HOW TO ENTER

ULTIMATE STILLNESS online exhibition open call

What does stillness mean to you? How can you represent silence?

the brief:
Margaret Sharrow is an artist exploring these questions and has an online proposal to create ULTIMATE STILLNESS at the North Pole (to read more and vote for her proposal, see http://www.blogyourwaytothenorthpole.com/entries/166). As a prelude to heading to the Arctic, she is organising an online exhibition of images of stillness and silence that is open to all.

what to do:

Represent stillness or silence in any medium. Send e-mail to ultimatestillness@gmail.com with 'open call 1' in subject line. Attach up to 3 .jpg files (maximum 300kb) OR 1 .mp4 file (maximum 60 seconds & size under 12mb). Please also include your name, city/town, country, title & medium.

DEADLINE:

NOW EXTENDED to 1 March 2011.

terms & conditions:

One entry (including up to three images) per person. Entry is free.

Images, videos and text will be posted online at ultimatestillness.blogspot.com

A selection of the best contributions will be presented in interventions in public places around the United Kingdom during February - November 2011. Artists chosen for the interventions will be contacted in advance and fully credited. [Please note change from previous version of this posting, which gave dates of February - June 2011 for the interventions.]

By submitting an entry as described above, you consent for your image to be posted on the ULTIMATE STILLNESS website (http://ultimatestillness.blogspot.com/). You also consent for your image to be considered for use in interventions organised and executed by Margaret Sharrow. You will be informed by e-mail of the proposed date and location of such interventions. For more information, see ULTIMATE STILLNESS exhibition FAQs.

Please note that the ULTIMATE STILLNESS website is suitable for all ages, and material that could be considered defamatory or obscene will not be posted on the ULTIMATE STILLNESS website.

ULTIMATE STILLNESS at the North Pole

The north pole is one of only two places on earth where the world stops turning. Can you feel the stillness?

My name is Margaret Sharrow, I'm an artist, and I'm so excited about my plans to share standing atop the world in a moment of silence. I'd invite others on the expedition to stand round the pole, dressed in red and bearing portraits of people who have brought peace and silence to the world. One by one they will stand on the pole, feeling inner and outer stillness as the world turns around them. They will also pass round the circle a plate of Italian crystal containing gold filaments, a work of art currently circling the world from one artist to another via FRAGILE - global performance chain journey.

Vote for me and I'll take dramatic photos of that event and everything else on the voyage, using digital and antique cameras. You'll see videos and share my stories and interviews on the blog. And I'll give you other ways to participate: I'll need nominations of people who've nurtured silence, to have their portraits carried to the pole. I'll organise silent circles round the world to experience stillness at the very moment the expedition reaches the pole. There will be a photo-book, and an exhibition that will tour the globe.

Please vote for ULTIMATE STILLNESS at the North Pole now - voting closes 14 February 2011! Click here to vote now!

Image copyright Margaret Sharrow, 2008