【Application Overview】
Launched in 2000, Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF) is an open-call art festival that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. Organized by Spiral, an arts complex in Tokyo’s Aoyama, SICF brings together creative talents across different fields and disciplines to present their work. The festival attracts a wide variety of visitors from the creative industries, including gallery owners, curators, collectors, buyers, and media professionals. Over the years, SICF has continued to expand as a platform for artistic activities, through encounters between new talents and visitors. At the end of the festival, a series of prizes is announced, including the Judges’ Awards, Semi-Grand Prize, and Grand Prize as well as the Audience Award, which is selected by visitors and the Best Seller Award given to the creator who sold the most items. The winners receive the opportunity to exhibit their work again at Spiral.
Applications are open for ambitious independent creators whose work endeavors to transcend existing values.
【category】
EXHIBITION
Rather painting, sculpture, installation, illustration, graphic design, photography, video, media art, engineering, performance or mixed-media, works challenging existing values of the genre will be exhibited for 3 days in booths, each measuring W1,650 x D1,650 x H2,400mm, where creators will be able to express themselves freely.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
・All nationality, age and type of work will be accepted.
・The applicant must be present at the venue during the event.
・The applicants may be an individual or a group.
MARKET
Design and crafts pieces as well as edible items and more, products designed to grant a more artistic way of living, eating, and dressing, will be displayed for three days and put on sale in an individual area composed of a counter and the wall behind, measuring W1,500 x H2,400 mm.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
・All nationality, age and type of work will be accepted.
・The applicant must be present at the venue, at all time during the event.
・The applicants may also apply as a brand or a shop.
・The items exhibited must be available for sale.
【deadline】9（Thu）February 2023 ※ The call will close at 8PM (JST)