Kaldor Public Art Projects is looking for an Australian

artist to create our 45th Anniversary Project.

kaldorartprojects.org.au/yourverygoodidea

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For 45 years Kaldor Public Art Projects has invited the worlds leading international
artists to create groundbreaking Projects in Australia. These projects have resonated
around the world and have transformed Australias contemporary art landscape.

For the first time in our history Kaldor Public Art Projects is asking Australian artists to
tell us about YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA, which will be realised as our 45th Anniversary
Project.

We want you to share your innovative, site-specific concept which will manifest as a
temporary art project in Sydney. We want to hear about ideas which appear in
unexpected spaces, or in landmark sites reimagined, which will inspire the local public
and our friends and followers both in Australia and around the world.

We want to add you to the long list of visionary artists weve worked with, including
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Thomas
Demand and Tino Sehgal.


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WHO CAN APPLY:
! Australian artists (citizens or permanent residents).
! Artists who work with (but not limited to): performance, installation, sculpture, photography,
sound and digital media.
! Artists with at least 3 years of practice and exhibition history.
! Individuals or partnerships/collaborations/groups.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
! An original idea at the cutting-edge of contemporary art practice.
! An ambitious idea, but not impossible.
! A temporary artwork: The work may be exhibited for a period of 1 week or up to 1 month
and will be deconstructed at the conclusion of the project.
! A site-specific work located within the boundaries of the City of Sydney
(http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/council/our-responsibilities/areas-of-service), which
utilises unexpected spaces or a well-known landmark site in a surprising way. Consider the
accessibility of the site will members of the public be happy to journey to the location? Will
audience numbers be limited by the obscurity or location of the space?
! An Australian project with potential to resonate globally.

THE SUCCESSFUL IDEA:
! The chosen concept will become Kaldor Public Art Projects 45th Anniversary Project and
will be realised in the City of Sydney with the artist working closely with the Kaldor Public Art
Projects exhibition team.
! All material and marketing costs will be covered by Kaldor Public Art Projects
! The successful artist will receive a $5,000 artists fee.
! Kaldor Public Art Projects will cover any necessary travel, accommodation and per diem
fees if the successful artist needs to travel to Sydney to realise the project.


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HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA:
! Follow the link to the online submission form at kaldorartprojects.org.au/yourverygoodidea
! YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA must be submitted by 9am Monday 26 May, 2014
! If you have questions regarding YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA, please email
yourverygoodidea@kaldorartprojects.org.au

WHAT YOU WILL BE ASKED TO SUBMIT THROUGH
THE ONLINE FORM:

About you:
! Your contact information
! 250-word description of your practice
! 1 page Artists CV upload word doc or pdf
! 250-word Artists biography
! Examples of previous works - You can upload a maximum of 5 images, with a maximum file
size of 2mb.
! 50-word maximum description of each image

About YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA:
! Title of proposed project
! 100-word brief overview of the project
! 500-word detailed project description
! 1000-word extended project description
! Project Location
! 250 words detailing your selected location (if further information than an address would be
helpful to the selection panel)
! Project sketches and mock ups:
You can upload a maximum of 5 images, with a maximum file size of 2mb
! 50-word maximum description for each image
! A proposed budget upload word doc, excel doc or pdf
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HOW THE SELECTION PROCESS WORKS:
! A group of semi-finalists, selected by Kaldor Public Art Projects may be invited to submit
extra information about their idea if deemed necessary.
! From this group, a small number of finalists will be chosen to present their ideas to
members of the selection panel.
! The selection panel will determine the successful idea, with consideration of both the
original application and final presentation.
! The chosen concept will become Kaldor Public Art Projects 45th Anniversary Project and
will be realised in the City of Sydney with the artist working closely with the Kaldor Public Art
Projects exhibition team.
! Kaldor Public Art Projects aims to publish both print and online material, and develop an
education and public program. The successful artist will be required to participate in talks,
interviews and events in the lead up to, during, and after the Project.
! The decision by the selection panel will be final. Unfortunately, Kaldor Public Art Projects is
unable to provide feedback regarding the unsuccessful applicants.











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THE SELECTION PANEL:
YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA will be judged by a panel of highly regarded international curators.

JESSICA MORGAN:
Jessica Morgan is the Daskalopoulos Curator of International
Art, Tate Modern, and Artistic Director of the 10th Gwangju
Biennale.

The internationally renowned curator and writer joined the
Tate Modern in 2002 as Curator, Contemporary Art, and in
2010, was appointed Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art,
where her focus has been on acquisitions of contemporary
and emerging international art, specifically non-western
regions, which are central to Tates commitment to broadening the geographical scope of its
Collection. Exhibitions she has curated include Gabriel Orozco (2011), John Baldessari (2009),
The World as a Stage (2007), Martin Kippenberger (2006), Time Zones (2004), Common
Wealth (2003), and three prestigious Unilever commissions.

Morgan came to the Tate from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston where she was Chief
Curator. She has published and lectured extensively on contemporary art and is a regular
contributor to art journals including Parkett and Artforum. She holds an MA in Art History from
the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and a BA and MA in Art History from Cambridge
University. She was a Mellon Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University and a
Contemporary Art Curatorial Fellow at The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.






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JAMES LINGWOOD:
James Lingwood is Co-Director of Artangel, London.

JAMES LINGWOOD has been Co-Director of Artangel with
Michael Morris since 1991. Amongst some 100 Artangel
projects produced over the past decade and a half are Rachel
Whitereads House (1993-94), Matthew Barneys Cremaster 4
(1994), Gabriel Orozcos Empty Club (1996), Ilya & Emilia
Kabakovs The Palace of Projects (1999), Michael Landys
Break Down (2001) in Oxford Street, Jeremy Dellers The
Battle of Orgreave (2001) in South Yorkshire, Gregor Schneiders Die Familie Schneider (2004),
Francis Alss Seven Walks (2005), Paul Pfeiffers The Saints (2007), Roger Hiornss Seizure
(2008-9), Susan Philipszs Surround Me (2010), Heiner Goebbels Stifters Dinge (2010-12) and
Lindsay Seers Nowhere Less Now (2012) as well as film and video installations with artists
such as Kutlug Ataman, Clio Barnard, Yael Bartana, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen, Tony
Oursler and Sejla Kameric & Anri Sala.

In 2011, The Artangel Collection of Moving Image works was launched with the exhibition
Projections, at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester as part of the Manchester International
Festival in 2011 and involves an ongoing collaboration with Tate. Long-term projects outside
the UK include Roni Horns Vatnasafn/Library of Water in Iceland, Mike Kelleys Mobile
Homestead in Detroit and Cristina Igelsiass Tres Aguas in Toledo, Spain.

Prior to becoming director of Artangel, Lingwood was Curator of Exhibitions at Londons
Institute of Contemporary Art from 1986-1990. He has curated survey exhibitions with Bernd
and Hilla Becher, Vija Celmins, Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Juan Muoz, Juliao Sarmento,
Robert Smithson and Thomas Schtte and most recently Thomas Struth Photographs 1978-
2010 which opened at Kunsthaus Zurich in 2010 and then travelled to Dsseldorf and London
and Juliao Sarmento Works 1972-2012 at the Museu Serralves, Porto in 2012.

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ALEXIE GLASS-KANTOR:
Alexie Glass-Kantor is the Executive Director of Artspace,
Sydney.
Prior to her appointment as Executive Director at Artspace in
November 2013 Alexie Glass-Kantor was DirectorSenior
Curator of Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), where she led
a program that included exhibitions, studios, international
exchange programs, curatorial research and publications. As
curator or co-curator of over fifty exhibitions Alexie has worked
extensively with Australian and international artists across generations and instigated ambitious
international exchanges and collaborative projects in Singapore, Malaysia, China, South Korea,
Indonesia, Italy and USA.

Selected curatorial highlights include: Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian
Art, Art Gallery of South Australia co-curated with Natasha Bullock (2012); City Within the City,
Art Sonje Centre, Seoul (2011/12); Dying In Spite of the Miraculous, Melbourne Festival (2010);
No Name Station, Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Warmun Art Centre, WA and
Gertrude Contemporary (2010/12); Still Vast Reserves, Magazzino DArte Moderna, Rome
(2010/12); 21:100:100 - one hundred sound works by one hundred artists from the twenty-first
century, Melbourne Festival and MONA MOFO (2008/09); and Australian curator for Lucky
Number Seven: SITE Santa Fe Seventh International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe New Mexico
(2008).

Alumnus of the University of NSW, College of Fine Arts, where she graduated with a Bachelor
Art History & Theory (Hons), she has worked as a curator at the Australian Centre for the
Moving Image and held programming positions in state art institutions, museums, independent
spaces and festivals. Alexie has authored artist monographs and regularly contributes to
catalogues, symposiums and journals throughout the Asia-Pacific, including the presentation of
a Curators Perspective for Independent Curators International in New York.

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NICHOLAS BAUME:
Nicholas Baume has been Director and Chief Curator of
Public Art Fund since September 2009.

Recent Public Art Fund exhibitions include solo projects by
Ryan Gander, Paola Pivi, Rob Pruitt, Eva Rothschild, Thomas
Schtte, Monika Sosnowska, and Oscar Tuazon; the group
exhibitions Statuesque and Common Ground; a major career
survey, Sol LeWitt: Structures 1965 2006; Ugo Rondinone's
colossal Human Nature exhibition at Rockefeller Center; and
the blockbuster project Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus.

Prior to joining Public Art Fund, Baume served as Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary
Art in Boston. He was responsible for shaping the artistic program from 2003-2009, including
shows with Kai Althoff, Kader Attia, Carol Bove, Tara Donovan, Thomas Hirschhorn, Anish
Kapoor, Lucy McKenzie, and Rodney McMillian; and the establishment of a permanent
collection for the 2006 opening of the museums award-winning new building by Diller Scofidio +
Renfro.

A native of Australia, Baume was a Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney
before moving to the United States in 1998 to become Contemporary Curator at the Wadsworth
Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Among his exhibitions there were About Face: Andy Warhol
Portraits; Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes; and Noncomposition: Fifteen Case Studies. He
also organized the first American solo museum projects by Francis Als, Sam Durant, Christian
Jankowski, Catherine Sullivan, and Fiona Tan as part of the Matrix series.






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NICK MITZEVICH:
Nick Mitzevich has been Director of the Art Gallery of South
Australia since 2010.

Prior to his position at the Art Gallery of South Australia,
Mitzevich was the Director of The University of Queensland Art
Museum, Brisbane, a position he held from 2007 to 2010. His
strategic direction resulted in major innovative change for the
art museum enhancing the museums national profile,
providing significant increases in visitor numbers, growth of the
art collection particularly in the area of Aboriginal art and the development of philanthropic
support.

Nick Mitzevich was recognised for his outstanding achievements by receiving the Museum and
Gallery Services Queensland 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award.

Mitzevich was also Director of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, a position he held for six
years. In this role his initiatives included a transformation of the gallery in the areas of
community engagement, support groups, programming, sponsorship and collection
development, particularly in the area of contemporary Australian art. Other achievements
included a broad refurbishment of the gallery and master planning for a major redevelopment
plan for the Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

He has curated notable international and national exhibitions, including the Adelaide Biennial of
Australian Art: Dark Heart (2014), AES+F The Revolution starts now! (2010), Margaret Olley:
Life's journey (2009), Strange Cargo: contemporary art as a state of encounter (2006) and Auto
Fetish: the mechanics of desire (2004).

Nick Mitzevich has previously worked as a university lecturer in art history and museum studies,
a commercial art dealer, a school art teacher and a multicultural arts officer.

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JOHN KALDOR:
John Kaldor is Director, Kaldor Public Art Projects

John Kaldor AM is a dedicated collector, patron and
supporter of contemporary art. He has been collecting and
commissioning art since the late 1950s, and since 1969 has
shared his love of art with the Australian public through his
series of Art Projects. Kaldor has brought the most innovative
and groundbreaking art to Australia for 45 years through the
not-for-profit organisation Kaldor Public Art Projects, listed
since 2004 on the national Register of Cultural Organisations.

Kaldor has participated on the boards and international councils of many art organisations over
the years, including P.S.1 in New York, the Tate Modern, London, the Biennale of Sydney, and
as chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. He was selected as Commissioner for
the Australian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and again for the 52nd Venice
Biennale in 2007. Kaldor was a founding member of the Board of the Power Institute of
Contemporary Art, a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and is currently on
the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

In 2011, Kaldor gifted his private collection to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, bringing
these works into public view. He continues to extend his contribution to public art and education
as Director of Kaldor Public Art Projects.




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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Concepts for a project must be original and must be conceived solely by the entrant/s. There is
no entry fee. No payment will be made to unsuccessful entrants. Applications will not be
returned.


Selection and Presentation
The decision made by the selection panel will be final and Kaldor Public Art Projects is unable
to provide feedback regarding unsuccessful applications, nor provide reasons for its decision.

Kaldor Public Art Projects reserve the right not to select any work or not to complete an
agreement on its sole discresion.

Kaldor Public Art Projects may suggest alternative project sites if the artists selected site is
deemed inappropriate by the organisation.

Subject to entry into the mutually acceptable agreement, the chosen concept for a project will
become Kaldor Public Art Projects 45th Anniversary Project and will be realised in the City of
Sydney by the Kaldor Public Art Projects exhibition team working closely with the artist/s. The
Deed will include terms not inconsistent with these terms and conditions.

All budget management, production decisions and costs for the successful concept will be the
responsibility of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

All design, marketing and promotion of the successful concept will be chosen and delivered by
Kaldor Public Art Projects and key visuals and material will be circulated to the artist/s as a
courtesy.



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Fees and Charges
The successful artist or group will receive a single fee of $5,000 for the winning entry, along with
the reasonable cost of production, marketing and presentation of the selected project concept.
Reasonable travel and accommodation costs will be included for interstate artists. The
successful applicant will retain ownership of the finished artwork bound by the sales terms
outlined below.

Confidentiality and Exclusivity
Applicants understand that their concepts must be confidential and that public knowledge of the
project concept may invalidate their submission. The winning applicants agree to keep their
concept confidential and to work with Kaldor Public Art Projects on the timing and roll-out of the
launch, communications and publicity regarding the project.

Promotion and Image Copyright
The winning applicant agrees to disclose all other exhibitions and events they are involved with
before and during the agreed project dates, to ensure that Kaldor Public Art Projects can
optimise promotional opportunities

The applicant agrees to participate in media interviews and publicity surrounding the project,
and to supporting the use of images and footage by the media. All footage and documentation
captured by Kaldor Public Art Projects will be retained as joint copyright with the artist/s and will
be used in connection with Kaldor Public Art Projects future education and marketing materials
both in print and digital media.

Sales and Commission
YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA is not an acquisitive prize and the resulting work remains the
property of the artist. Kaldor Public Art Projects reserves the option to purchase the work, or to
negotiate a possible purchase by one of our stakeholders, prior to the artist making the work
available for sale to third parties.


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Transport and Insurance
At the conclusion of the exhibition period, Kaldor Public Art Projects will take responsibility for
the deinstallation and removal of the finished artwork, transporting it to an agreed destination
within Australia, but will not be responsible for further transportation or storage of the work.

Kaldor Public Art Projects will take out appropriate insurance for the finished artwork from the
date of exhibition opening until the date of the project completion but will not be responsible for
insurance after final de-installation and return of the work to the address provided by the
artist/s.