Inventing a way to pray

Performance project in Exit Art’s 10th Avenue window: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: For consideration in the prayingproject stop by Exit Art Thursday, Friday, Saturday October 28, 29, 30, 2-4pm to discuss your proposal with the curators.

prayingproject gives a stage and voice to spirituality as a form of cultural expression. Exit Art is an experimental cultural center that is exploring spiritual necessity with this project. Prayer is how you express yourself to reach a spiritual state, a personal initiative with reason and purpose, a way to have a private experience that is collective. The act of creativity is an act of contemplation and auto-analysis which has parallels in the act of praying. Praying is a way to reach our own divinity, a performance in our lives that we are translating into a performance of art.

Exit Art invites you to submit a performance project to come and pray as you wish, in any form, any faith, with gestures that are natural to your personality and belief. prayingproject will be presented on a 10 ft long by 5 ft wide stage in the Exit Art 10th Avenue window, visible from the street and accessible in the gallery over a weekend in November.

Prayer is an action with purpose, an intimate expression that is beneficial and constructive. Praying is maybe the most intimate and profound freedom of expression. Discover your own way of praying - private, public, intense, sublime, vulnerable and powerful.

For consideration in the prayingproject stop by Exit Art October 28, 29, 30, between 2-4pm to discuss your possible participation. Please bring a drawing and one page description of your proposed project, and up to 10 slides, one video or one cd of your current work and sase.

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue (corner of 36th Street), New York, NY 10018

Exit Art is a nonprofit art space with a mission to create and present exhibitions and programs that explore the diversity of cultures and voices in contemporary art. It is committed to bringing to public attention the work of under-recognized and emerging artists who experiment with the convergence of visual art, video, music, film, design, and performance.