Open Call- New England

The Travellers Box – Boston is currently seeking proposals for collaborative projects that use The Travellers Box or its contents to explore and engage relations between artists, their practice and process.  Artists are encouraged to interpret broadly ideas of public and private, identity construction and various forms of social interactions.  The only stipulation is that The Travellers Box (the object) or its contents must appear in the overall work or the documentation of your project.

Please submit a proposal of 500 words or less that addresses the following by Feb. 15th:

  • How you intend to use the travellers box or its contents and how you will document the project
  • Artist(s) can work with the box from 1 week to 3 months. Please state how long you would like to request the box.
  • The collaborative process is seen as a form of work in itself.  Please speak about the role of collaboration in your intended project.

Additional information required:

  • CV and brief bio
  • 10-20 images of past work (jpgs no larger than 1024×768)

Please send your proposals no later than Feb. 15th and all supplementary material to: tofu@projectsoya.net, include The Travellers Box Proposal in the subject line.

Documentation of the selected projects will be posted on this blog, as well as http://www.thetravellersbox.org/international.html and http://www.thetravellersbox.org/local.html

  • History of the project

    Box project started back in 2004 and has undergone various changes under way from The Travellers Secret Box to The Sandwich Box for new inscription in form of The Travellers Box which includes The International Box and The Local Box. Behind the box project is a working group, several co-curators and a lot of artists who have contributed and continue to contribute to the project with art works. The box project was founded by Danish Artist and curator Lars Vilhelmsen.