Deadline: 16 March 2025
Applicants are invited to submit project proposals for Art in Odd Places (AiOP): Voice, an outdoor public visual and performance art festival in West Hollywood.
They welcome projects that use installations, actions, gestures, and sound to reflect on the power of Voice. They encourage artists to create spaces where audiences can listen, participate, and reflect—spaces that make complexity visible and foster dialogue. Whether through solo actions or collaborative projects, they seek to consider how art can amplify unheard voices, bridge divides, and reimagine community.
This year’s festival, Voice, asks artists to consider and explore the many ways voices resonate in public spaces. Inspired by West Hollywood’s legacy as a hub for activism and culture, the festival asks: How can art express the complexity of the times? Can art help people find resonance and connection amidst disconnection?
Benefits
- Promotion to AiOP’s network of press and art world contacts.
- AiOP website presence with project info, bios, and links to personal websites.
- Project consultation.
- Advice for artists with a studio practice wanting to work in the public realm.
- Access to a growing community of like-minded artists, curators, and makers working in the public realm.
- All participating artists will receive a modest stipend acknowledging their invaluable contributions to the event.
Eligibility Criteria
- The open call is open to anyone who wishes to apply. Students are not eligible.
Eligible Projects
- Projects should:
- Be self-produced and self-sufficient. Low to no tech.
- Be prepared to move to the three respective locations on each day of the festival.
- Encourage interaction with public space while engaging with pedestrians/passersby and the festival’s focus of Voice.
- Be able to move or be static within public spaces, while being self-contained without impeding the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic by blocking the sidewalk and/or street.
- Engage with West Hollywood’s cultural and architectural landmarks, neighborhoods, multifaceted industries, and communities as a resource for creative consideration.
- Commit to maintaining a presence at the festival location for the duration of all three days.
For more information, visit Art in Odd Places.
