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Unsolicited Exhibition Program 2017-18 Ranking

Thank you for participating in the 2017-18 Unsolicited Exhibition Program. We received 515 eligible proposals from 66 countries, which were voted on by an international panel of over 200 jurors. Jurors were asked to read at least 50 anonymous proposals. Nearly 9,000 votes were cast to determine the winning proposals. Below is a ranking of all submitted proposals in order of highest total score. Proposals with the same total score share place positions and are ranked with the same number.

The three higest ranking proposals were submitted by: Katherine Rochester (Fellow Travelers), ANGL Collective (Rendered Cities), and Rola Khayyat (Light in Wartime). The Unsolicited Exhibition Program accepts ideas for group exhibitions to be presented at the apexart space in NYC. The organizers of the three highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming.


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RANK
TITLE
ID #
1 Fellow Travelers 663
2 Rendered Cities 486
3 Light in Wartime 429
4 Tell Me How You Lived Your Dream in a Certain Place 591
4 Inherited Trauma 593
4 My name is Peaches! 204
7 When the universe froze into ghostly skein 613
8 The Measure of Breath 647
8 STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL (I’M OK) 365
8 The Purchased Veil 650
11 What do you think that a mountain can mean in this deserted region? 252
12 Zero-day 391
12 Survival Kit: Subtlety As Methodology 154
14 Hey Good Lookin' 614
14 Delirium Tremens (Working Title): Karaoke as dramatis personae of dissonant representation 638
14 A Thirteenth Month 674
17 An All American Icon. On Guns in American culture 673
18 ON THE OUTS - Geography of Fear and Repression 534
18 (Im)material Labor: Human Effort in the Digital Age 621
20 Relative Distance: Family Memoir of the Black Atlantic 580
20 Post-political Dreaming 646
20 Conflicting Narratives 478
20 NEWS FROM A BANANA REPUBLIC 242
24 The Helping Hand 602
24 M/othering 412
26 Making a Difference: Craft and Design from an Asylum Nation 326
26 Ain't I a Woman? 177
26 Art Education in the Age of Metrics 211
29 The Colossus 515
30 Crude: Oil as Archive and Infrastructure 528
31 Soundborderscape. Listening to the border critically 394
32 Hybridly Human 577
33 The Art of Knowledge: Information/Translation/Dissemination 401
34 Re:Combinant 181
35 #BlackGirlLit: Between Art, Literature & Memory 606
36 Made For Debate 672
37 We Built this City 288
37 The Crowd 611
39 AIBOHPHOBIA 604
39 Historical Amnesia 257
39 As If by Scent 543
39 HOLD ON TO THIS WHILE IT’S SLIPPING AWAY 445
43 Chronicle of clocks and heartbeats 317
43 Bodies of Evidence 668
45 Un/In/Re: HOME 567
45 Ritual Intention 251
47 A UNIVERSE FROM QUEER 576
48 Shooting the Stars out of the Sky 321
48 Seen from the Anthropocene 516
48 More Fun Than Fun 276
48 Laying the Foundations: Where Do Bots Live 571
48 Oh, inverted world! (Adventures in Architecture and Information) 405
48 TRACE: Wayfinding in Contemporary New Media Art 151
54 Tonay�n: a cure to go blind to 338
54 On Affordable Positivity 615
54 S.P.O.O.L Super Powers Of Ordinary Life 381
54 Destroy The Village In Order to Save It 397
54 Who Shall Survive 654
54 Post Military Beaches 670
54 Doubt is not a Pleasant Condition, but Certainty is Absurd. 444
54 Surrender 202
54 LIBERLAND: year  209
54 Material Auralities 335
54 A country not a war: the role of women in Vietnam’s independence struggles, through the eyes of its war artists. 370
54 No-Nonsense 274
54 Unfamiliarity 612
54 In Hell Diving for Pearls 357
54 Resystematized 620
54 Behind the Smart World 116
54 We will not be suicided 656
54 Facing An Epidemic 424
54 Re-Locus 474
54 Take Your Time 479
54 Age of Anxiety; A thousand voices about mining 287
54 Age Appropriate 115
54 This Is Not a Joke, but We Can Laugh About It 406
54 I Was Born The Day The Planet Died 264
54 The Observer Effect 525
54 Pigeonhole 547
54 Arts & labor 303
54 SYNTHETIC ARCHEOLOGISTS 304
54 When the fall of the dictionary left all of the words lying in the streets 566
54 Potted Plants 312
54 Failed treasure hunt 572
54 On Vocation 587
54 Asian-American Art as a Cultural Measure 360
54 The Non-Scream and its Mechanical Audito 632
54 All our files 636
54 Expanding the Sensual Experience of Visual Art 648
54 Feeding the Revolution 659
54 (un)mournable bodies 661
54 Schrodinger's Urbanism - Is the city dead or alive? 415
54 Not if I See You First 421
54 The air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken 180
54 Failure as a Paradox 193
54 Smile! : ) 224
54 Shrouded Facts & Shredded Truths 248
98 Earth Bodies: A Secret Visibility 563
98 Approaches to Violence 396
98 Permeable Vessels: Non-aligned memories of the Cold-War in Southeast Asia 677
98 Old Spirits Spooking New Houses: Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Angola 507
98 The Mulberry Trees 237
98 A concise review of architecture & the museum 263
98 The industry of a doubt 548
98 Objectified Identity 380
98 Cartographic Anxiety 302
98 Toccare la Morte (To Touch Death) 574
98 Prodigal sons: Recreation of attached place. 359
98 The Garden is Off Limits 449
98 Residence & Occupation: Surviving the NeoLiberal City 504
98 Analogue Climbing Party 506
98 Women and Animals 299
113 I, Alone 552
113 Margins and Perimeters 657
113 Authentically Unreal 385
113 The last day to love you 520
113 Time Out of Joint 533
113 Trouble in Painting #2 568
113 The Body is a Machine for Living 438
113 Electropolitics 549
113 Dwelling in a Time and Space of Flux 555
113 Pushing the Envelope 325
113 Ocular Migraines in the Wild: Acuity and Blindness in the Anthropocene 607
113 Oyate 353
113 Women Of A Certain Age 105
113 Vertical 622
113 Surveillance and Selfhood 642
113 Sleeping Freedom 441
113 Shower Before Entering 458
113 Shori 210
113 What surrounds us. 230
113 Perceptions of Site: Merged Realities 489
113 Nomas: in the gap there is some hope 498
134 The rem(a)inder: a certain kind of science fiction 280
134 Venice is at War 296
134 OKRs 573
134 On the tip of the tongue 641
134 Prosthetic Aesthetic 484
134 Deceive and Enchant 487
134 Long Live The Public: Hidden Archives of the Middle East 292
134 Intimate Race: RACEE 420
134 Scanning for Conflict 584
134 Malays (Malaise) 121
134 Tropical Darkness 402
134 Encore Une Fois 461
134 GIRL TALK 505
147 High Hopes (Transition) 537
147 Emergent Futures 556
147 Mothernity 626
147 Playing with the apparatus: contemporary experimental photography 144
147 IN-DEPENDENCE 404
147 Takirua 451
147 Chimeric-Bodies, Transparency and Nuanima 500
154 Grand Delusions [1914 -- ] 352
154 Search for… Serendipity. The more you search, the less you find. 324
154 Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project 118
157 I tell a story because I found a rock / I bury a rock to tell a story 545
157 A sentence a picture 599
157 CELL 623
157 The Ideality of TIme 630
157 Threshold 143
157 The Forms of Exile 664
157 Longing, brutality, madness, indifference 416
157 Customized Risk 418
157 Into the World Beyond Desire 225
157 Emphasis and Omission: Accounts of a Hospital Airstrike 488
157 Things 503
157 Art Selectronic 509
157 Not To Be Seen – The Aesthetics of Secrecy 199
157 The End of the World As We Know It: Denial 495
157 Rethinking Kakotopia 290
172 The Left Hand of Darkness 532
172 The Air is Light 300
172 All mimsy were the borogoves 558
172 Human After All 307
172 Acts of Support 319
172 this was here now 590
172 Three Headed Monster 336
172 The Left-Handed Path: Mysticism in Contemporary Queer Art 106
172 Artist as Editor: Archival Montage and Rhizomatic Reframing 653
172 Blood in your veins 675
172 Evidence: Visualizing Urban Divides 203
172 With Tongues 473
172 Mnemosyne 483
172 Outside / In : Outsider Art and the Neo-expressionists 240
172 Of the Rags 501
172 Dreamspace 468
188 The Third Table 355
189 big inheritance 671
190 Sabi, Wabi 314
190 LIVING PICTURES 320
190 Shrieking Violets 582
190 Landscape Gaze, Culture and Touristic Views of Other Lands 356
190 originalcopy 110
190 The Waiting Imagination of the Dead 377
190 The Shrinkage of the World : Six Degrees of Separation 126
190 From Here Onwards 645
190 The Currency of Diaspora : Contemporary Art for Southeast Asia 137
190 Midst of the Midpoint 192
200 ‘The darkness that we see in the sky’: Duration and Measure 258
200 The Outdatedness of Human Beings 261
200 Grandmothers’ songlines 282
200 Pavilion Paradise 289
200 SKŪMAZ (a metastable state) 295
200 Dreamship Harborless 551
200 NO POOR'S LAND 553
200 How to make him your servant 561
200 Hothouse 596
200 An Appropriation Assize 634
200 Under the Skin: Challenging Race From the Body Itself 655
200 Re-Imagining A City 166
200 The Vanishing Cabinet 174
200 Inside the Four Lines 182
200 Afrocentric As European 485
215 Interventions in Daily Life: Projects in China 273
215 From Dystopian Reality To Utopian Imaginary 297
215 VANITAS, MEMENTO MORI AND IMPERMANENCE OF LIFE (IN CONTEMPORARY TIME) 298
215 Moments: An Unnamed Collective Presentation 559
215 Post Utopia 316
215 Various Forms of Escapism 347
215 The Principles of Migration 132
215 Another Country 651
215 CUTTING EDGES 175
215 Is That A Gun In Your Pocket 190
215 performing schulpture 450
215 Liminal Landscapes 459
215 Decay 3.0: digital ecology in the Anthropocene 217
215 A Futile Endeavour 476
215 A fevered state 229
215 There is no feminism in France (or any other community incidentally) 499
215 Slave 2 Ctrl-Alt-Del/Love 508
232 And This Too 260
232 Remote Control 554
232 Home Sweet Home 585
232 Temporary solutions that stay forever 354
232 Women of Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light 113
232 TEXTURE MAPS 408
232 Trinity 460
232 When the Power is Gone 214
232 Diabetes 481
232 Beyond the celebration 494
232 Ecologies of intimacy: remote publics 239
232 NEWS | Visibility Strategies 496
244 Mutant Space 513
244 The truth about lineage 517
244 Assuming These Are Battlegrounds 529
244 Welcome to the Floraissance! 540
244 Honor Thy Error 343
244 In The Ends 345
244 Skip, Jump, Make some Noise. The Street is your Playground. (LoneLady) 618
244 Unsolicited Archive 119
244 The Exile 130
244 How does it look to feel this way? 643
244 How the Body Makes Marks 138
244 Conversational Spaces 398
244 Trans-formations in polluted environments 147
244 LAYERS OF TIME 158
244 Lines of Refuge 676
244 Cohabiting: Against All Advice 178
244 Exposing the Suture 212
244 Stuck in the Mud 228
244 Common Borders 497
263 How to Nationalism... 575
263 Hue Movements 589
263 Preparatory Gesture of Speaking 350
263 A thousand cracks 631
263 Focus Group 633
263 dccon2: birds 128
263 Connectivity: Creating a Global City 165
263 A Room of One’s Own 442
263 Barely Imagined, Scarcely Given 446
263 We know absolutely nothing, but of this nothing at least we can speak 454
263 Unearth: A Conversation Between Natural and Cultural Landscape 471
263 Nasty Women: Reconsidering “Female Crafts” 482
263 Show 247
276 How Will They Know Our Works 514
276 STRUCTURAL SYNERGIES: TIME, SPACE, EXISTANCE 595
276 Octopus Intelligence 363
276 Follies to the max 378
276 The Museum of Trainwrecks 388
276 Goodbye to Clocks Ticking 172
276 Very Steep and Erratic Edge 194
276 Bombs ticking 455
276 Antique MMM9 466
276 New Passage 213
276 A Wall as Geometry, a Line, an Idea of Boundary 477
287 Golden Section: Reinterpretations of Matila Ghyka 256
287 The horror of the Un-heard Corporeal and incorporeal resonance 262
287 Milk and Honey: Mothers On Sex,Love and Motherhood 518
287 I Sense Something 311
287 Breaking Illusions: Artists as Scientists 315
287 Geometric experience around an ancestral call 600
287 Typically Tropical 351
287 OVA 107
287 Welcome to the Neighborhood: A Community Action 619
287 Square 383
287 Aesthetic Onanism & Selfilmmaking 133
287 Dynamics of traces 400
287 Inner is Outer: Patterns of Change with the I Ching as the Earth is dying 667
287 Tropical Peripheries 430
287 It wouldn't be the end of the world? 197
287 Unanimous Dissent: Illusions and Delusions of Security 480
303 GRIDS, MIRRORS AND GALLEONS: TOOLS FOR THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION 530
303 Everything ephemeral is dead 605
303 The Space Between 610
303 The mind as ritual 627
303 THE CONTEMPORARY IS THE ONE WHOSE EYES ARE STRUCK BY THE BEAM OF DARKNESS THAT COMES FROM HIS OWN TIME 374
303 Art@Fab Labs 376
303 Minor Matter 134
303 Migration: Inside/Out 410
303 BYPRODUCT / BUYPRODUCT / BYEPRODUCT / 169
303 The other life of works 425
303 Anonymous Stranger 681
303 Penelope’s Web – The Rendezvous Between Craft and Art 452
315 Scenes from Distance 522
315 that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice 310
315 Second hand belonging 368
315 The Anonymous Show 375
315 Indoor Picnic 639
315 ENEMY OF FREEDOM 644
315 Soft Chaos 660
315 6 Is The Loneliest Numbe 427
315 There Will Come Soft Rains 200
315 Going to dust - care, dialysis, the black plague and ICU. 456
325 Herland 521
325 The shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line 278
325 👍me 281
325 The Unknown Variable 339
325 Our Margin Bodies: Subverting Impossible Spaces 609
325 Crates & Barrels 637
325 MEADOWLAND: A group exhibition 395
325 Vital decoys 413
325 We Have Always Been Artists 426
325 SPIRIT OF THE MASQUERADE 432
335 Big Dreams, Small Spaces 538
335 Re/De-flects 155
335 The memory of the forgotten 161
335 On Floating Bodies 234
335 All we know is fake fodder and buying shit 241
335 The Eye in Team 244
341 We play, therefore we are (Ludo ergo sum) 266
341 INTO EXTIMACY 269
341 Fifteen Minutes of Shame 527
341 Shadows of the Objects; Relations 542
341 HARD 579
341 seven octillion electrons 581
341 Mother Nature – Witch Congress Part. 1 – From nano to global perspectives and speculations on the post-nature age 328
341 Carrying somewhere else (Cairo) 367
341 The Economy of the Object 207
341 INFINITE EXTRAPOLATION 464
341 The others 472
341 Numerology Number 8 490
341 The Object Liberation Front presents: Non-Humans, So Hot Right Now 236
341 Cloisters 253
355 THE PLEASURE of TRANSGRESSION 524
355 Moments of Synchronicity 364
355 « Trompe l’œil » in hospitals 109
355 6,000 feet beyond man and time 366
355 THE GIFT STRATEGY 136
355 In-sight 652
355 Not Knowing 407
355 Force of Habit(er) 669
363 WHAT IS QUEER? 333
363 Patterns in Complexity 608
363 Cereus Relationships: An inquiry into rare night blooming 665
363 Dis Appearance 156
367 Bodies of Context 586
367 Disbelief 437
367 VISUAL ACTIVISM 519
367 Liberate Me 523
367 Notions of the afterlife II 334
367 Feeling brown feeling down 399
367 Burned 148
367 Practicing love 159
367 FRAGMENTS 170
367 Undercurrent / The Passion Economy 448
377 New Subjectivities 564
377 Remarking the Space 346
377 Padre Nuestro 640
377 The Artwork as a Hacking Space 414
377 The Open Library 162
377 Hyperbole or stories of love and war 447
383 Untitled 598
383 Labor Is A Portrait Of Love 393
383 Troublemakers 231
386 iCUnoclasts and eCUlogists 349
386 PLOT 678
386 The Overseen: second things first 435
386 We Are The Perturbation 186
386 WONDERAMA 216
391 On Impermanence / The Solidity of the Ephemeral 526
391 The collective of urban consciousness 536
391 I KNOW WHY THE DONKEY BRAYS Looking for Italian-ness in contemporary art 541
391 Innocence Revised 546
391 Once We Were Here and Now We Are Not 550
391 Psychic Models 560
391 Going where the weather suits my clothes 313
391 NAKED PALACE_New system of fruition for works of art. 358
391 #Un/Political Internetion 649
391 Chain Reaction 666
391 Negotiations 428
391 ♡♡Screw around the BJ City♡♡ 431
391 Bath-Vessel-Town 453
391 Abstracting Wölfflin 201
391 SHIFTING BOUNDARIES 457
391 The Intangibilities of Experience 463
391 TRES TRISTES TIGRES / THREE SAD TIGERS 475
391 Your Words Surround Me 220
391 EMBODIMENTS OF THE WORLD 254
410 Under Deconstruction 436
410 MOMENTS OF PLEASURE 502
410 From the white cotton flowers to the poetics of interior 569
410 ... It haunts us 329
410 Figurative Abstraction and The Bridge Into Non-Representation 125
410 "No to Spectacle" An Yvonne Rainer inspired show 417
410 Home work(out)s 164
410 Broken Mirror: Data Visualization of Autistic Collective Empathy 679
410 Museo de la Soledad presents: DOGGY 249
419 Printmaking today? 268
419 Tracking Traces – a collaborative printing conversation 578
419 Through Vegetal Being: Letter between artworks 603
419 When I hear the word culture … I release the safety on my Browning! 348
419 The New Times Project 104
419 About dimensional images and pictographical objects. 122
419 Inside/Outside 384
419 Sympathetic Magic. 140
419 What place is this? 658
419 Art for Art's Sake 2017 149
419 Apparat - Retrogression trough technological progress 419
419 Trouble diaries: Failure is a good thing 167
419 Refracting 680
419 Sidewalk no. 5 208
419 POPolis 465
434 Internal Workings 283
435 THINK ON THESE THINGS 512
435 HOLY WOOD 259
435 Abstract Expressionistas 616
435 human-non-human 629
435 Resurfacing: Meditations on the Mutability of the Physical World 215
440 Fence 443
441 Shared Value (An Open Letter to NYC) 544
441 CLASSICISM IN A NEW ERA 294
441 Slapstick as Subjectivity 327
441 Satyagraha 337
441 Material Girls 594
441 Political Geometric Statment 601
441 SNATCH BACK: End Assault 389
441 Love is an Untitled Book yet to be written 392
441 Avalanche 152
441 Territories 157
441 From Outrage to Resistance 195
441 Real Realism: An Art Exhbition for the Disenchanted 196
441 See the Beauty End the Violence 205
441 ON THE MOVE 218
441 think it/ feel it/ climb it 243
441 LITANY FOR THE LOST - Artists Envision the Sixth Extinction 250
457 Lu-creativity 588
458 Terroris, Patriotism and holyTerroris, Patriotism and holy 539
458 Ripple Affection 285
458 When Good is Not Enough: Calling for the Witch 332
458 Lumen: Symbolism 341
458 Communitas: How to Create Egalitarian Transhumanism 597
458 BEAT AND UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE 342
458 TEMPORARY INSTANT COMMUNICATION 624
458 Urban Details 382
458 Introspective Collective: A Joseph Cornell Co-Op 409
458 Sick Sad World 423
458 ...these fragments we have shored against our ruins… 433
458 Humanity: Spirit and substance/ awakening or illusion 434
458 Without (a) Guess 439
458 PAINTING AFTER PAINTING 189
458 We Will Put It All Back Together 222
458 Heritage on Sale ...in bits and peices. 510
474 Dollar-Shaped Eyeglasses 131
474 Surfaces of Mirrors - or New York Through the Eyes of Hungarian Artists 492
476 Heartbreak 557
476 We become one 331
476 The moment of miracle 362
476 Structural fictions 628
476 Love Is… 145
476 Free as an oyster! 221
476 Ego Trash 227
476 riygygi BGUORIHGRWPGOIH gohwrpighoeurgh EgrvkUJrweekqh vk 255
476 4 x 1/4 that visitors never see 511
485 Materfamilias: The portrait of "family." 114
486 Regular Beauty 267
486 The Limit of the World 535
486 How do city fathers use craftsmen to tell their story? 309
486 Reggaed 583
486 Location-Relocation 373
486 ROYAL PERSIAN AND KASHMIR BROCADES 124
486 We want the United States of the World 139
486 „this land once was a mirror silvered by the sea“ - Mapping West African places and memories on the slavery route 235
486 FreeDom 491
486 THE REMAINS OF SEX 493
496 MY BODY, MY RULES 565
496 The Remains of the Day 617
496 Machine for meaningless sounds 386
496 Parallel Universes 422
496 Forged 187
496 Fractured Bones Do Heal 233
502 The Irony of Intuition (An Act of Painting group show, curated by Raymond Cuijpers) 286
502 Materiality: Subject and Object 570
502 Thoughts become Things 625
502 "Sea port city" CHILE 117
502 LIGHT MATTER 662
502 Third Generation Abstract Expressionist Painters 153
502 Why painting? 469
509 Eat the 1% for dinner! 592
510 turning sounds into visuals 184
511 PUSSY GALORE 265
512 Stillness-black fetus 387
512 All Over You 135
512 CONNECTING THROUGH ART 232
515 TRANSFORMATION 284
 
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