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NYC Open Call 2020-21 Proposal Ranking

Thank you for participating in the 2020-21 NYC Open Call. We received 512 eligible proposals from 64 countries, which were voted on by an international panel of over 400 jurors. Jurors were asked to read at least 50 anonymous proposals. Over 14,000 votes were cast to determine the winning proposals. Below is a ranking of all submitted proposals in order of highest total score. Proposals with the same total score share place positions and are ranked with the same number.

The four highest ranking proposals were submitted by: Liz Faust (Elongated Shadows), Katarzyna Falęcka (Beyond Metaphor: Women and War), Elizabeth S. Hawley (Native Feminisms), and Earl of Bushwick (Queer-y-ing the Arab: The Canary in the Freedom Mine). 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 four highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming.

Rank ID Score Title
1 461 4.0196 Elongated Shadows
2 315 3.98 Beyond Metaphor: Women and War
3 509 3.902 Native Feminisms
4 417 3.9 Queer-y-ing the Arab: The canary in the freedom mine
5 282 3.86 Fierce Waves
6 391 3.8431 Gathering Clouds: Weather as Media
7 392 3.84 Ask A Fox For Its Skin
8 142 3.7843 Ruinology: unstable machines
8 203 3.7843 THE SUN KISSING THE EARTH AND US
9 329 3.78 FLUID VOICES
9 442 3.78 Phytomanic, Phytopanic
10 470 3.74 See Us
11 195 3.72 We the Sinful Women
11 366 3.72 Charms and Talismens
11 448 3.72 The Imaginary Amazon
11 451 3.72 Drag Now: Remaking Race and Gender
12 24 3.68 Trans-Continental: Exploring the Trans Experience Around the World Through Documentary Photography
12 97 3.68 Out of Existence
13 34 3.6667 The Corner Liquor Store
14 254 3.66 Read My Scarves
14 513 3.66 Vestiges of the future
15 210 3.6538 DIGITAL ART ACTIVISM, PUERTO RICO #RICKYRENUNCIA, JULY 2019
16 139 3.6471 Divining el mundo zurdo
16 251 3.6471 The Am-I-American Dream
16 283 3.6471 Desert Dreamlands: The American Dream in Saudi Arabia
17 436 3.64 Documented
18 328 3.6346 The New Plantation Matrix Conversations| Concerning the Prison Industrial Complex
18 347 3.6346 Bodies Never Lie
19 272 3.6275 Not In Praise of Poison
19 335 3.6275 New Altars for New Tribes
20 122 3.62 LOVE AND LINEAGE (matchmaking in the archive)
21 418 3.6 Site Non-Specific/Specific: Global Industrial Landscape as Exemplified in the New Jersey Meadowlands
22 410 3.5882 The Precarity of Spectacle
22 502 3.5882 Maternal Bodies
23 99 3.5686 The Labyrinthine Opus
24 216 3.56 Leaving Provisional Carrying
25 208 3.549 A State of Grace
26 515 3.54 Postcollapse: East-in-Formation
27 348 3.5294 Sweet and Sour: Imaginary Homelands
28 8 3.5098 Diasporic Dysplasia
28 76 3.5098 Sing the Words I No Longer Speak
29 188 3.5 At Memory's Edge
29 226 3.5 Extimacy
29 300 3.5 Scores to be seen
29 411 3.5 The Grammar of Sovereignty
29 425 3.5 awareWare
30 250 3.4902 Where We All Ride Bamboo Bicycles
30 354 3.4902 solid roof, severe weather
30 426 3.4902 Fluid Home
30 430 3.4902 Geo-poetics of Resistance
31 204 3.4706 Brouhaha
31 339 3.4706 Humans Records on the dying Indus Delta
31 444 3.4706 The People's House of Un-American Activities
31 469 3.4706 Swan Song
32 228 3.46 Tender Buttons
32 270 3.46 Visibility & Vulnerability: Re-Imagining the Queer Archive
32 457 3.46 Lost objects: the power of absent clothes
33 337 3.451 Traced Authority
34 63 3.44 Final return (working title)
34 241 3.44 New Sanctuaries: Reimagining Ideas of Home and Domesticity
35 171 3.4314 On the Uses of History
35 181 3.4314 Salon Selected: Black Hair Is/As Fine Art
35 305 3.4314 Battles in the Desert
35 389 3.4314 Symposium In Blues
35 407 3.4314 Borderline disorder (TBD)
35 450 3.4314 By A Show of Hands
36 184 3.42 Women's Rites
36 343 3.42 You can't go home again
37 141 3.4118 The Queen's English: Who Owns It?
38 243 3.4 SALVAGED
39 455 3.3922 Desire, Deny, Devour
39 479 3.3922 Aftermaths
39 491 3.3922 Within Revolution, Everything[?] Against Revolution, Nothing[?]
40 105 3.38 Food & War at 40°39′40″N and 73°56′38″W
40 140 3.38 Still Waters Run Deep
40 318 3.38 The Amnesia Archive
40 377 3.38 Color Talks II
40 393 3.38 Language Unfolded
40 458 3.38 Capture / Trace / Go
41 131 3.3725 Censored Art Museum
41 180 3.3725 Eutopia!
41 229 3.3725 Queer Intersections
41 434 3.3725 Price Is Right(?)
41 474 3.3725 Whose Land?
41 503 3.3725 Mapping the Invisible (alt title: "I hear the rattling of keys / in the door of our golden history")
42 390 3.36 Dance of Urgency
43 353 3.3529 Wandering
44 245 3.34 Quote—Unquote
44 258 3.34 Water Flows Through US
44 368 3.34 Don't Be Seated
45 172 3.3333 Other Uses for (An)Other
45 200 3.3333 All the things left unsaid: (re)Migration and (re)Memorization
45 323 3.3333 Dancing with Tantalus
46 19 3.3137 Mujeres Caribe: Una exposición sobre la emigración e identidad
46 233 3.3137 ALIVE THEY TOOK THEM AND ALIVE WE WANT THEM BACK / VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARON Y VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS
46 262 3.3137 BORN FEMALE
46 316 3.3137 Rules to Forget
46 319 3.3137 nothing personal
47 475 3.3077 The World's Most Popular Photograph
48 196 3.3 Geometry and Anguish: Ten Mexican Contemporary Artists
48 499 3.3 Seventh Son
49 327 3.2941 Food on the Table
50 71 3.28 Drawing From The Wound
50 330 3.28 The Subject's Narrative (l)
51 20 3.2745 Calling All Divas: lineage, inheritance, fandom, idol worship, transference, and imaginings
51 39 3.2745 In Between These Walls
51 304 3.2745 All Signs Point to Rome, Diane
52 317 3.26 Transformative Potential of Eco Drawing: Drawing With Sun, Plants, and Audience
53 201 3.2549 con + quatere
53 257 3.2549 Native Borders
53 301 3.2549 LIVING IN THE EXCIPIENT. A GENEALOGY OF DIAGNOSIS
54 309 3.24 Wild in the City.
55 58 3.2292 Boys R Girls
56 156 3.2286 Disrupting Language Barriers
56 167 3.2286 Spill
56 271 3.2286 레즈비언! (Lesbian!)
56 293 3.2286 Contingencies
56 299 3.2286 Still Here
56 350 3.2286 Direct Engagement
56 370 3.2286 Red Forest
56 409 3.2286 Marronage - Flights to Freedom
56 424 3.2286 Here/Here
56 452 3.2286 Reflection on Whereness
56 489 3.2286 Your house is my home
56 523 3.2286 Borderlands
57 101 3.2273 Out Of Place
57 246 3.2273 "Could Have Been People Here"
58 121 3.225 SPUNKT
58 236 3.225 I Might Know How You See Red
58 244 3.225 Change of mind
58 375 3.225 Oracles
59 68 3.2222 The Country boy
59 125 3.2222 The Treachery of Object
59 344 3.2222 Stones of Heart
59 351 3.2222 noname.
59 504 3.2222 Bodies In Space: Afrofuturist Claims
59 522 3.2222 Converging Point
60 382 3.22 SEEING & DISBELIEVING
61 60 3.2174 New York Type of Place
62 273 3.2162 Camping in Spain
62 484 3.2162 On the Boundary of Movement: Aesthetics and Black Feminist Performance and Digital Art
62 516 3.2162 The Phenomenal Screen
63 242 3.2143 VIRTUALLY TANGIBLE
63 269 3.2143 What comes after the monument?
63 280 3.2143 Up-cycled: Material Transformations and Critique
63 286 3.2143 Subjects of Desire
64 107 3.2105 Safe, between the covers (?)
64 124 3.2105 Liquid generation. An exhibition in a suitcase
65 297 3.2093 Invasive Apothecary
66 169 3.2083 Location Remote: Tales From The Continent
66 189 3.2083 Fake Love, Real Love
66 190 3.2083 A Mystery and a Monster, a Monster and yet Fog
66 324 3.2083 Ultimatum
66 429 3.2083 Terraforma
67 10 3.2059 Disposable Income
67 30 3.2059 Vuca Collective
67 40 3.2059 vvā
67 119 3.2059 Lost lives or Miscarriage of justice
67 136 3.2059 Geopoetics for a Deep Time
67 155 3.2059 Do Touch
67 162 3.2059 Flowers for the Dead, Silence for the Living
67 168 3.2059 #freethenipple
67 267 3.2059 SMILE LOVE
67 306 3.2059 Fictional Realisms: Redrawing the Map in the Climate Crisis
67 454 3.2059 Identity Markers
68 519 3.2045 Imagine a slice of pizza: between you and the environment
69 420 3.2 Hide and See(k)
70 221 3.1951 Shiraz, city of love
71 224 3.1944 Radical Ventriloquism: Speaking For and Speaking Through
71 494 3.1944 Trace through the Oil
72 360 3.1915 Touching Textiles- Exploring the tactility of craftsmanship processes and material work.
73 90 3.1765 (No) Laughing Matter
73 111 3.1765 THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOW
73 183 3.1765 Day Jobs
73 185 3.1765 Senses of justice
73 238 3.1765 Re-Imagining Open Kinships
73 307 3.1765 SIRENS
73 349 3.1765 Futurity is Not a Luxury
73 413 3.1765 NO REST FOR THE SACRED
73 464 3.1765 Private Parts
73 472 3.1765 PLAY
73 495 3.1765 do you think this is for you?
74 487 3.1714 Overpopulated No Man's Land
75 95 3.1471 Popular Civilization
75 157 3.1471 Hauntings
75 176 3.1471 The Last Feast
75 338 3.1471 WORDS AND WOMEN. WORDS OF WOMEN. WORDS BY WOMEN: TEXT, LANGUAGE AND POETRY IN WOMEN'S ART
75 359 3.1471 Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities
75 401 3.1471 A Renaissance of Yiddish Cinema
75 468 3.1471 Let there be Clamour
75 501 3.1471 Fatoumata Puissanci
76 214 3.1176 OH SAY CAN YOU SEE?
76 379 3.1176 Fixation Amnesia
76 440 3.1176 Stateless maps
77 340 3.0968 Networks of (Be)longing
78 33 3.0938 The Apocalyptic Landscape
78 45 3.0938 Animal Icons
78 46 3.0938 The Digital Eye
78 151 3.0938 We all need shelter, but what is it?
78 202 3.0938 What happens in the desert
78 341 3.0938 Nexus
78 372 3.0938 ICE POLICIES
78 435 3.0938 WUT (Witches Under Technocracy)
78 447 3.0938 sense/response (working title)
78 477 3.0938 Unarchiving the archive: South Atlantic crossroad dialogues
79 239 3.0909 THE SAFE PLACE
79 240 3.0909 One word
79 255 3.0909 Out of Turn, Out of Tune
79 387 3.0909 The Bitches. The Witches. 1,2,3 Baba Yaga Sees...
79 427 3.0909 Fangirls: Love & Theory in Practice (working title)
80 292 3.0882 The Botswana Pavilion: Culture Tube Test
80 431 3.0882 Whose Fault Was It? The Serpent, Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden
80 463 3.0882 OGWATA – The art of walking
80 510 3.0882 Radical Hope
81 405 3.0645 White Affects
82 134 3.0625 Paravane: The Embodiment of Retrieval
82 150 3.0625 Notions of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
82 374 3.0625 Camouflage; the interface between War, Print and Technology.
82 481 3.0625 A Skirt
83 205 3.0588 Nuance: Identity & Representation
84 278 3.0313 Eros Flowering, Enslaved
84 281 3.0313 Psychedelic Video Artifacts
84 284 3.0313 Imagined Homelands
84 289 3.0313 Lights Could Burn
84 333 3.0313 Blood River at The Borders of Fugitivity, Grief and Memory
84 355 3.0313 Song in the Night
84 396 3.0313 Ipso Facto
85 42 3 Seeding
85 231 3 Midnight Club '94
85 295 3 Fashion is not my skin
85 314 3 Mneumonic Fragments
85 394 3 The Real Event - what we register as history today
86 145 2.9688 Nationalism ≠ Patriotism
87 313 2.9677 Imagining new stories
88 363 2.9667 Dwelling
89 449 2.9655 Support Structures
89 456 2.9655 Intersectional Healing: Mechanisms To Claim
90 312 2.9643 Hack for the climate
90 498 2.9643 Non-Spaces
91 25 2.963 Cross-Cities
91 146 2.963 Landscape Portrait
91 285 2.963 Trespassing
91 471 2.963 Convergence 2020
92 310 2.9333 NOMADS LAND. Movement, metamorphose and identity.
93 291 2.9286 The Materiality of Death
93 381 2.9286 Aerobics of the Uncanny Valley
93 437 2.9286 hashtag famous
94 110 2.9259 It's All In The Telling
94 178 2.9259 Unnatural Causes
94 249 2.9259 Common Threads
94 259 2.9259 A Presence in Process
94 462 2.9259 On Terrain and Emblem
94 505 2.9259 "Find optimism in the inevitable."
95 480 2.9231 Stargazer
96 227 2.8889 The Uncertainty of Substance
96 331 2.8889 The Body of the Condemned: Decolonizing the Anthropocene
96 408 2.8889 Memory smell
97 21 2.8571 Hshuma
97 65 2.8571 Making Connections : Of Macrocosms and Microcosms
97 116 2.8571 Common Place
97 130 2.8571 Carnival Prelude: yellowy millennials in our space-time
98 514 2.8519 Machinic Assemblages
99 399 2.8462 Guilt
99 465 2.8462 Uniquely Southern
100 73 2.84 Future Worldings
101 41 2.8333 The Bermuda Triangle
101 265 2.8333 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
101 288 2.8333 IMPRINT: Printing in Contemporary Textile Art
101 383 2.8333 Endgame
102 187 2.8261 Interrogation of Beauty
102 395 2.8261 98 Illusion
103 320 2.8182 Proposed Title: ⌘(CTRL)-Z : Tactile Sanctuaries
103 321 2.8182 Aurora
103 402 2.8182 Schrodinger's urbanism - Is the city dead or alive?
104 87 2.8095 The Art, Science and Politics of Marine Algae
104 213 2.8095 "DARING TO BE DIFFERENT"
104 346 2.8095 Please (don't) take a seat. Objects for video dance
105 193 2.8077 Breaking Borders
106 74 2.7917 the trip
106 147 2.7917 Search for...Equality. The more you search, the less you find.
106 166 2.7917 The Age of Anxiety: Healing Through Art
106 275 2.7917 Appropriating 'I'
107 247 2.7826 Our Social Matrix and Its Human Products
107 336 2.7826 The Compact With Physicality
107 439 2.7826 Traces of Life
108 51 2.7727 Casual Mysticism
108 91 2.7727 The Digital Body Remains, We Are Only Cells and Data
108 123 2.7727 Temporal Hiccoughs
108 279 2.7727 Decode
108 421 2.7727 Porous Bodies: Embodied Knowledge
108 473 2.7727 It doesn't prove anything, except we keep on living
109 287 2.7619 The revelation of nature
109 460 2.7619 The artist was here
110 26 2.7368 Acts of Production or the Stockholm Syndrome
110 27 2.7368 Becoming a Target: The Politics Signaling, Exposing, Labeling and Beyond
110 37 2.7368 As minhas mãos são o nosso mundo (My hands are our world)
110 86 2.7368 The Rule of Gender
110 152 2.7368 Collaboration. Fashion as Art and Fashionable Art
110 248 2.7368 Speaking the Mind
110 290 2.7368 Soon There Will Be Nothing Where There Never Was Anything \ Tarrying With The Nothing
110 322 2.7368 Mercury Was in Retrograde
110 357 2.7368 Nascent Trysteros
110 385 2.7368 Fantoche
110 423 2.7368 in search of the immaterial monument
110 517 2.7368 non-space
111 108 2.7273 The Political Body
111 352 2.7273 The Electricity Deception
111 433 2.7273 Dance is the hidden language of the soul
112 48 2.7143 Blasts, Cries, Laughter
112 165 2.7143 Flemish Primitives > Belgian Surrealists
113 298 2.7 Another Erotic Matter
113 364 2.7 We can't go on together, with suspicious minds…
113 466 2.7 Sanity for Sale?
114 61 2.6842 Vaginas are Lit
114 112 2.6842 "I’ve always thought that the ideal is to do nothing and still be able to make a living out of it..."
114 135 2.6842 Women Travelling Alone
114 144 2.6842 In Praise of Form
114 161 2.6842 Looking Back
114 207 2.6842 Mapping Terra incognita
114 326 2.6842 IMPulse
114 367 2.6842 LAG: Pixel ∙ Line ∙ Touch
114 476 2.6842 Burning down the Internet
114 478 2.6842 Funny Radical : In the 4th Industrial Revolution Era, Is Utility still better than Radical Useless
114 486 2.6842 ¿CUÁNTO TE LLAMAS? EL DINERO EN EL ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO// How much are you? Money and contemporary
114 488 2.6842 CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL
114 506 2.6842 Prisoners of the Sun
114 507 2.6842 Holding It Together
115 222 2.6818 Event Horizon
116 197 2.65 DIFFERENTIATED & INTEGRATED
116 378 2.65 Unruly Complexity of Being Interconnected: "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
117 16 2.6316 Complex Ecologies
117 47 2.6316 Listen With the Ear of Your Heart(h)
117 174 2.6316 AFFINITIES
117 212 2.6316 a right left-wing
117 303 2.6316 Dismantling methodologies of happiness
117 308 2.6316 The Nature of Empathy and the Art of Storytelling
117 422 2.6316 Braking point "Zero"
117 490 2.6316 Embezzlement Of Cultures In A Melting Pot
118 83 2.6 The Wait of Falling
118 215 2.6 I Am Black, But Comely: Queering Frameworks of Faith
118 362 2.6 Let's laugh about IT "Audio/Visual dictionary for sane minds"
118 376 2.6 The Art of Living With
118 415 2.6 CONTACT POINTS
118 453 2.6 Dream swallowing barrier
119 160 2.5789 "Transformation. In Touch with Art"
119 237 2.5789 When Will You March For Me
119 398 2.5789 Pivoting the Box
120 28 2.55 Possibility Bubble
120 302 2.55 Laughing Skulls Motorcycle Club, Extraction
120 356 2.55 Boundaries Borders and Walls - Connecting the World Through Art and Written Word
120 428 2.55 Say her name
121 36 2.5263 my people
121 72 2.5263 Should I Stay or Should I Go
121 129 2.5263 What Can I Say?
121 143 2.5263 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
121 406 2.5263 Fire! Water!
122 115 2.5 Noman's Land: revisited
122 164 2.5 Earthwork : Soulwork , A Continuing Conversation
122 403 2.5 Asian Fusion
122 445 2.5 Flows and invisible identities
122 493 2.5 The Motherhood Penalty
123 159 2.4737 Reaction
123 235 2.4737 Perception/s
123 252 2.4737 Resistance to immigration or the immigration resistance
123 263 2.4737 :: New Human Intelligence ::
123 345 2.4737 Archiving for the future
123 386 2.4737 What happens to the heart
123 432 2.4737 Heart, Lungs, and Genitals — On the Way to Immortality
123 483 2.4737 High-Res / Pixelated Dreams
123 500 2.4737 Dreaming: Red Black and Blue
124 154 2.45 Traversing Dionysus
124 223 2.45 PERCEPTUAL DECONSTRUCTION
125 100 2.4211 MEET THE MPIANAS
125 149 2.4211 Age of Awakening
125 264 2.4211 Recidivism
125 384 2.4211 #ccSPORT
125 482 2.4211 Human Instrumentality Project
126 158 2.4 See the Beauty End the Violence
126 369 2.4 Raiders of the Manthropocene
127 15 2.3684 Transparence
127 17 2.3684 Breaking Through
127 55 2.3684 Pinball
127 138 2.3684 Helicon
127 485 2.3684 Farther than the Ranch
127 496 2.3684 Amazing C-section Stories And Their Awesome Scars
128 52 2.35 WHERE IS HOME?
128 230 2.35 Here Now
129 118 2.3158 Popular Justice
129 220 2.3158 Quiet Eye
129 274 2.3158 UNCOVERING CHANGE-Tools of Transformation
130 77 2.3 Selective Memory Lane
130 80 2.3 The absence as a pretext II
130 81 2.3 Cosmic Non-sense
130 109 2.3 Mambembe
130 332 2.3 The FLASH on a MIRROR
131 43 2.2632 KIN
131 177 2.2632 Femme
131 218 2.2632 hyper states of baing
131 311 2.2632 Home
131 518 2.2632 The Affair
132 416 2.25 Those thoughtful people. Canadian project-based art.
132 446 2.25 Building The Better Feminist
133 59 2.2105 Before I Became You!
133 79 2.2105 Edge of the Abyss (The Day Before - The Day Of - The Day After)
133 268 2.2105 So Close You're Inside: This story is yours as much as it is mine.
133 373 2.2105 The Nouvelle Vague
134 12 2.2 The Queer Side, a Paper Exhibition
135 179 2.1579 Artist Studios
135 234 2.1579 Books by Covers
135 467 2.1579 The map is not the territory
136 78 2.15 Heartbeat: The Return of the Divine Feminine
136 371 2.15 "2020 will not save us, we have to save ourselves"
137 35 2.1053 Conscious Perceptionalism
137 443 2.1053 What do you know about walls?
138 260 2.1 The Art of Rock and Pop
138 441 2.1 Eyelids Fall
138 511 2.1 Genre-Fluid Hallowed Ground
139 57 2.0526 What It Takes Vol 1 Exhibition
140 14 2.05 Performance Art in Virtual Reality
140 225 2.05 Human-filters
141 397 2 Unredacted
142 334 1.95 Space Between Time
143 56 1.9474 Abstraction to Hyperrealism in the 21st Century
143 170 1.9474 Red with passion
143 173 1.9474 Refund Policy
143 400 1.9474 The Spectral is Political
144 29 1.9 Zinc White Lard
145 18 1.8947 Young Line. Young Authors of Photography
145 69 1.8947 Painting as Sorcerer
146 132 1.85 Mother Fucker
147 198 1.7895 Strait Forward, Image Driven
148 380 1.7368 Subsoil of the Body
149 22 1.6 BYBLOS
150 88 1.55 Art for space
151 113 1.5 LIGHT DARK
151 128 1.5 8 from FAME (Fellowship Annual Members Exhibition)
152 23 1.4737 On the water
153 217 1.4737 aarambh means start up