The call is now open in Buenos Aires for the 4th Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory Award in the category of Visual Arts. The call will remain open until April 16, 2012. The competition is organized by the National Human Rights Ministry through the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory (CCMHC), and sponsored by the National Arts Fund (FNA) of Argentina. The event aims to promote poetic production and critical reflection in the field of the contemporary Visual Arts, with a focus on the complex structure of the defense and advocacy of human rights, the active memory, and the collective construction of a solidary citizenry. Open to any discipline, the call will award one work or project-an intervention or installation-that will be assembled in the central hall of the Cultural Center. The competition is open to artists that are Argentinean-born or naturalized citizens, as well as to international artists with at least two years of verifiable legal residence in Argentina. The award offers a purse of $20,000.00 ARS, as a direct payment to the winner; and $20,000.00 ARS that will go to pay for the completion of the general project. The jury panel includes: Laura Malosetti-Costa, Ana Longoni, Fernando Farina, Roberto Echen, and Andrés Labaké. More information, rules, and conditions are available at:
http://www.derhuman.jus.gov.ar/pdfs/BASESCCMHC.pdf