REFUGEES: choosing between a coffin and a suitcase.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES APIV 2016
REFUGEES: choosing between
a coffin and a suitcase.
“A refugee is a person who is outside their country of citizenship because
they have well-founded grounds for fear of persecution because of their race,
religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group (including
gender- related persecution) or political opinion.”
Geneva Convention (1951)
“A refugee is not by choice. Most of the times they are people
like you and me, but they have had to choose between a coffin
and a suitcase, they have been forced to flee their countries
persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, political
opinion, gender or sexual orientation. Many are victims of
human trafficking or armed conflicts. They have lost everything
except for their dignity.”
The Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR)
The illustrations by APIV members, along with the selection of
the works received will be part of the exhibition that will take
place at the Fira del Llibre de València 2016. If it’s possible,
there will be a catalogue about the mentioned show.
According to The UN Refugee Agency- UNHCR information,
the global figure of refugees for the first semester of 2015 rose
to 20,2 million people, 700.000 more than the previous year,
and the asylum applications increased 78%, until 993.600. In
light of the data corresponding to months from January to
June, 2015 is on its way to see how the global forced
displacements exceed the amount of 60 million people. 60
million people!
4. Any techniques can be used and the illustrations must be
created in CMYK color model.
For decades, millions of people flee countries such as
Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan,
Gambia or Mali, a situation that has been worsened by the
Syrian war that, for the last four years, has expelled from their
country more than 4.180.000 people, in addition to more than
7, 2 million of internally displaced people (according to UNCHR
data from October 2015).
Facing this terrible situation, Spain, incomprehensibly, from the
assigned amount of approximately 17.000 people, has only
accepted 12 Syrian refugees until now. For the rest of the EU
countries, only 160 refugees have been accepted out of
160.000 that were part of its commitment.
In support of migrant people, victims of this so called “Refugee
Crisis” and of the ineffectiveness of the European countries,
the Associació Valenciana d’Il·lustradors de València
(illustrators professional association) has decided to dedicate
its annual exhibition at Fira del Llibre de València 2016 (the city
book fair), to the reflection, the visualization and the solidarity
with the refugee people.
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
1. The goal consists in offering, with our habitual means of
work, an illustration that reflects on the refugees or
asylum-seekers’ situation, having been expelled from their
original countries. Some possible views could be:
- The daily life in a refugee’s camp.
- The citizenship and the states solidarity /lack of solidarity.
- Manipulation of information / to demonize and to stigmatize
migrant people.
- Causes that make families leave their countries.
-What
treatment
will
Europe/Spain/Valencia?
refugees
received
in
3. Participation is limited to one entry per artist. Size of the
work must be 30 x 30 cm, a 3 mm bleed around the image is
required.
5. Participants should submit works in two files: one) in
high-quality TIFF, PDF or JPG format (a maximum quality),
with 300 dpi resolution in order to be printed; and two) in
low-quality, PNG, JPG or web format.
6. Works should be sent by email to expo@apiv.com, writing in
the subject: “REFUGEES + name or alias of the artist”. If the
email is larger than 5 Mb it should be sent using the free file
delivery service We Transfer.
7. A part from the illustration, it should be attached a text file
including:
- Name or alias of the artist.
- Title or topic of the work.
- Email address (only if the artist wants it to appear next to
his/her name on the artwork label).
- Web page (only if the artist wants it to appear next to his/her
name on the artwork label).
8. The deadline for submissions is on the 1st March 2016 at
00:00h.
RESOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: (in Spanish)
• (Video) Salvados “Refugiados: sin noticias de Europa”:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3e0km7
• (Article) “La jungla de Europa”. Reportage by Marta Arias
about the refugee camp in Calais, 3 hours away from Paris:
http://www.revista5w.com/why/la-jungla-europa
• Dossier Oxfam Intermón:
http://www.oxfamintermon.org/es/que-hacemos/accion-human
itaria/buscando-refugio
• (Brochure) “Los medios de comunicación y las personas
refugiadas”. Glossary with terms addressed to journalists.
ACNUR:
http://www.acnur.es/PDF/folletomedios2014_final_241014_20
141112113618.pdf
• Valencian citizen platform, “València ciutat refugi”
http://valenciaciudadrefugio.org/
2. This year, exceptionally, it will be possible to every illustrator,
that wants to, to participate in this exhibition, regardless of
being or not member of APIV, and from every part of the world,
with the purpose of attaining the biggest difusion.
All the received illustrations, as long as they respect the
Human Rights and people’s dignity, they will be uploaded to a
web site created for the occasion, in blog or tumblr format and
they will be released in social networks.
More information:
www.apiv.com
www.facebook.com/apiv.valencia