{"id":6246,"date":"2019-02-11T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art.ucla.edu\/jobs\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2019-02-11T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:32:31","slug":"queer-asia-the-british-museum-call-for-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/?p=6246","title":{"rendered":"Call for Artists &#8211; &#8216;Queer&#8217; Asia, The British Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queer&#8217; Asia is seeking art submission for an exhibition to be held at the British Museum, London.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Queer\u2019 Asia is an organisation that aims to create a global platform for inter-Asia collaboration, dialogue, and research on matters affecting people who self-identify as LGBTQ+ or belong to other non-normative sexualities and gender identities in Asia, or Asian diasporas. Alongside an annual film festival, \u2018Queer\u2019 Asia hosts a contemporary art exhibition that features a diversity of artwork to raise awareness of themes and topics relevant to queer struggles. The \u2018Queer\u2019 Asia Art Exhibition draws in a large audience and attracts widespread media coverage; exhibiting artists have been offered to appear on news outlets to discuss their work and have gone on to participate in national and international LGBTQ+ exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following the success of the 2018 art exhibition \u2018Bodies x Borders\u2019, \u2018Queer\u2019 Asia is pleased to announce a contemporary art exhibition to be held at the British Museum, London, in July.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeking artists whose work explores LGBTQ+ content in Asia and\/or within Asian diasporas. Artworks including paintings, sketches, photographs, mixed media (such as collages, montages etc.), textiles, sculptures, installations (including fashion installations) and video\/audio artwork are accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submissions: February 28th 2019<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to apply, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerasia.com\">www.queerasia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions please get in touch with Rhea Tuli at rhea.tuli.09@ucl.ac.uk<br \/>\nTweet at us @TheQueerAsia or follow us on Facebook @QueerAsia and Instagram @queerasia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer&#8217; Asia is seeking art submission for an exhibition to be held at the British Museum, London. \u2018Queer\u2019 Asia is an organisation that aims to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}