Para-Sites is an alternative exhibition project where given modes of production, circulation, and consumption of art are “hijacked” or re-appropriated.

We are interested in using public spaces, systems, or mass-produced commodities for unexpected purposes, which may denaturalize routinized patterns of everyday life. By twisting common assumptions or repeated habits of the everyday, we attempt to disturb how things are supposed to be and how we are expected to live.

Media/Genre:
Any modes of conduct that reappopriate conventional ways of using or occupying public spaces are welcome. In doing so, we would like to bring attention to imaginative and contingent qualities of everyday life. We are also open to media or genres, including (but not limited to) performance acts, demonstrations, lectures, apparatuses, site-specific installations, wheat-pastes, stickers, instructions, websites, automatons, and software programs.

Space:
Any public spaces in the United States can be our exhibition sites. This show does not involve a single, fixed space in a gallery or a museum. There will be no designated white rooms unless you “borrow” them from another, more conventional exhibition. Instead, people who don’t expect to encounter works of art in their everyday life will run into your work in a public space, wherever it might be.

Time:
The exhibition duration will be April 30 to May 20, 2014.

Proposal guideline:
Send a 200-word proposal of your proposed work and three images of your previous work with brief captions to wooyunjin@gmail.com by March 1 2014. Links to online portfolios are also welcome and will substitute submissions of previous work.

More information can be found at:
http://parasites-art.tumblr.com