Through the Open Call for the upcoming exhibition “Tell the Story, or it goes,” Matca artspace invites video artists to choose stories that cannot be postponed and have an urgency attached to them. This profoundly personal urgency surrounds the stories which need to be told now because they are the most powerful when shared at the right moment.
The project should explore what it means to identify and present stories in a paradigm of needfulness relevant to the present moment. The organizers are interested in any perspective that can touch upon this theme and are open to various interpretations of what it means to you.

The call is open to artists worldwide, either visual artists working with video or filmmakers who can relate to the call’s subject. There is no limit or convention regarding the types of videos/films that will be part of the show, which may vary from experimental film to documentary, fiction, etc. –

The call is open for submissions for a collective show that will take place on the 4th of August. The curator of the exhibition, Irina Hentea, will select at least 20 videos that will be part of the show, which will be configured as a cinema room with a program open to the public for two weeks at MATCA artspace in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 “𝘏𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘢” 𝘣𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 “𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴” (𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭: 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴) 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺.“

HOW TO APPLY
By sending an email at matcaartspacecall@gmail.com until the 24th of July – 23.59 EET; UTC+02:00 // Subject: Tell the Story or it Goes

The videos should have a duration of maximum 25 minutes. Already produced videos will be accepted.

Submissions should include a pdf. portfolio including recent works – or website/portfolio link, and a short synopsis or argumentation of the proposed work, including the video you want to propose + a short BIO of the artist or collective who is applying.
You can submit more than one video for the call if you want. Please do not send us your proposals via transfer platforms that require downloading the content before the deadline, as we might not be able to reach your application.

There is no budget for the selected artists, and there is also no application fee required to submit your proposals.

For this video screening exhibition, MATCA invited Irina Hentea to propose the curatorial concept and select the videos that are going to be exhibited.

Irina Hentea Studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj Napoca in the department of Contemporary Curatorial Practices.

MATCA artspace is an artist-run space managed by three local artists (Alexandru Muraru, Matei Toșa and Alexandra Mocan) that emerged in Cluj-Napoca at the beginning of 2017. Since then it has been following a mindset of shaping its know-how along with its collaborations, most of them being presented in the form of group shows. Underlying the necessity of being in touch with the conscious form of artistic practice and research, the space is coagulating its purposes by drawing a thin border between aesthetics and content, usually choosing to bring out raw forms of expression.

The space is meant as a tool for research into local (or nearby) contemporary art, in order to establish connections with minds that have something relevant to say about the world. Wishing to step more off the walls, MATCA prioritizes alternative forms of expression which mix mediums outside the canvas/frame, not as a form of denying traditional practices, but as a form of getting out of the comfort zone and being open to experimentation and various ways of shaping meaning.

Set up to be a welcoming environment, MATCA`s aim is to fuse what could be meant under the terms of emergent and established into parallel, non-hierarchical dialogues, where the position and the role of the artist in society could be debated. As a former garage/leather crafts workspace, it maintains its undisguised atmosphere and rough vibe that invites artists and thinkers to relate to it in their projects.
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