or .txt files.
o	Pictures and photos documents, included passport photos must be JPEG, TIFF or
PNG files in high resolution, 300 dots per inch.
o	However, artists unable to give digitalise documents are allowed to send
application documents printed on paper.
o	Each picture file must be named with an explicit title and joined to each
one, a text file with name of the file, name of the artist, title of the work,
technical description, year, size, name of the photographer of the work
(obligatory).
o	For photos printed on paper, these details must appear on the back of each
photo.
o	INSTALLATIONS : join to the application a detailed description of the
installations, if necessary a plan and sketches of the installation.
o	VIDEO WORKS / DIGITAL ART : Join to the application a Cd-rom or DVD of the
works and any useful information to install the work in the exhibition space.

These documents will not be returned to the artist after the deliberations of
the selection committee. They will be added to the Documentation Centre of the
Biennale.
Incomplete applications shall not be considered.
The works submitted to selection must not have been shown yet into an
international exhibition.
o The duly completed application documents must be sent to the following
address:
Secrétariat Général de la Biennale de Dakar 19, Avenue Hassan II ( ex Avenue
Albert Sarraut) B.P. 3865 Dakar - RP Sénégal
o Application documents must reach the General Secretariat of the Biennale
lately : 31st of december 2009


http://www.dakart.org/http://www.biennale.org
email: caqndidature@biennaledakar.org

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