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NYC Open Call 2022-23 Proposal Ranking

The five highest ranking proposals were submitted by: Eimi Tagore-Erwin (KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History), Clark Stoeckley (Kafala: Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula), Marie Meyerding (Defiant Visions), Corina Apostol, Tashima Thomas (Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art), and Julia Hartmann ("My Pen Won’t Break, But Borders Will"). The NYC Open Call accepts ideas for group exhibitions to be presented at apexart, 291 Church Street, in New York City. The organizers of the five highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming.

Rank ID Score Title
1 395 3.978 KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History
2 279 3.9022 Kafala: Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula
3 26 3.8222 Defiant Visions
4 249 3.809 Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art
5 38 3.7912 "My Pen Won't Break, But Borders Will"
6 119 3.7614 Being There
7 369 3.7444 Welcome Home
8 436 3.6593 Not Your Sci-fi Fantasy, De-Orientalizing Our Future
9 259 3.6374 Art Up in Arms
10 319 3.6333 Weeds?
11 374 3.6264 Home Invasion
12 209 3.6196 The Radiant Forest: Plant Medicine/ Art Medicine
12 281 3.6196 Women and the Criminal Legal System
13 352 3.5978 COLLECT POND
14 323 3.5778 A Secret Museum of the Workers Movement
15 266 3.5652 NO ENGLISH, NO SPANISH: ENCOUNTERS IN ISOLATION
16 241 3.5591 Weaving female perspectives from ancient Latin America to the future
17 219 3.5495 Voicing powers
17 438 3.5495 Afterlives: On Militarism and Empire
18 426 3.5281 Waterbeds
19 229 3.5161 I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill
20 193 3.5109 Fragile Strength
21 82 3.5056 Deranged Marriage
22 348 3.5054 Botanical Arsenal: Plant[ation] to Prison[er] Pipeline
23 370 3.4946 Don't Diverge. The crowd as a mechanism of resistance in the works of Eastern European artists.
24 232 3.4943 Henri's Holiday
25 35 3.4891 "The curse of being completely sorrounded by water" (in process); "La maldita circunstancia del agua"
26 148 3.4516 The Ocean's Dark Verses
26 431 3.4516 Conflict of Crops: Weaving Jumbie Time & Textures
27 108 3.4444 Assemblage, Rememory
28 358 3.4301 finery until forever
29 335 3.4222 Museum of Black Joy
30 270 3.4205 Three Women (after a film by Robert Altman, 1977)
30 306 3.4205 Meta-mophosis
31 427 3.4176 Suturing The Personal
32 411 3.4111 FAKE IT!
33 228 3.3956 TO THIS DAY
33 363 3.3956 Descendants: Enslavers & Enslaved
33 385 3.3956 Utopias You and I Dream
34 252 3.3889 In the Room
35 258 3.3736 TIME CLINIC (a curated & curative exhibition)
36 224 3.3708 Healing through the silent memory of 'Abya Yala'
36 423 3.3708 The Heritage Awakening: Decolonial Fabulations for Abya Yala's Material Culture
37 20 3.3667 Originality, Creativity and Contemporaneity: Feminist Voices from Pakistan
37 37 3.3667 Green
37 418 3.3667 Category is...
38 346 3.3656 Rituals of Re-membering
39 51 3.3556 The Emancipation of Everyday Life
40 382 3.3478 She's a Knockout
41 442 3.3441 SUPPORT
42 331 3.3407 'O Oysters' said the Carpenter'
42 414 3.3407 The future of the Occult
43 264 3.337 Divining for Comedy
43 425 3.337 Many sacred resist
43 454 3.337 Misogyny and Climate Denialism; Dissected through Ecofeminism
44 189 3.3333 The Banana Personified
44 357 3.3333 [De] Colonial Cartographies
44 377 3.3333 Symbiotic Systems: Art Process and Scientific Method in the Anthropocene
45 11 3.3261 "Soro Soke''- Speak Up
45 13 3.3261 A better person
45 387 3.3261 Why Are There No Great Working - Class Artists?
46 272 3.3194 Marigold Seeds
47 407 3.3111 Horror as politics of indigestion
48 80 3.3043 My heart is not here
49 251 3.2967 Body of Mandinga
49 307 3.2967 World made flesh
49 353 3.2967 Soy lo que soy para sobrevivir lo que somos (I am what I am to survive what we are)
50 403 3.2935 The Garden of Earthly Delights
51 99 3.2903 We forgot how to be human. Central America group exhibition.
51 152 3.2903 Under My Skin
52 321 3.2857 Are You Experiencing The Elephant That I'm Experiencing?
53 162 3.2791 Glimpsing the Minescape
54 327 3.2747 at Dawn we dance, at Dusk we sing a song
55 253 3.2717 Here I am
56 147 3.2667 On a Moving Ground
56 445 3.2667 Sing our legacy in the sunlight
56 451 3.2667 I Miss You So Much: an epistolary romance between old friends, new immigrants, two art students, and
57 177 3.2609 The road of braids
58 344 3.2556 Truthiness
59 79 3.25 I have nothing to hide
60 242 3.2391 Reclaiming the Rainbow
60 302 3.2391 Inclusion, Representation and Effective's of Change.
61 349 3.2366 Art My Mom (Probably) Won't Like
62 375 3.236 Chronosphere
63 47 3.2308 I Don't Know What To Do With That Information
64 220 3.2222 THRIFT
65 299 3.2198 A Loaf of Bread, a Slot Machine and a Splash of Paint listen to the Radio
66 126 3.2159 Borderline/Bloodline: LatinX Iconography in Mixed Media
67 116 3.2065 The Care Manifesto: Killing vampyroteuthis infernalis
68 192 3.1978 Strategies of Belonging
68 328 3.1978 Intervening Islands
69 234 3.1957 River: The River as Metaphor in Contemporary Art
69 452 3.1957 Deep Fashion: Subverting the Hierarchy
70 421 3.1935 Ancestral Archives: the diversity of our central american roots
71 24 3.1889 We speak in Tongues 
71 326 3.1889 SHE HAS A PLANT
71 343 3.1889 Subaltern Futurism
72 443 3.1848 East-East Vol.5: Personal Jurisdiction
73 448 3.1828 When the hours lose their clock
74 129 3.1778 One Goat and Three Birds
74 206 3.1778 A Pain That Doesn't Go Away
74 368 3.1778 Looking for Common Melodies
75 351 3.1648 Revolution or Voçoroca
76 400 3.1646 AIDS means eating too much candy
77 447 3.1573 Body Cathartic
78 393 3.1556 Are We Allowed To Love Our Blood?
79 398 3.1538 The Feminine Amazonia - A Amazônia Feminina
80 285 3.1429 I never heard a mermaid cry
81 267 3.1319 NEOBIOME
81 298 3.1319 Tanrı Görmesin Harflerimi / God must not See the Letter of my Script
82 186 3.1236 Project Lazaretta
83 218 3.1222 Learning to scream it
83 381 3.1222 The Art of Comedic Timing
84 360 3.1209 Stitching affect
85 246 3.1183 Australian Accessible Arts (title not set in stone)
86 187 3.1124 Nocturnal II
87 149 3.1099 PLAYING HOUSE
88 59 3.1059 Bokamoso(1Future)
89 408 3.1011 Conflict border
90 410 3.1 Let's Discuss Offline
91 133 3.0989 Aporetic
92 332 3.0978 Neither/Nor
93 354 3.0795 Body Digitized
94 333 3.0778 Restarting from Desire
95 276 3.0667 in these waters there's a place where stories drown
96 236 3.0652 Fight today to not die tomorrow
97 110 3.0568 a diptych of decay
97 308 3.0568 FANMADE PUBLIC ART
98 134 3.0549 I Do, I Undo, I Redo
98 257 3.0549 Bunker with swimming pool
99 128 3.0543 Modality
100 98 3.0538 thingNY: Concertos
100 154 3.0538 On Gifts
100 243 3.0538 Traces Entre Medio
101 422 3.0455 Recovering the heterogeneity within
101 432 3.0455 Ghostly Figuration
102 365 3.0449 A Righteous Place
103 188 3.0444 Geological Eye. Stratigraphy of a Legacy
103 230 3.0444 Opaque blood and other (in)visibilities
104 122 3.044 SUB-URB
105 64 3.033 A Cats Craddle
105 394 3.033 Flow of the moon
106 233 3.022 Bodies in the dark: the aching eye of the beholder
107 10 3.0215 Relational Aesthetics
107 366 3.0215 The Kid Stays in the Picture
108 330 3.011 RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE
109 378 3.0109 Magic Wand: Sexuality Now
110 200 3.0108 Nitakujengea Kinyumba na Vikuta vya Kupitia [A home for you I will create, with exit pathways]
111 25 3 I Belong
111 142 3 The Future We Speak
112 194 2.9891 Everyday Altar
113 215 2.978 ...tell me some secrets, don't tell me lies
113 226 2.978 Stabbed Egg: Oozing Men & Masculinities
113 439 2.978 Theatrical Insiders
114 137 2.9773 Finis Terrae
115 19 2.9674 Try to Forgive
116 361 2.9663 We Love Sensorama
117 413 2.9565 Are We Generating Post-colonial Art Yet?
118 109 2.956 Reconstructed Memories
119 392 2.9559 R E C L A M A T I O N
120 364 2.9545 POTI
121 114 2.9444 Understudy
122 66 2.942 The art of losing control: Esoterism and Rationalism with a collateral logic
123 102 2.9412 Untitled
123 292 2.9412 Three Trans in Three Trees
124 367 2.9403 Betwixt Land and Sky
125 404 2.9394 In Nature Nothing Exists Alone
125 434 2.9394 COAL-BLACK ENTROPY
Rank ID Score Title
126 168 2.9385 e holo nei me nā ʻūpā (subtitle: Longing | Belonging)
127 205 2.9355 Reforesting Bodies, Re-Enchanting Territories
128 127 2.9348 Slit and Cylinder or The Camera's Kin
128 201 2.9348 "Pairings"
128 256 2.9348 I found my ID in the trash
129 65 2.9341 DigiBition Exploration
130 174 2.9275 Ecologies of Fear
130 390 2.9275 Common Currency
131 139 2.9265 Imagine other ways of resistance
132 208 2.9247 Me, myself and I
133 310 2.9231 inanimate remembrance membranes
134 254 2.913 Invisible Female Labour. On the reception of feminine materiality (provisional title)
134 286 2.913 The Unreal.
135 428 2.9111 A Delicate Dance: Remembered Promises
136 69 2.9091 Flux
137 273 2.9074 Disappointment
138 239 2.9022 An exchange for imagination
139 325 2.8947 Guns, Germs, and Steal: Postcolonialism From a Pandemic Perspective
140 300 2.8925 Season of the Witch
141 105 2.8923 Every Chicken You Have Ever Eaten
142 231 2.8889 Edible Bonds
143 121 2.8804 Distorted Icons in Contemporary Art: An Examination into How We Know What We Know and Why
144 130 2.8772 the earth is a woman
144 169 2.8772 Loud or Soft
144 237 2.8772 ABSENT EMPTINESS
145 214 2.871 Breathe
146 350 2.8644 (Nonlinear) Present Futures Entraining Lab
147 160 2.8621 Playing with fire
147 396 2.8621 Where Men Go To Beat Their Chests
148 260 2.8587 Kairós, on the verge of after.
149 101 2.8545 Human strike. Caring for the breakdown
149 104 2.8545 J O U V E N C E
149 320 2.8545 Planet pleasure
149 401 2.8545 Impossibility of Non-Human Mind and the Rise of Animal Instincts
150 100 2.8519 I is Somebody Else
151 163 2.8406 The eye of a minor god: ascendant drive and aerial post photography
152 4 2.8393 Existential Territories
153 379 2.8333 TARANTELLA
154 176 2.8308 Repurposed Abstraction
155 199 2.8302 Life Beyond Earth: A Collision of Unheard Voices
156 280 2.8136 Straightjacket
157 235 2.8103 Deeply Fake
158 329 2.807 I might just die with a smile on my face......
158 416 2.807 Estuary
159 316 2.7931
160 143 2.7895 Re:defining bodies
161 136 2.7719 FEMINIST POWER
161 283 2.7719 "Gaia's Robes: The Climate (R)Evolution"
161 406 2.7719 EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
162 383 2.7636 UNKNOWN
163 45 2.7544 Hermes Trismegistos Dreams of Futures within Futures (While Zhuang Zhou Eats a Butterfly)
164 340 2.75 My anxieties are your anxieties, your anxieties are my anxieties (working title)
164 347 2.75 Private matter
165 170 2.7455 Sacred Thread
165 261 2.7455 Not telling the story, is allowing it to repeat itself
166 296 2.7368 Intrahabit
167 27 2.7321 Recovery Room
168 210 2.7241 Fleeting Slumber
168 341 2.7241 These Many Returns
169 191 2.7193 Alpha
169 337 2.7193 The Truth Will Kill You
170 184 2.7111 Patterns of imaginary and real
171 185 2.7045 Acts of transaltion
172 63 2.7018 Inconforms: some anti-colonial samples
172 240 2.7018 Busca (search)
172 386 2.7018 The Zone
173 202 2.6981 Nature Morte
174 391 2.6977 This Must Be The Place
175 317 2.6957 Satellite
176 197 2.6909 Eclipse of the real
177 150 2.6842 HIDDEN ELEMENTS
177 355 2.6842 The Now is never Yesterday, nor is it Tomorrow
177 441 2.6842 Stretched Skin, Salted Prayers
178 293 2.6818 New Totems (an installation of works on paper, accompanied by an audio soundtrack)
179 216 2.6786 GLOCAL SOUND SHAPES MATTER
180 211 2.6744 Superegg
180 244 2.6744 Hues of Print
181 81 2.6667 Techxpressions(22)
181 303 2.6667 Crypto
181 430 2.6667 A Colorful History of the World
182 107 2.6591 "I had wanted to say to you"
182 173 2.6591 SteelSeaHuman
182 223 2.6591 Excavated Selves
182 269 2.6591 Redesigning Research
183 334 2.6545 Crystalline mirrors
184 204 2.6444 Cuerpos Mutables – Territorios sin fin. ¿Dónde habita la intimidad? (Mutable bodies – Limitles
185 166 2.6429 Cracking Up: A hilariously serious art-centred journey into our madness.
186 5 2.6222 Celebrating and Envisioning Utopia
186 290 2.6222 That's Not How The Story Went . . .
187 179 2.619 Force of Nature
187 301 2.619 Mobile things, people and ideas.
188 87 2.6136 Work work work no balance? Vertigo is a symptom, rather than a condition itself
189 433 2.5952 Carpe momento
190 415 2.5909 A Very Tender Affirmation
191 289 2.5714 Shameless
192 336 2.561 Peace by Piece
193 373 2.5593 A Rough Guide to Otherness
194 314 2.5476 Overwriting. What if one grammar just isn't enough?
195 183 2.5455 To Save Myself, I Had To Let You Die
195 444 2.5455 Never ending changes, self-utopia: Mom what is earth? Self-utopia is otherness...
196 195 2.5439 We Speak Our Truth: Through Mamas Eyes
197 22 2.5435 Becoming Art: 15 Strangers in a Room without Masks
198 288 2.5349 visions of the city
199 417 2.5333 My Mom Did That
200 282 2.5116 Transformation
201 83 2.5 DARK POOLS
201 97 2.5 Generation Z: the generation of networks
201 419 2.5 of materials and places
202 190 2.4773 Digital Mysticism
203 287 2.4762 Exhibition of people who are constantly approached by the police
204 181 2.4634 Plan XX from Nowhere
205 265 2.4524 Kalhygge
206 274 2.45 What a shame!
207 58 2.4444 The Ocean refuses no river
208 313 2.4419 Food for Soul
209 384 2.4318 Red line: the invisible pain of being a woman 71,2.4286,Here After"
210 71 2.425 Here After
210 221 2.425 Collaborate AI
211 248 2.4186 MAKE AGENDA GREAT AGAIN
211 312 2.4186 Black Mirror Shard
212 159 2.4091 CHARM
213 324 2.4048 Sabraj
214 297 2.3953 Avvento dell'attesa
214 389 2.3953 The New Renaissance Marshmallow Sculpture AR-T
215 268 2.381 F*ck your boys club
216 196 2.3556 DigiAna group exhibition
216 359 2.3556 Subject of Reality
217 402 2.3421 The rights of audience
218 420 2.3415 Fractures and fragmentations, deployment as strategy .
219 339 2.3409 Albedo
220 164 2.3333 COLORED until BLACK
221 435 2.3171 Angelic Galactics
222 212 2.3095 PLEASE
223 262 2.2955 Not yet determined
224 145 2.2927 It is like art sometimes
225 95 2.2889 East Indigenous/ Color Code Switch
226 437 2.2791 A CHILD
227 203 2.275 Landscape Double State
228 309 2.2558 THE GREEN GOLD
229 222 2.2273 Fears and Desires
230 263 2.2 3 daughters of 3 kings
230 399 2.2 Verbatim
231 165 2.1628 Vaccination?
232 172 2.1429 Women empowerment
233 156 2.1395 Therapy
233 247 2.1395 ATHENNAS
234 106 2.1364 Breaks the inherent boundaries of traditional
235 255 2.0714 Innocence, my origin; Quest, my ordeal; Mirage, my canvas.
236 167 2.0698 The Facts of Life: ROSES and THORNS
237 88 2.0682 Therapy Art Exhibition series
238 120 2.0488 SEMIÓTICA
239 117 2.0238 Exploring Emptiness
240 77 2.0233 Zyklus
241 175 2.0222 Nathalie au cristal
242 56 2 Uplifting, Connecting & Raising
243 96 1.9762 What's in the way
244 238 1.9524 CONFESSED BODY
245 75 1.881 Soul Women
246 6 1.878 Living on a flying carpet
247 450 1.8667 The title of this exhibition is "CRISALIDAS"
248 161 1.8636 $Permanent queer
249 8 1.8409 MARIOS (3 DIFFERENT ONES)
250 294 1.775 N/A
251 111 1.7556 Why art?
252 198 1.7209 Cybership NYC
253 217 1.619 COVID-19 aka BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
254 144 1.6136 Masked Faces, Open and Closed Spaces
255 171 1.5952 Flying through hope
256 21 1.425 Repair The World: A How To Guide