YaYaYa(2024)

for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation - 6 February,

an International Open Call for Artists, Film and Video makers, Creatives,

Clitorians, Peniles, Profits and Collectors from all over the world

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https://YAYAYA.art

https://TheClitorisMuseum.art 

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R&Pcult presents "YaYaYa(2024)", an original and contemporary initiative created to help accelerate the end of female genital mutilation - FGM - through Art.

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Is Art capable of awakening the sensitivity for the end of the barbarisms we are still facing in the adulthood of the 21st century?

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In this open call, we are inviting artists, film and video makers artists and creatives from all over the world to send their work that address the topic of female genital mutilation.

 

We want to research and exhibit how contemporary art has been reflecting this humanitarian emergency, as well as promote collaboration and support from everyone in favor of - #EndFGM #YouthEndFGM - the end of Feminine Genital Mutilation worldwide, accelerating The United Nations goal to end FGM by 2030.

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​Every human deserves protection, pleasure, Art, and action. This is an opportunity to act. 

 

WHO?

This initiative is open to all Artists, Film and Video Makers and Creatives -  either Individuals or Collectives, to all Clitorians, all Peniles, all Profits and all Collectors, from all over the world and for every year until the end of Female Genital Mutilation. The UN aims to #EndFGMby2030.

 

HOW?

• The open call, the exhibition, the auction and everything else will take place online at https://YAYAYA2024.art

• The number of artworks we will select to exhibit for YAYAYA(2024) will depend on the submissions received and on the potential for dialogue between the artworks. Beware, we are curators!

• For this exhibition we are going to show lenses, media and technologies based artworks from all over the world, but we will reward four artists only, from three specific countries - Ethiopia, Indonesia and Egypt - and one from the South American continent - Argentina, Bolivia,  Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Equador,Guiana, Paraguai, Peru, Suriname, Uruguai, Venezuela.This choice is informed by the biggest concentration of female genital mutilation cases in the 3 before mentioned countries, by the persistance  of the practice in South America - only known in the aboriginal tribe of Emberá,[1] in Colombia - and by the mission of R&Pcult of promoting South American artists. 

• $1.000 USD Prize - to be collected either in the form of cash - or - in the form of a donation  to The UN on the winner's behalf - or - as payment towards a 30 day Artistic Residence in 2024 in Venice - Italy, fully funded by us.

• Only one artist, filmmaker and creative, will be chosen for the artistic residence.

• ​The four awarded artworks will be auctioned on 6 February 2024 and 70% of the money will be donated to The United Nations.

• The selection of candidates will be carried out by an international jury selected by R&Pcult. The advisors have professional profiles connected to the world of Art, possessing outstanding competency to analyze and evaluate the artistic aspect and to present a remarkable exhibition.

• We are founding THE CLITORIS MUSEUM TheClitorisMuseum.art

• We are accelerating the #EndFGM #YouthEndFGM

 

Artists, Film/Video Makers and Creatives

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In this open call we are inviting artists, film/video makers and creatives from all over the world to send proposals that address the topic of female genital mutilation by 31 December 2023.

We provide selected artists with a one year online exhibition at yayaya2024.art sales assistance and advisory.

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Clitorians

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​In this open call we are inviting all Clitorians to an urgent upload of closeup images of their clitoris (only clitoris, clitorians) it will be a Museum Artifact Donation, and we will make it as common as praying, as common as flowers, as common as freedom and as common as choices should be. 

The images will be exhibited online. Good and mutilated clitores will create and give to the world: "The CLITORIS MUSEUM - FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE FEMININE and the #EndFGM #YouthEndFGM.

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Peniles and Profits

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​In this open call we are inviting all Peniles and Profits to donate to The UN and support the freedom of the feminine we all came from.

Please, donate.

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​Collectors

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In this open call we are inviting Collectors to place their bids.

The four awarded artworks will be auctioned during the 6 of February 2024 and all the money will be donated to The UN. Bids will be accepted during the international day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation #EndFGM from 00:01 until 23h59 UTC+14.

 

WHAT?

• Artwork, art documentary, video art, photography, short and feature film and new media projects, all based on lenses, media and technologies, that address the topic of female genital mutilation  for the exhibition and auction YAYAYA(2024)

• Clitores closeup images (photographs) for The Clitoris Museum

• Donations to The United Nations

• Bids on the auction

 

WHEN?

• WORKS SUBMISSION Deadline 31 December 2024 23:00 UTC+14 |at yayaya2024.art

• RESULTS 6 February 2024 00:01 UTC+14 |at yayaya2024.art

• THE EXHIBITION 6 February 2024 00:01 - 5 February 2025 23:59 UTC+14 |at yayaya2024.art

• THE AUCTION 6 February 2024 from 00:01 until 23:59 UTC+14 |at yayaya2024.art

 

WHY?

• To help with the ENDING of FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

• To help The United Nations help us

• To help CRIMINALIZE it all over the world so it stops immediately!

• To help save the world, we are almost everybody on the planet already. If you are missing, just come, please!

• To help with the cultural enrichment of all nations of the world

• To help Art help humanity. “We have Art to not die from the Truth”, once said a man called Nietzsche.

• To help YOU act.

 

Terms and Conditions

• All applicants must fill out the form at yayaya2024.art This is your entry/submission. Applications by email WILL NOT be considered.

• Make sure to proofread your entry as it is not possible to make changes afterwards. Please DO NOT email with corrections.

• Submission of an application DOES NOT guarantee participation.

• The selected artworks must be consigned for RPMCF12 during the duration of the one year exhibition. RPMFC12 will provide a letter of agreement containing all details to be reviewed and signed by selected artists on 5 February.

• All artworks included in the show must be included in and subject to the terms of the mentioned agreement.

• All rights reserved to RPMCF12.

 

Contacts:

info@yayaya2024.com about the open call yayaya2024.art

info@theclitorismuseum.com about The Clitoris Museum TheClitorisMuseum.art

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Final words

We fear. But, the YAYAYA project is confronting the silence around one of the most harrowing examples of gender-based violence - female genital mutilation. Google, Facebook, Instagram, Internet, YOU, support us, don't try to stop us. We need you. 

Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, and is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights, the health and integrity of girls and women.

​It is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have experienced this form of violence. While the practice is condemned by international human rights organizations, social and cultural pressures keep FGM a common practice for women around the globe.

​FGM can have devastating consequences for women and girls who endure it, including complications during childbirth, infertility, infections, loss of sexual pleasure and even death. Anti-FGM advocates argue that it has no religious or cultural significance, but rather serves solely to exert power over a woman’s body and sexuality.

the living pain, this is how it is to carry pain during an existence as a human born in those societies

Ifrah Ahmed’s first feeling on the day she suffered female genital mutilation was anxiety. Seeing the adults party, she didn’t know exactly what to expect, but she knew it was something important, that it was going to change her life. In the place of fear, Ifrah realized that what was happening in that place was nothing cool. It was brutal and inevitable. With her hands and legs immobilized, she had her vagina first analyzed, then cut, without consent or anesthesia. The cold, dry cut made Ifrah cry. The girl couldn’t take it anymore, but it wasn’t over yet. With needle and thread, they sewed the remaining skin, making the vagina, instead of the small and large lips, become a huge scar, closed from end to end, interrupted only by a small hole left to come out urine. With her legs tied, she was returned to her parents and remained so for weeks, lying on the floor, suffering in silence, waiting for a healing that never came. In addition to the marks it carries on the body (from the pee that comes out slowly to unbearable pain in the menstrual period). When she remembers that day, Ifrah shivers, her voice breaks, her light face disappears and she becomes economical in the words: “It hurts unbearably. Just remembering, it still hurts me”, 

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