Open Call. SMCK On Reel-Jewelry & Applied Art Video Festival at Grassimesse Leipzig

More than 60 international artists and designers, galleries, and institutions presented their videos in SMCK ON REEL during Munich's Schmuck jewelry week at Galerie Weltraum and Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein - visit SMCK ON REEL website >>> here.

The following Open Call invites artists, designers, crafters, galleries and institutions working with jewelry, textile, glass, ceramics, metal, furniture, toys, fashion etc. to participate in the Second Edition of the video festival.
 
SMCK ON REEL Leipzig takes place 20-23 October 2022 during Grassimesse at GRASSI Museum. 
With five prestigious awards, strong commitment to the crafts through its purchasing program, about 10.000 visitors, and its high standards for quality, Grassimesse Leipzig, Europe’s oldest fair of applied arts, stands beyond competition in the creative sector. 
 
Join SMCK ON REEL Leipzig featuring videos by Karl Fritsch, DIVA Museum Antwerpen, Pureun Culture Foundation, Akademie Für Gestaltung Munich, Legnica SILVER Festival, Grassi Museum and many others. SMCK ON REEL also hosts a pleiad of Ukrainian jewelry artists from Kyiv and the war zone.
 
SMCK ON REEL, the first international video festival inspired by jewelry and applied arts, presents video works in the context of rapidly changing social and aesthetic values. The project highlights tradition and future, memory and identity, environmental destruction and material awareness, femininity and feminism, gender, and social conventions. 
Reels, the art of the moving image, deploy the artist's narrative and enable the public to indulge in the maker's work. Jewelry, crafts, objects not only serve as a starting point for personal stories, but also as a cultural catalyst that can change social values.
 
SMCK ON REEL is curated by SMCK Magazine.
SMCK Magazine's October issue (#8) will feature all SMCK ON REEL Leipzig participants, their videos, work and statement.


How to Apply:
 
1. Artists.
If you are an artist, designer, or crafter, there are three options to participate in SMCK ON REEL:
 
A // Submit a video you made in the last three years, plus a short work statement and bio. Participation fee: 120,00 euros payable in two installments.
OR
B // Submit your concept and attend an individual tutoring/coaching program that will assist you to shoot your video easily and without special equipment. Participation fee: 250,00 euros payable in three installments.
OR
C // Participate in an intensive, three-day e-Residency/workshop that will support you to write your script and shoot your video easily and without special equipment. Participation fee: 290,00 euros payable in three installments.
No application fee is charged.
 
 
2.  Galleries, Studios, Schools, Institutions.
If you own/work in/manage a studio, gallery, school, or institution apply with:
 
1. A short work statement and bio
2. A website or Instagram link
3. A video presenting your studio or venue or work concept
 
Consulting and participation fee: 250,00 euros payable in one or two installments
No application fee is charged.
 
 
3. Ukrainian artists, crafters and designers.
Living in Ukraine or abroad - are welcome to participate in SMCK ON REEL Leipzig fee free.


>> Watch all videos of SMCK ON REEL at Schmuck 2022 Munich online >>> here
 
>> Visit SMCK Magazine: smck.org