Unjuried
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An unjuried or open access art exhibition or festival is one where all submissions are accepted.[1] Within theater, it is often referred to as a fringe festival, following the unjuried Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
History
Traditionally gatherings have had varying degrees of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, hence broadly speaking, the notion of a "
In theater, unjuried festivals rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, most prominently in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Criteria
Despite declaring no criteria for inclusion, some unjuried exhibits or festivals have constraints on genre. Thus, while they may accept any work of art, they may reject an object as "not art". Notoriously, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain was rejected from an unjuried art exhibition in 1917 as "not being art" – this being a stunt staged by Duchamp to challenge the conventional (even within the avant-garde) definition of "art".
See also
- Fringe theatre
- Juried competition
- Salon des Refusés
- Société des Artistes Indépendants
References
- ^ Wilkinson, Don. "Art Beat: Public Hanging exhibit an unjuried celebration of community creativity". Fall River Herald News.