Call for Submissions:
A Tribute to Aimé Césaire
The City of Fort-de-France calls for international projects or expressions of interest to design, to implement and monitor the installation of a monumental statue in tribute to Aimé Césaire. Born in Martinique, writer, humanitarian and politician Aimé Césaire (June 26, 1913 – April 17, 2008) was the mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years. This call is open to all professional artists and artist collectives. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, July 20, 2011.
A monumental statue will be created and located on “La Savane” in Fort-de-France, Martinique, to preserve the memory and work of Césaire and his anti-colonialist struggle. La Savane, a former space for military ceremonies and displays, is now a walking park. Since the nineteenth century, it is a place of remembrance for the people of Martinique.
For submission information (in French), go to http://fortdefrance.forsup.net/XMain/ and click on the icon to the right of Conception, réalisation et suivi de l’installation d’une statue figurative en hommage à Aimé CESAIRE.
For more information, you may contact Suzy at suzy.landau@fortdefrance.fr or Myriam Etile by phone at (596) 596 72 84 27, by Fax at (596) 596 72 84 28 or via email at myriam.etile@fortdefrance.fr
[Many thanks to ARC’s Holly Bynoe for bringing this item to our attention.]
For original post, see http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/07/fort-de-france-call-for-projects-tribute-to-aime-cesaire/
For New York Times tribute/article (and photo), see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/18cesaire.html