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International Symposium of Monumental Ceramics in Opishne

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  • Common regulations

    І. COMMON REGULATIONS

    1.1The International Symposium of Monumental Ceramics in Opishne GigantoMANIA-2020 (hereinafter the Symposium) is a polyfunctional art action, aimed at the revival of the processes of the development of modern pottery art.

    1.2. The Symposium is carried out within the bounds of the 12th Week of the National Pottery Shifting The 2020 Shift in Opishne.

    1.3. The main purpose of the Symposium is to provide the creative intercourse among craftsmen representing different art trends and schools, the production of highly artistic works of monumental ceramics.

    1.4. The main tasks of the Symposium are:

    • to develop pottery traditions;
    • to grow craftsmanship;
    • to exchange work experience among the craftsmen of different art trends and schools;
    • to study the current state and the general trends of the development of Ukrainian and foreign ceramics;
    • to discuss the issues of current importance regarding the theory and the practice of the modern Ukrainian and world ceramics;
    • to popularize pottery art, form the aesthetic tastes of people, procure the various usage of pottery in the everyday life of contemporaries.
    • to integrate the achievements of Ukrainian ceramics with the world pottery heritage;
    • to form the collections of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne.

    1.5. The purpose and main tasks of the Symposium will be realized through the common work of art ceramists, presentations of personal art projects.

    1.6. The National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne was indicated as the location of the Symposium. [102 Partyzanska Street, Opishne, Poltava Region, 38164, Ukraine; phone: +38 (05353) 42415, 42416, 42417; (050) 9046213; fax:  +38 (05353) 42416, 42175].

    1.7. June 03 – July 05, 2020 was indicated as the date of the Symposium.

    The date of the arrival of the Participants is June 02, 2020

    The date of the departure of the Participants is July 06, 2020

    The Symposium will be opened and the creative work begins on June 03, 2020, at 11 a.m.,

    in the territory of the Scientific Research Centre of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne (102 Partyzanska Street).

    The ceremony of the declaration of the results, the award presentation of the winners, and the solemn closing of the Symposium would be held on July 05, 2020

    The Participants could also take part in the events of:

    · the 10th National Smithery Festival VakulaFest-ХХІ (29.06 – 04.07.2020) ;

    · the 12th International Artistic Festival and Fair PotteryUniverseUkraine-2020 (03-05.07.2020) ;

    · the 10th National Competitive Festival of Pottery Bodypainting (BodyCeramicFestUkraine) (04.07.2020);

    · the 9th National Pottery Festival (04.07.2020);

    · THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION Pottery Visions of the Country (01.01 – 30.10.2020).

  • Terms of participation

    II. THE CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

    2.1.The art ceramists and sculptors from Ukraine and foreign countries are invited to take part in the Symposium. The total amount of the Participants is up to 7 persons..

    2.2.The craftsmen produce works for fixing them in the territory of the National Gallery of the Monumental Sculpture of the Museum of Pottery. The Participants produce a small bell and a Nominal Panel in the commemoration of his sojourn in Opishne as well.

    2.3. The filled request and the draft of a creative work (in a paper form or a digital one) should be sent till April 15, 2020, to the Management of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne (hereinafter the Management) to take part in the Symposium. The installation of the future work should be thought out in advance. The sending of a request cannot mean the participation of the author in the Symposium; it can only be regarded as the evidence of his intentions.

    2.4. The craftsmen will be also asked to give:

    three colour photos (10 cm х 15 cm) or digital photos of their works, that represent the peculiarities of their creative activity in full, their own photos as well as materials, characterizing their art achievements (exhibition catalogues, the photos of their works, video films, art awards, original or copied published works on the author in books or periodicals etc.). These materials, mentioned in the paragraphs 2.3 і 2.4, are decisive in the selections of the pretenders to take part in the Symposium. The information materials will be not given back; they will be accepted in permanent deposit in the National Archives of Ukrainian Pottery. Craftsmen should note what information from the materials, sent by them to the address of the Management, cannot be divulged and published in press, catalogues and so on.

    2.5.The requests for the participation in the Symposium, sent after the dead-line, will be not considered.

    2.6.The requests for the participation in the Symposium will be considered by the Expert Council, formed and confirmed by the Management. Its staff is not divulged. The Expert Council determines the personnel of the Participants of the Symposium till April 17, 2020. The Management confirms it.

    The meeting of the Expert Council is closed; decisions are reached with open vote. The decision of the Expert Council is final and cannot be a subject of appeal.

    2.7.The Management sends personal official invitations to take part in the Symposium out to craftsmen on the basis of the decision of the Expert Council till April 19, 2020.

    2.8.Craftsmen could present during the Symposium their own art project. They should inform the Management about their respective expectancies and necessary help till May 05, 2020.

    2.9.After his arrival to Opishne every Participant will be asked to show an original invitation to the Management. Craftsmen cannot participate in the Symposium without an official invitation from the Management.

    2.10.The Participant of the Symposium should give to the Management, together with the application, his written acceptance of the processing of personal records, including portrait photographies, photos during the Symposium, the photos of works, their usage in printed and digital publications, in websites, and in video films of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne and the Ceramology Institute – the branch of the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

    The Management secures personal records, given by the Participant from the transfer of them to the third party, with the exception of the cases of their open access through printed and digital publications, websites, video films and so on. The participation in the Symposium is impossible without the receiving of such consent!

  • Mutual obligations

    III. MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS

    3.1.The Management contracts for mutual obligations with every Participant of the Symposium during June 03 – July 05, 2020.

    3.2. The Management pays to every Participant of the Symposium a grant of 10 000 hryvnas on the condition, that all the requirements of paragraph 3.10 are fully applied

    3.3.The Conditions of Work.

    The Management provides a Participant free gratis for:

    • workplaces in temporary creative workshops;
    • raw stuff and materials (clay, chamotte mass, chamotte, gypsum, engobes, glazes, metal oxides, cloth, polyethylene film etc.)
    • instruments (sticks, brushes, rubber syringes, knifes etc.)
    • equipment (pottery wheels, tournettes, compressor etc.)
    • kilns and muffle furnaces
    • maintenance staff’s help during firing
    • the services of pottery restorers, technologist, and laboratory assistant.

    The Management provides a Participant free gratis for the above-mentioned raw stuff, materials, instruments and equipment in compliance with his request, given beforehand. The requirements of the Participants, not provided in advance requests, would be satisfied if an opportunity offers.

    Creative work will take place in specially equipped individual tents out-of-doors.

    3.4.Board.

    The Management provides a Participant for free three meals a day.

    3.5.  Life.

    The Management provides a Participant for free accommodation in the bedrooms of a private Nadiya hotel or in the village. There are separate toilet facilities, shower cubicles, household rooms. The Management does not provide the members of the Participants’ families (wife, husband, children etc.), their friends for accommodation. If they need, they could find suitable and comfortable temporary lodgings in the village.

    3.6. Medical Care.

    The Management provides a Participant for emergency free medical aid in the local hospital. The Participants who has health problems, especially chronic ailments, corporal defects and so on, should be rather worried about their comfortable state of health in good time at their own expense. All the Participants should show a certificate on their state of health and the absence of infectious diseases, approved in accordance with established procedure and given by a medical institution, to the Medical service of the Management before the Symposium begins.

    3.7. Information Providing.

    The Management provides the Participants free access to the substantial library, material, archival and audiovisual resources of the Museum.

    3.8. Passage.

    Transportation to the place of carrying out of the Symposium will be conducted for account of the Participants.

    3.9. The Management is also engaged:

    • to create a documentary video film on the Symposium;
    • to popularize the creative work of the Participant in press, on radio and television;
    • to organize the final exhibition of the Participants’ works;
    • to provide the work of the Jury;
    • to organize an interesting and recreational activities.

    3.10. The Participant of the Symposium is engaged:

    • to produce and place a monumental sculpture no less than 5 m high and no less than 1 m wide;
    • a small bell (no less than 10 cm х 20 cm);
    • the Nominal Panel (50 cm x 50 cm) in the commemoration of his sojourn in Opishne;
    • to burn the above-mentioned works;
    • to deliver gratis the works, produced by him to the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne for permanent storage.
  • Determination winners

    IV. THE DETERMINATION OF WINNERS

    4.1.  The works will be estimated by the Jury of the Symposium.  The leading art potters, ceramologists, art critics are its members.

    The Jury works on July 05, 2020.

    The decision of the Jury is final and cannot be a subject of appeal. 4.2.  The Jury gives the following awards:

    • The first GigantoMANIA – 2000 $
    • The second GigantoMANIA – 1500 $
    • The third GigantoMANIA – 1000 $
  • Інформація

    V. INFORMATION

    5.1. Those who wish to attend the Symposium may obtain more specific information in the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne:

І. COMMON REGULATIONS

1.1The International Symposium of Monumental Ceramics in Opishne GigantoMANIA-2020 (hereinafter the Symposium) is a polyfunctional art action, aimed at the revival of the processes of the development of modern pottery art.

1.2. The Symposium is carried out within the bounds of the 12th Week of the National Pottery Shifting The 2020 Shift in Opishne.

1.3. The main purpose of the Symposium is to provide the creative intercourse among craftsmen representing different art trends and schools, the production of highly artistic works of monumental ceramics.

1.4. The main tasks of the Symposium are:

  • to develop pottery traditions;
  • to grow craftsmanship;
  • to exchange work experience among the craftsmen of different art trends and schools;
  • to study the current state and the general trends of the development of Ukrainian and foreign ceramics;
  • to discuss the issues of current importance regarding the theory and the practice of the modern Ukrainian and world ceramics;
  • to popularize pottery art, form the aesthetic tastes of people, procure the various usage of pottery in the everyday life of contemporaries.
  • to integrate the achievements of Ukrainian ceramics with the world pottery heritage;
  • to form the collections of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne.

1.5. The purpose and main tasks of the Symposium will be realized through the common work of art ceramists, presentations of personal art projects.

1.6. The National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne was indicated as the location of the Symposium. [102 Partyzanska Street, Opishne, Poltava Region, 38164, Ukraine; phone: +38 (05353) 42415, 42416, 42417; (050) 9046213; fax:  +38 (05353) 42416, 42175].

1.7. June 03 – July 05, 2020 was indicated as the date of the Symposium.

The date of the arrival of the Participants is June 02, 2020

The date of the departure of the Participants is July 06, 2020

The Symposium will be opened and the creative work begins on June 03, 2020, at 11 a.m.,

in the territory of the Scientific Research Centre of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne (102 Partyzanska Street).

The ceremony of the declaration of the results, the award presentation of the winners, and the solemn closing of the Symposium would be held on July 05, 2020

The Participants could also take part in the events of:

· the 10th National Smithery Festival VakulaFest-ХХІ (29.06 – 04.07.2020) ;

· the 12th International Artistic Festival and Fair PotteryUniverseUkraine-2020 (03-05.07.2020) ;

· the 10th National Competitive Festival of Pottery Bodypainting (BodyCeramicFestUkraine) (04.07.2020);

· the 9th National Pottery Festival (04.07.2020);

· THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION Pottery Visions of the Country (01.01 – 30.10.2020).

II. THE CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

2.1.The art ceramists and sculptors from Ukraine and foreign countries are invited to take part in the Symposium. The total amount of the Participants is up to 7 persons..

2.2.The craftsmen produce works for fixing them in the territory of the National Gallery of the Monumental Sculpture of the Museum of Pottery. The Participants produce a small bell and a Nominal Panel in the commemoration of his sojourn in Opishne as well.

2.3. The filled request and the draft of a creative work (in a paper form or a digital one) should be sent till April 15, 2020, to the Management of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne (hereinafter the Management) to take part in the Symposium. The installation of the future work should be thought out in advance. The sending of a request cannot mean the participation of the author in the Symposium; it can only be regarded as the evidence of his intentions.

2.4. The craftsmen will be also asked to give:

three colour photos (10 cm х 15 cm) or digital photos of their works, that represent the peculiarities of their creative activity in full, their own photos as well as materials, characterizing their art achievements (exhibition catalogues, the photos of their works, video films, art awards, original or copied published works on the author in books or periodicals etc.). These materials, mentioned in the paragraphs 2.3 і 2.4, are decisive in the selections of the pretenders to take part in the Symposium. The information materials will be not given back; they will be accepted in permanent deposit in the National Archives of Ukrainian Pottery. Craftsmen should note what information from the materials, sent by them to the address of the Management, cannot be divulged and published in press, catalogues and so on.

2.5.The requests for the participation in the Symposium, sent after the dead-line, will be not considered.

2.6.The requests for the participation in the Symposium will be considered by the Expert Council, formed and confirmed by the Management. Its staff is not divulged. The Expert Council determines the personnel of the Participants of the Symposium till April 17, 2020. The Management confirms it.

The meeting of the Expert Council is closed; decisions are reached with open vote. The decision of the Expert Council is final and cannot be a subject of appeal.

2.7.The Management sends personal official invitations to take part in the Symposium out to craftsmen on the basis of the decision of the Expert Council till April 19, 2020.

2.8.Craftsmen could present during the Symposium their own art project. They should inform the Management about their respective expectancies and necessary help till May 05, 2020.

2.9.After his arrival to Opishne every Participant will be asked to show an original invitation to the Management. Craftsmen cannot participate in the Symposium without an official invitation from the Management.

2.10.The Participant of the Symposium should give to the Management, together with the application, his written acceptance of the processing of personal records, including portrait photographies, photos during the Symposium, the photos of works, their usage in printed and digital publications, in websites, and in video films of the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne and the Ceramology Institute – the branch of the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The Management secures personal records, given by the Participant from the transfer of them to the third party, with the exception of the cases of their open access through printed and digital publications, websites, video films and so on. The participation in the Symposium is impossible without the receiving of such consent!

III. MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS

3.1.The Management contracts for mutual obligations with every Participant of the Symposium during June 03 – July 05, 2020.

3.2. The Management pays to every Participant of the Symposium a grant of 10 000 hryvnas on the condition, that all the requirements of paragraph 3.10 are fully applied

3.3.The Conditions of Work.

The Management provides a Participant free gratis for:

  • workplaces in temporary creative workshops;
  • raw stuff and materials (clay, chamotte mass, chamotte, gypsum, engobes, glazes, metal oxides, cloth, polyethylene film etc.)
  • instruments (sticks, brushes, rubber syringes, knifes etc.)
  • equipment (pottery wheels, tournettes, compressor etc.)
  • kilns and muffle furnaces
  • maintenance staff’s help during firing
  • the services of pottery restorers, technologist, and laboratory assistant.

The Management provides a Participant free gratis for the above-mentioned raw stuff, materials, instruments and equipment in compliance with his request, given beforehand. The requirements of the Participants, not provided in advance requests, would be satisfied if an opportunity offers.

Creative work will take place in specially equipped individual tents out-of-doors.

3.4.Board.

The Management provides a Participant for free three meals a day.

3.5.  Life.

The Management provides a Participant for free accommodation in the bedrooms of a private Nadiya hotel or in the village. There are separate toilet facilities, shower cubicles, household rooms. The Management does not provide the members of the Participants’ families (wife, husband, children etc.), their friends for accommodation. If they need, they could find suitable and comfortable temporary lodgings in the village.

3.6. Medical Care.

The Management provides a Participant for emergency free medical aid in the local hospital. The Participants who has health problems, especially chronic ailments, corporal defects and so on, should be rather worried about their comfortable state of health in good time at their own expense. All the Participants should show a certificate on their state of health and the absence of infectious diseases, approved in accordance with established procedure and given by a medical institution, to the Medical service of the Management before the Symposium begins.

3.7. Information Providing.

The Management provides the Participants free access to the substantial library, material, archival and audiovisual resources of the Museum.

3.8. Passage.

Transportation to the place of carrying out of the Symposium will be conducted for account of the Participants.

3.9. The Management is also engaged:

  • to create a documentary video film on the Symposium;
  • to popularize the creative work of the Participant in press, on radio and television;
  • to organize the final exhibition of the Participants’ works;
  • to provide the work of the Jury;
  • to organize an interesting and recreational activities.

3.10. The Participant of the Symposium is engaged:

  • to produce and place a monumental sculpture no less than 5 m high and no less than 1 m wide;
  • a small bell (no less than 10 cm х 20 cm);
  • the Nominal Panel (50 cm x 50 cm) in the commemoration of his sojourn in Opishne;
  • to burn the above-mentioned works;
  • to deliver gratis the works, produced by him to the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne for permanent storage.

IV. THE DETERMINATION OF WINNERS

4.1.  The works will be estimated by the Jury of the Symposium.  The leading art potters, ceramologists, art critics are its members.

The Jury works on July 05, 2020.

The decision of the Jury is final and cannot be a subject of appeal. 4.2.  The Jury gives the following awards:

  • The first GigantoMANIA – 2000 $
  • The second GigantoMANIA – 1500 $
  • The third GigantoMANIA – 1000 $

V. INFORMATION

5.1. Those who wish to attend the Symposium may obtain more specific information in the National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne:

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