Free City is a three-day international public art festival that will take place in Flint, Michigan from May 3 to 5, 2013 in and around an abandoned, former Chevrolet manufacturing site known as Chevy-in-the-Hole. Flint Public Art Project seeks proposals for performances, light sculptures, video projections, DIY machines, homemade inventions, and temporary events to fill the Chevy site day and night with a critical mass of striking, strange, and beautiful images. 15 proposals will be awarded up to $1,000.
Free City will create a highly visible symbol of the Flint's ongoing transformation, reconnecting residents to the site and building awareness of its potential as an open space.
Although the festival is open to all kinds of work, we especially encourage projects that engage local residents, institutions, and community groups in the planning, construction, and design of installations and performances...
connect to surrounding neighborhoods visually, physically, or thematically...
address the specific characteristics of the Chevy site, including its physical conditions and current uses, its geological, industrial, and social history, and other environmental qualities.
We're looking for projects that respond in creative ways to the themes of reclaiming and transforming - by using salvaged materials, for instance, or incorporating everyday objects, actions, and processes into a performance.
Email us at freecity@flintpublicartproject.com.
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Read about the project at Art in Odd Places.
