PLEASE NOTE:
The deadline for the exhibition has been extended-and the install date is October 29
If you are interested, please get in touch with S’Marie Clay at thearcadespace@gmail.com with images and info ASAP

Arcade Gallery, Call for Submissions, Word 6: An Architecture of
Multimodal Poetry/Text

Deadline: Works or descriptions must be submitted by September 30, 2012, before
midnight, to be considered. (HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!!! SEE ABOVE)

Artists+Writers: Help build the interior of a house which is inhabited by poetry/text that
hangs, opens, closes, locks, rusts, plays loud enough to wake the neighbors, bakes, rings,
burns, drips, melts, fits and bursts from the seams. Themes and interpretations include:
dwelling, gender, domesticity, darkness or light, absence, negative space; symbolism of chests,
drawers, wardrobes, shells, nests, corners, etc. Themes may differ per “room” the poem will
reside in.

Accepted/Encouraged Text Forms: Needlework, clothesline (text printed/
sewn onto clothing), fashion, stained glass window, audio/video (poems
recorded as telephone calls, voicemails audio poem in video) wallpaper,
sculpture (collaborations welcome), furniture, food, refrigerator poetry, floor
mats, installation, performance, dance, and anything not listed that may
survive the houses hold. Take the text off the page and build it into the
house!

Curators encourage anyone interested in participating to contact curators for
assistance throughout the submission process.
Eligibility: Artists/writers residing in the continental United States

Venue: The Arcade Gallery, 618 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Il.
Curator: S’Marie Clay
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All text/poems should be submitted via email to: thearcadespace@gmail.com
along with a cover letter, short bio, and description of the form/object the poem will become