Dear artist,
we hope this email finds you well.
We want to invite you for this amazing opportunity to provide us with your labor and creativity for free. We especially designed an open call to give us a wide overview of potential projects and works without having to invest any of our own time or capacity for research. The framework of this open call is very wide, so that we do not have to make any commitment. As the theme of care is very important to us in our curatorial and institutional practice, we made sure to really care about ourselves first. Therefore it is important for us that things are handed to us on a silver platter without us having to engage with you and your actual practice too intensely.
We know that you are the most precarious chain in the art world system and therefore depend on the glimpses of hope for visibility that we are able to dangle before your eyes. Because of this, we trust that you will eagerly invest time and money to provide us with texts and images for a work that most likely will never happen, since we actually kind of already know who we want to have in the exhibition.
As funding is not secured for the project at this time we cannot let you know the amount of compensation we can offer, but rest assured that we will make sure that the artists we are friends with will receive the biggest part of any potential budget. This also means that you should make sure to continue to be nice to us in the illusion that this could give you access to an inner circle and to the opportunities such a position brings.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact our assistants who will happily send you a reply from a limited stock of vague answers.
We are looking forward to receiving your application to quickly skim over while simultaneously scrolling through Instagram.
We wish you best of luck, not necessarily for this open call, since no luck can save you, but more generally in life since you fell for the scam of studying art without generational wealth.
Best regards and greetings from Venice
The caring curators