Yitong River is Changchun's mother river. It rises from the north slope of Qingding Mountain which belongs to Hadaling Mountain Range within Yitong County, Jilin Province, and flows into the Second Songhua River. It is 342.5 km long, the 286.9 km of which runs through Changchun city and is the largest river in the urban area of Changchun. Yitong River, with its profound historical and cultural heritage, has endowed Changchun city with distinctive advantages to promote its cultural taste and establish an international identification for the city.
Yitong River, which means “ surging river” in Manchu language, was a broad river in ancient times. It was lined by luxuriant trees along both banks, and attracted a steady stream of visitors at that time. During the Ming and the Qing dynasties, Yitong River served as an important golden waterway for grain transportation and played a significant role in transportation of northeast China. The development of the water and land transportation also promoted the economic prosperity along both sides of the river, and a unique cultural landscape was formed here. After 1930s, due to years of silting up and soil erosion, it began to dry up throughout the year, and then declined gradually year after year. After the founding of new China, Changchun Municipal People’s Government has converted the 48km of the river, from the site under the dam of Xinlicheng Reservoir to Wanbao River Sluice, into a landscape belt integrating urban landscape, farm irrigation, relaxation and recreation, and has renovated the ecological environment of the flood area which is to the north of Sihua River Sluice of Yitong River since 2011. After the official opening of the Northeast China Wetland Park to the public in 2012, Yitong River has presented a brand-new look up to now. In 2015, Changchun city started a new round of projects for the comprehensive improvement of Yitong River. The comprehensive treatment takes “Eco-first”, “water treatment and city management carried out simultaneously” and “culture as the root” as the principles, striving to build Yitong River a “stroll of Eco-axis” featuring in the livable environment, a “belt of vitality” focusing on its economic growth, and “a source of life” focusing on new city spirit.
Build a city mother river of “ clear water”, “green banks” and “ enjoyable life” • Culture Gathering Belt
Background and Requirements
The selected sculpture works will be permanently displayed in the public space of the middle designated section of Yitong River (between South Third Ring Road and Sihua River Sluice) . This middle part to be improved covers an area of 670 hectares, and under the principle of green and sustainable development, 10 theme parks are to be established here as planned so as to build a city mother river of “clear water”, “green banks” and “enjoyable life” and a culture gathering belt. The final works of this year’s symposium would be installed in nine of the ten parks. The theme of the proposed sculptures are required to suit that of the parks, and the sculptures are required to match the surrounding landscape. We are expecting sculpture works that can be best integrated to the surrounding environment, reflect the city’s culture, and embody the era spirit. All the submitted proposals must be original outdoor landscape sculpture designs. The author must have all the intellectual property rights of the work. We hope that with the extraordinary creativity and imagination, the artists can display the cultural connotation of Yitong River and give a new era significance to the river by creating the art works that can go perfectly with the surrounding environment and embody the regional characteristics of the city. The proposed works are expected to be in beautiful forms and of high artistic values, and meet the special requirements of public art, which are reliability, security and permanency.
Soliciting, Scale and Evaluation
This symposium adopts a selection method of special invitation and public soliciting together, calling for the internationally well-known art institutions, colleges and universities, and sculptor individuals.
The number of sculpture works is planned to be 56 (adjustable according to the quality of the works). Sculptors can submit for different themes. Groups of sculptures are encouraged.
Evaluation: A judging panel composed of the well-known sculptors and artists will evaluate all the proposed sculpture works. The final results would be published at the website of Changchun Urban Sculpture Planning and Management Office（http://uspmo.ccsculpture.org/ccdsb.action?ym=index）. The organizing committee will send invitational letter and exhibition contract which stipulates the responsibilities, rights and duties of both parties to the author. The selected sculptors should send back the signed contract and a maquette of about 50cm size to the organizing committee.
Reward and Production
The selected sculptor will be awarded 60,000 RMB (after tax) as the creation fee after the production and installation of the work , and a certificate will be issued by the organizing committee.
It is required that all selected sculptors should send the maquette to the organizing committee within the stipulated time and the maquettes will be permanently collected by Changchun Sculpture Gallery. All the selected sculpture works will be enlarged by the organizing committee collectively, and therefore the author of the selected sculpture work must be present at the production site to enlarge the maquettee in person. The organizing committee will provide the author with assistants for the production of the work and cover the author’s (himself/herself) travel expenses (one-time round trip economy air ticket from the author’s residence to the production site ) and the author’s accommodation during the enlargement of the sculpture work.
Submission and Requirement:
Applicants should visit the website of Changchun Urban Sculpture Planning and Management Office (http://uspmo.ccsculpture.org/ccdsb.action?ym=index) to download the registration form and design instructions.
The completed submission of one single design should include: the filled-out registration form, the picture of the proposed sculpture work, passport photocopy of the author and one recent daily photo of the author.
Each submitted design should contain the completed necessary materials mentioned above. No single item in the registration form should be arbitrarily omitted. Foreign applicants (except Chinese origins) are kindly requested to fill out the registration form in English. The picture of the design should be in JPG format (resolution 300 dpi), without indicating any literal information on the picture. The picture is required to be named with the author’s name, the title of the proposed sculpture work, the dimension and the material of the work, for example, Rodin “Thinker” 145*98*180cm Bronze. JPG). Overdue submission will not be accepted.
The submission materials should be sent to cccsculpture@163.com; the deadline is April 15, 2017. (In case of any special circumstance, please contact the organizing committee office directly)
Intellectual Property Protection
The design should not infringe any third party’s patent, copyright, trademark right, reputation right or any other lawful rights and interests.
All literal information, picture, graphics, audio or video materials contained in the proposed design receive the legal protection for copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights. They are not allowed to be published or broadcast without the consent of the participating authors.
The organizer has the right to compile, publish and release the selected sculptures and authorize Changchun Municipal People’s Government to use them for public welfare purpose, etc.
Important Time Schedule
Deadline of Submission: April 15, 2017
Evaluation: the results of the evaluation would be finally published by late April, 2017
Production and Installation: June 25,2017- August 31, 2017
Opening of the Exhibition: September, 2017.
Contact
The Organizing Committee Office of the 18th China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium
Liaison: Zhao Yue (Aimee)
Address: 9777 Yatai Str, Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Changchun Sculpture Planning and Management Office
Tel:0431 89189756
Fax:0431 89189756
Email:cccsculpture@163.com
Attachments:
1. The registration form of the 18th China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium
2. The Design Instruction of the Middle Section of Yitong River
Website for downloading the documents:
http://uspmo.ccsculpture.org/ccdsb.action?ym=index
Please scan the following QR code to join the symposium group for more information about the symposium.
The organizing committee reserves the final interpretation of this event.
We will carefully review your submission, soliciting opinions from all sides, organize experts to evaluate the proposed sculpture designs. Once selected, the organizing committee will sign the Production Contract with the author. We sincerely welcome your submission.
