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NYC Open Call 2021-22 Proposal Ranking

The four highest ranking proposals were submitted by: La Revuelta (Maya Juracán, Renata Alvarez, Jimena Galán Dary, Christa Krings and Andrea López) (Recontarnos (Rewriting Us)), Mae A. Miller (A Thousand Secrets), After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani) (Trans Dance Revolution), and Luiza Testa (Oh, I Love Brazilian Women). 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
1 379 4.0847 Recontarnos (Rewriting us)
2 186 3.9661 A Thousand Secrets
3 400 3.9153 TRANS DANCE REVOLUTION
4 431 3.9118 Oh, I Love Brazilian Women
5 478 3.8955 The Courage of Shutting-Up
6 224 3.8814 Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
7 372 3.8644 Being There
8 57 3.8136 Procedural Romance
8 284 3.8136 UANI (FROM THE BACKYARD)
9 140 3.8 DANCE AS A WEAPON
10 525 3.7797 She's a Knockout
11 223 3.7627 Sane in Insane Places
12 541 3.7458 Nostalgia for Light
13 370 3.6949 A Sense of Time
14 33 3.678 We Pick the Harvest': Race, Labor, and Resistance
14 183 3.678 DIGITAL WETNESS
14 266 3.678 "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"
15 72 3.661 Rising Waters
15 133 3.661 NOWYOUSEEUS - The Hair Shop
15 345 3.661 Imagining Feminist Biotechnologies
15 364 3.661 Third Culture
15 472 3.661 A Haunting Medium: The Visual Politics of Death
16 270 3.6441 Close to Home
16 441 3.6441 The Untouchables
17 236 3.6271 Other Uses for (An)Other
17 299 3.6271 Third Sex : Responding to the Criminalisation of Homosexuality in Samoa
17 329 3.6271 Megalomania and Its Discontents : Designing a New World in Brazil
17 343 3.6271 terrae armatus
17 382 3.6271 Fábulas Patrias: A History of Mexico
17 492 3.6271 <script>
18 318 3.6167 The Self Generator
18 358 3.6102 Grandma's Dough
18 451 3.6102 Monumental Absence
18 506 3.6102 HOLY CARTOGRAPHY! Alternative Mapping in Israeli-Palestinian Contemporary Art
19 294 3.5932 Blood, Sweat & Tears
19 438 3.5932 Breathing While Black: African Americans, Mobility and White Space
20 44 3.5763 Inheritance
20 402 3.5763 Utopian Thinking in Farcical Times
20 410 3.5763 The Female Creative: Empowering and Occupying Spaces
21 21 3.5593 The United States of Intimacy
21 245 3.5593 Common Bread
21 415 3.5593 Transient Echoes in Dreams of Gardens
22 392 3.5424 Waiting Room: Women Healers and Patients on the Periphery of Medicine
22 489 3.5424 Future Ecology
22 537 3.5424 I Miss You So Much: an epistolary romance between old friends, new immigrants, two art students, and
23 171 3.5254 Anti-exhibition
23 340 3.5254 kweer*
23 349 3.5254 Do you hear the silence?
23 380 3.5254 How I See Me: Popular Visual Culture from Afghanistan
23 413 3.5254 An(other) Domain
23 455 3.5254 Gender Scars
24 225 3.5167 Fragile Entanglements
25 277 3.5085 VIOLENCE AND TERRITORY
26 287 3.5085 Necessary Networks: Feminist Art Practices of 1970s New York
26 295 3.5085 No More Stolen Sisters
26 308 3.5085 The art of not being governed: Visual narratives on the Indo-Burma border
26 332 3.5085 Memoirs 2021: The Last Leaf
26 335 3.5085 BREAKING NEWS!
26 353 3.5085 Seeking Solidarity: Amplifying Workers' Voices
26 459 3.5085 Is there love in space?
26 477 3.5085 30 Years Later
27 263 3.4915 The Re-Make
27 389 3.4915 What you are not is self-portrait
27 450 3.4915 Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra-Anxiety.
27 488 3.4915 It's Good to be Black on the Moon (Working Title)
28 378 3.4746 A Political Choreography in Three Living Rooms
28 495 3.4746 The Emperor's New Clothes
29 199 3.4667 Giving Birth
29 298 3.4667 Broken as Beautiful
30 8 3.4576 Abstract Chineseness - Chuang Che, Cheong Soo Pieng, Yang Chihung
30 268 3.4576 Saving Face
30 344 3.4576 Dentro - Fuera
30 369 3.4576 The Landscape of Crisis: How Contemporary Asian Art Visualizes a Time of Devastation
30 442 3.4576 Strange, Stranger, Strangest
30 456 3.4576 Halal brownies, haram desires
30 490 3.4576 The Errant Past
30 515 3.4576 The Border Crossed Us
30 539 3.4576 Dance Macabre
31 333 3.45 Blue Is Like Ocean: 7 Dreams
31 397 3.45 What's in a skin tone?
32 208 3.4407 HFZ
32 209 3.4407 It's only the end, darling!
32 347 3.4407 Murals.We remember.
32 434 3.4407 Permanent Protest: Blockchain and Art
32 463 3.4407 Getting Better - A Toolkit
32 465 3.4407 Past Future / Future Past
32 485 3.4407 The Dark Universe
33 302 3.4237 BALTROP/KNUCKLES/RIGGS: QUEER-BROTHER-ARTISTS-IN-RESILIENCE
33 371 3.4237 Incontinente (A tropical dream)
33 414 3.4237 Scapegoat
33 482 3.4237 HerStory/HairStory
34 241 3.4068 The Matchbox Story
34 258 3.4068 Recognizing the Accomplishments & the Herstory of the WORS Artists
34 381 3.4068 Books(h)elf
34 423 3.4068 Data Fatigue
34 470 3.4068 Amphibian Man
34 484 3.4068 Bow and Arrows
34 496 3.4068 (Re)framing the Landscape
34 522 3.4068 Mayan Futures
35 184 3.4 Essentials: Labor in the Food Industry from N.A.F.T.A. to the Pandemic
35 188 3.4 Imaginary Reality - Artificial Landscaping
36 336 3.3898 Sovereign Bodies
36 421 3.3898 CURARE
36 453 3.3898 What does the world want from us?
37 325 3.3833 Circular Ball
37 435 3.3833 (de)constructing
38 13 3.3729 As if Work Were Life
38 324 3.3729 Home Away: adapting to changes, building a sense of belonging, and how latin artists redefine, inter
38 327 3.3729 En Casa
38 342 3.3729 TODOS SOMOS INDIOS
38 356 3.3729 The Afterlife of a Day (Endless)
38 361 3.3729 The House as a Stage
38 391 3.3729 Transcending Territories 2020: Special Project, Learning Our Mother Language is Our Right
38 473 3.3729 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
38 507 3.3729 CONTACT POINTS
39 27 3.3559 Oddball Saints, Heretic Artists: Radical interfaith exchanges in the Indian subcontinent
39 291 3.3559 As Geo-creatures
39 341 3.3559 Archive as Memorial: An Asian/Pacific American COVID-19 Public Memory Project
39 424 3.3559 Subaltern technologies
39 433 3.3559 Sutured Resilience
39 500 3.3559 The Alternative Art School: Inaugural Quarter Student Exhibition
40 59 3.339 The Overlooked Component
40 216 3.339 NATURAL SATELLITE: Interstellar message in a bottle
40 251 3.339 Nine Artists|Nine Months|Nine Perspectives: Birth of 2020 Visions
40 260 3.339 Renegade Monumentality: Demystifying Eurocentric Prerogatives and Gender Inequality
40 272 3.339 Bridge
40 286 3.339 Other Islands
40 346 3.339 SUMMON: Flowers, Herbs, and Emmenagogues
40 395 3.339 Otra vez el mar
40 398 3.339 Extra Sordid Site and The Tale of The World
40 444 3.339 CONTROL (Borders)
40 462 3.339 Nice to e-meet you
40 504 3.339 Terraforma
40 528 3.339 A cage or really adore
41 280 3.322 Transition zones: body, landscape and border.
41 375 3.322 strong, tender, tired
41 388 3.322 Migratory Us
41 458 3.322 Nine voices, two third of an island
41 468 3.322 Home is Where the _____ is
41 469 3.322 detritus dreams archive
41 493 3.322 Tinctures & Textures of Queer Joy
41 521 3.322 Migration: The Reality of the Virtual
42 50 3.3051 non-identity: we are not what they say
42 235 3.3051 Observations from the Now
42 242 3.3051 Four Chapters of British Class
42 248 3.3051 The Pandemic Lover in the age of revolution
42 533 3.3051 LIES MATTER
43 221 3.2881 THE SUN KISSING THE EARTH AND US
43 273 3.2881 From Zero to Infinity
43 322 3.2881 Room to let go
43 337 3.2881 Make-believe
44 204 3.2712 Body Do
44 265 3.2712 Bathhouse
44 326 3.2712 RIGHTS=RE-WRITES
44 362 3.2712 LET'S EAT!!: food as cultural sensitivity
44 363 3.2712 BLOSSOMING: FIELD DIARIES
44 404 3.2712 Fake It Till You Make It
45 68 3.2542 the lost bride in the broken dream
45 301 3.2542 Rising Out of Crisis: Life After Collapse
45 339 3.2542 Resist and Rebuild
46 368 3.2373 Island Earth
46 384 3.2373 Resilience of liberalism
46 420 3.2373 Wrecked Exotics
47 89 3.2203 Self and Others
47 194 3.2203 @daRoot: Collections from Queer Caribbeans & Queer Caribbean Americans
47 296 3.2203 SHIP TO WRECK
47 502 3.2203 The Triune Nation in Times of Separation
47 511 3.2203 Visual Atlas of the American Monster
48 303 3.2034 Free Fall
48 436 3.2034 necronomy: plants are people are plants
49 131 3.1864 Organic Metropolis
49 408 3.1864 Digital Immigrants
50 151 3.1695 Dintho - A New Science Fiction
50 531 3.1695 MEMORY DRAFTERS
51 46 3.1296 RESET THE APPARATUS!
52 43 3.1277 Placebo - Nocebo
52 427 3.1277 Rebel Objects: Excavating and Unpacking Trauma
52 498 3.1277 Labor: improvised, extravagant but not personal
53 275 3.1273 The Angel, Azrail
54 38 3.125 Revolting Flesh
54 49 3.125 Treatise
54 98 3.125 Perpetuating Colonialism: art, extraction, and the animal kingdom
54 228 3.125 Worked by hand, invented in the mind
55 338 3.122 Affiliate Links
56 523 3.12 Stigma
57 190 3.119 pandemic blues A REDRESS
57 261 3.119 CONTAIN YOUR FEAR
57 282 3.119 Digitally Banished by the Coronaviridae
57 350 3.119 Undoing: Our Gorgeous Paralysis' and Convivial Yawns
57 393 3.119 Fading Memories
57 480 3.119 [Work Title:The Eye-Catchers]
58 524 3.1132 Pearls B4 Swine
58 239 3.1087 Apogee
59 230 3.1064 Our Stadium
60 229 3.1034 At Risk
60 405 3.1034 Safe (●) place. I don't know where I'm going because I've never been there.
61 172 3.0976 Non-existent
62 255 3.0952 Algorithmic Dreaming
62 373 3.0952 Hidden knowledge, forgotten languages
63 461 3.093 Pyr Pantechnos
64 134 3.0714 Revealing Masks
65 288 3.0476 Sui Generis: color of movement flesh of sound
66 168 3.0294 Essentials: Art and Community in Times of Covid
66 206 3.0294 Possible Futures
66 304 3.0294 PLOT
66 401 3.0294 The Agency of Material Things
66 479 3.0294 Hyperspectral Movements
66 526 3.0294 Scorched Earth (Working Title)
67 10 3.0286 Free to fly
67 226 3.0286 Verify Your Identity
67 501 3.0286 "Mexico land of passions"
68 311 3.0278 Chorophobia/Chorophilia
68 443 3.0278 Ghosts and Monsters
69 156 3.0263 Neo-Mexicanism thinking
70 278 3.0256 Void recognition
71 445 3.025 ACCULTURATION, MISCEGENATION AND SYNCRETISM
72 491 3.0244 Hypnos
73 18 3 Enter the Dragon
73 217 3 Context
73 218 3 Stigma, A Mark of Disgrace
73 252 3 Boomerang
73 354 3 The Poiesis of Composting
73 390 3 UNDER (VISUAL) ARREST: SURFACE, SEDUCTION AND THE SLOW REVEAL
73 406 3 The Body in Algorithms
73 437 3 Ctrl [Alt] Self '
73 447 3 The Disruptors
73 449 3 Off-white
73 527 3 Garbagia: the future
73 529 3 R E D B E T W E E N T H E L I N E S : Six Portraits of Life & Art Under Quarantine
74 232 2.9697 Capitalist Neo-Realism
74 334 2.9697 Layers
74 475 2.9697
75 51 2.9688 Imagining queer utopias
75 289 2.9688 The State of the Machine
76 250 2.9677 Habitability
76 264 2.9677 Mexico, Mexico rra rra rra!
76 300 2.9677 Socialism or Bust
76 426 2.9677 Tactic Terrain
76 474 2.9677 Fly in the New Sky
76 483 2.9677 VIVA CANALHA
77 359 2.9375 Poetic abstractions is what we need
78 61 2.9355 Psychopomp Sound Bath
78 310 2.9355 A Willing Intimacy
78 313 2.9355 Art will never die!
78 452 2.9355 In Transformation We Heal
79 39 2.9063 Omubiri SSI Kibbo (The Body is not a Basket)
80 29 2.9032 out the gap
80 200 2.9032 Cosmic Territories
80 306 2.9032 Resistance-19
80 407 2.9032 Performing Faiths : Queerdom, Christianity, Womanhood
80 487 2.9032 But if I'm alive I'm strong/ as life / Strong as the violets
81 22 2.871 Ot
81 403 2.871 Self –Portrait of the Artist on the Block Staircase
81 422 2.871 Habitat
82 138 2.8519 MOTHER'S ROOM
82 154 2.8519 POSITIVE DICHOTOMY
82 155 2.8519 I, Object
82 189 2.8519 Chapters
82 231 2.8519 THE HUMAN BEYOND: bioart, installation art, and photography
82 240 2.8519 Conversation Starter
82 243 2.8519 The Grabbing Hands
82 315 2.8519 Not Really Strangers
82 323 2.8519 Liminality
82 355 2.8519 New Mundane -Nueva Cotidiana-
82 417 2.8519 Still our Bodies: Revisiting Reproductive Technologies
82 446 2.8519 Guns, Germs, and Steal: Postcolonialism From a Pandemic Perspective
82 518 2.8519 Mark Zuckerberg
83 366 2.8333 Tactual
83 399 2.8333 False Prophecies
84 516 2.8276 auricular intangible
85 497 2.8214 Above and Below: Coping Reservoirs
86 55 2.8148 I would prefer not to
86 58 2.8148 Something is Happening
86 60 2.8148 WINDOWS
86 185 2.8148 The Unconscious passport
86 374 2.8148 Counter-forensics: memories of present times
87 367 2.8077 CONTRAEDENIA
88 279 2.7931 Contaminated/Contain
88 464 2.7931 The Texture of Recollection
89 6 2.7778 Guerrero live
89 213 2.7778 Considerable strength
89 305 2.7778 Dignity
89 352 2.7778 2020?
89 448 2.7778 Elemental Topologies
89 466 2.7778 Adhesion - augmented world
89 510 2.7778 After Life As Property
90 385 2.75 Maybe you're just not a thinking sapiens
91 254 2.7407 In Humanity
91 481 2.7407 ... identified by her ring, by her husband.
91 519 2.7407 A Kind of Animal
92 202 2.7037 A Thousand-Eyed Island
92 246 2.7037 Enhance your soul
92 262 2.7037 Wild and Wonderful
92 269 2.7037 Power&Paper
92 365 2.7037 The Gift and the Ledger
93 207 2.6667 ERRATIC
93 267 2.6667 Cultura: dentro y fuera del museo, yesterday and today
93 307 2.6667 More Reality with your fries?
93 418 2.6667 Whatever happened to the white working class?
93 429 2.6667 Slavic undertones in art
93 457 2.6667 THERE IS NO THERE, THERE
93 460 2.6667 Public Roots and Beaten Tracks
94 37 2.6538 Meraki
95 69 2.6296 “Common thread”
95 136 2.6296 Paths
95 193 2.6296 Symptoms
95 317 2.6296 Transmission from the street
95 411 2.6296 MAFA19
95 432 2.6296 PERCEPTUAL DECONSTRUCTION
95 499 2.6296 Drawing the entrails of the machine: speculative past and unlikely devices
95 509 2.6296 Salsa Dancing in my Room: Home as a Resistance
96 11 2.5926 heterotopia
96 17 2.5926 Revelations
96 82 2.5926 UNDER CONSTRUCTION
96 153 2.5926 The Problem of Awe : Personal Mythologies, Uncertain Histories
96 508 2.5926 Recent History
97 471 2.5556 FF-20XXX
98 23 2.5385 ERUTAN NAMUH
98 219 2.5385 Only concerned with what is not mine: Colonial and Decolonial relations from a cannibal perspective
99 281 2.5185 The Hell
100 383 2.5172 Women want each other alive!!
101 244 2.4815 Alpha
101 253 2.4815 Allegories
101 476 2.4815 Trecento Workshop
101 534 2.4815 Interiors
102 85 2.4444 We Know Nothing About Everything
102 191 2.4444 SOS
103 28 2.4074 Without An Address
103 357 2.4074 Propositions for a Revolution
103 467 2.4074 Coming down from the pedestal of speciesism
104 396 2.3929 Art, Science and Technology in Post-Soviet perspective
105 35 2.3704 A polite fuck you to art school
106 276 2.3333 Science of art or ancestral science
107 132 2.2593 Roots
107 196 2.2593 rostrum. the hospitality of the drawing.
107 292 2.2593 Flush Away
107 440 2.2593 Infinite
108 70 2.2222 Pop up!
108 137 2.2222 NDN Unorthodox Symmetry
108 387 2.2222 REVISION
108 520 2.2222 salvation trip
109 486 2.1852 watching
110 48 2.1481 Flowers of Time
110 494 2.1481 Sprechstimmen 2021
111 428 2.1111 Let's meet up!
112 234 2.0741 my proposal, working title, urban naive art
112 256 2.0741 Bird Island
112 425 2.0741 eternal vision
113 321 2.037 Patience. Look twice.
113 377 2.037 HOPE
114 532 1.963 What's for Lunch?
115 412 1.9259 Hair that defies gravity...Skin that absorbs the sun...
116 143 1.8889 Effects of abuse
117 247 1.8148 Skinsoul
118 41 1.7407 nighty (infrared art) visions
119 257 1.6667 The inner journey