Opportunities International
Deadline 15 July 2013
Working in partnership, Jerwood Visual Arts and Photoworks invite submissions of existing or proposed work for inclusion in a Jerwood Encounters exhibition curated by Photoworks and showing at Jerwood Space, London in November 2013.
The exhibition will present new commissions and/or existing work by three emerging artists/photographers relating to ‘Family Politics’ – the curatorial theme of the first issue of Photoworks Annual which will launch alongside the exhibition.
Curatorial Theme: Family Politics
As a subject, the family is both private and public: the site of intimate inter-personal relations and a social construct subject to public and political pressures. This relationship is mirrored in examples of family photography. The majority of family pictures serve essentially private functions, accruing meaning through their relationship to the memories, experiences and histories of individuals. However, the family is also the subject of public photographic representation and contestation largely through digital media and ‘over sharing’. This involves a wide variety of practices, including representations in the mass media, art and advertising.
Eligibility: Both Photoworks Annual and the exhibition will be open to the expanded way in which photography is being used today. Work submitted for the exhibition may include approaches not specific to photography (eg sculpture, film, drawing, tapestry) but should draw on a photographic language and reference points.
Submissions are sought from UK-based practitioners who are within five years of graduating or setting up their practice.
How to apply:
- Please email a PDF document, no larger than 5mb, to jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk including the following information:
- A short statement outlining how your work (existing or proposed) relates to the theme of ‘family politics’.
- Up to five images with captions
- A one page CV
Fee: An artist fee of £1000 will be available for participating artists. Dependent on the nature of the selected works, some additional exhibition production support will also be available from the Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts teams.
Selection Process: All proposals will be considered by members of the Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts team. One or more artists will be selected for exhibition from this open call.
Timeline: Deadline for submissions: 5pm 15 July 2013
Artists notified: 26 July 2013
Exhibition development: July – October 2013
Installation: 30 October – 4 November 2013
Exhibition open: 6 November – 8 December 2013
For more see: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org | www.photoworks.org.uk
The EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) is currently seeking expressions of interest for the establishment of a list of experts to assist them in the framework of management of the Community programmes, including culture and audiovisual.
The experts’ duties will be to assist the Agency, or where applicable, the Commission, in the performance of the tasks mentioned below, with reference to programme objectives, the priorities and criteria laid down in the calls for proposals, as well as the guides and manuals made available to applicants.
The tasks to be performed include:
- Evaluating proposals received in response to calls for proposals
- Evaluating and monitoring projects:
- evaluating project reports
- evaluating project products and results
- project monitoring and site visits
- any other tasks relating to the analysis and/or monitoring of programmes and projects
- Specific studies and analyses relating to fields of activity
The call for expressions is open until 30 June 2013 and more information and the link to the online application can be found here.
On the 4, 5 and 6 of November, the Culture Forum will gather cultural policy makers, stakeholders, artists and cultural professionals, and address some of the hottest topics for the sector at the moment. The DG EAC has launched a call for ideas – open until 20 June.
The Forum’s programme will include a variety of formats: plenary panels for in-depth discussions, short flash sessions to inform on other hot topics, and much more…
There will be three thematic pillars for the plenary sessions:
- Measuring the true value of culture and the functioning of the cultural eco-system
- Funding culture in the digital era, looking at the new funding models based on developing loyalty and building communities of followers, as well as institution centred models, such as corporate sponsorship, co-production and artistic interventions in business or public services.
- Audience development and making cultural participation a reality, looking at holistic 360 degree strategies, reaching non-audiences, participatory art, and partnerships and synergies with other sectors.
For more information please visit the European Commission website.
We are inviting a wide range of individuals/organisations across art-forms to propose new works or existing works for our summer 2014 festival programme.
The festival will celebrate the remarkable chemical factories that are plants and fungi. Plants and fungi have been used by humans both in ancient and contemporary times for therapeutic and recreational purposes.
Thought-provoking, fun and exemplary – displays, installations, exhibitions, performances/theatre* workshops, trails and info-graphics, etc, for the Kew landscape.
*Performance and theatre proposals must demonstrate that the work can be experienced by significant visitor numbers per performance. Proposals can also be a complimentary and ancillary activity to a proposed installation/display, etc.
Festival content is required to be durable, robust and able to last in the open elements for up to 4 months (including install and de-install).
We are seeking proposals from £5,000 to £100,000 to cover all artist fees, fabrication, structural engineering, insurance, transport, sub contractors, installation, maintenance, de-installation and re-location.
Your commission should link with Kew’s science and conservation work and all successful commissions will be used to reinforce Kew’s mission to visitors.
You are welcome to apply for more than one commission.
Go to http://www.kew.org/about-kew/jobs/creative-commission-2014/index.htm for all information.
Deadline for questions is 17 June 2013 | Deadline for Proposals 24 June 2013
DISPOSITIFS POST- #1 OPEN CALL
Urban Spaces – Social Fabric – Voids / Transformations – Transfers – Creativities.
Interventions in public space in a post-crisis context.
New deadline: 21.06.2013.
More information at idensitat.net
DISPOSITIFS POST- is a project by IDENSITAT, a proposal for several phases of site-specific, imaginative interventions for the use of public space in the future beyond a post-crisis scenario, realised in collaboration with the collective Recreant Cruïlles (Recreating Crossroads), and with Germanetes, situated on the Left Eixample of Barcelona.
Call for ideas and projects for interventions in the public space adjacent to the Germanetes site which promote its temporary use, while also promoting interdisciplinary proposals, and a future projection based upon the idea of a post-crisis urban landscape.
- A selection of projects and ideas from the open call will be displayed in an exhibition / intervention organised around the Germanetes site, using public and private (authorised for public use) spaces.
- Invited projects, and the selected projects, will participate in a seminar in the Fundació Tàpies, around subjects related with the topics of the call.
Selection committee: Itzíar González, architect. Francesc Magrinyà, engineer. Ramon Parramon, IDENSITAT director. Laurence Rassel, Fundació Tàpies director. Joan Subirats, political scientist
This call is aimed at artists, architects, designers, students in these disciplines, or groups interested in art projects related to social contexts, as well as transdisciplinary teams incorporating sociologists, anthropologists/social workers, social educators, residents of a district or collectives working on social issues in district contexts, and any individuals or collectives with an interest in arts projects related to the concept of the district.
DISPOSITIFS POST- Is part of the project ECLECTIS. European Citizens’ Laboratory for Empowerment CiTIes Shared. Project co-funded by European Union – Culture programme- cooperation projects
Application Deadline: June 1, 2013
An MFA should be a short term investment in a long career.
Ongoing connections, critique and support are essential ingredients for a vital artistic practice and successful academic career, equally important to the work itself. Join an international group of emerging and mid-career artists and curators. Transartists stay connected and active, continuing to show, curate and perform together internationally.
Build a sustainable practice, create your own course of study, get the support you need from advisors, find a balance between your artwork and other professional obligations while you are in the program. Keep working, pay as you go.
On-site and on-line, 2 winter sessions in New York, 3 summer sessions in Berlin, work wherever you live.
This summer. Come to Berlin, meet your colleagues and advisors. Make your plans, get a creative surge with workshops, seminars, pecha kuchas, artist talks, tours, multiple crits, discussion groups and the biennial Transartfest.
Make the work you’ve always wanted to in any media with the support of your studio advisors and weekly crit group. Support your studio work with whatever research interests you and best supports your practice.
Become a Transartist, debt-free, with a thriving practice and career in 2 years.
Talk to Transartists, faculty and advisors by skype or in person to hear more.
The European Cultural Foundation and ENCATC, a European network on Arts and Cultural Management and Cultural Policy education, have launched a call for applications for the 7th Young Cultural Policy Researchers (YCPR) Forum.
The forum is aimed at providing young and/or early career cultural policy researchers with the “opportunity to meet fellow researchers, share their experiences and analyse topical research issues regarding content and methodology.”
The forum will be held in Brussels on the 4 – 5 November 2013. If you are interested in participating you must submit an application no later than 7 June 2013. Attendance at the forum is free of charge. Nine young promising researchers will receive a travel and/or accommodation grant to attend. They will be chosen on the basis of their submitted research abstracts and submitted letters of recommendation.
To download the 2013 application form click here.
Deadline: 15th May
The prefix ‘trans-’ points to some of the problems of universal concepts and ongoing boundary disputes between epistemes. It modifies the meaning of what it is attached to: transaction, transcription, transgression, translocation, transmission, translation, transdisciplinarity, to name only a few of the many examples in contemporary culture. Transart Institute positions itself in these alternative name-spaces where art practice, knowledge production, and research processes operate in the tensions between, across, through, and beyond establishing paradigms. Rather than prefixing meaning, Hito Steyerl talks about artistic research speaking several languages at once – and as “an act of translation”. But if this is the case, the symposium asks how do we further translate ‘trans’ to account for the apparent normalisation of its application?
As part of an ongoing process of developing a research community and network, we are organising our first symposium in a series of bi-annual events. In doing this, we wish to be reflexive (not least about the use of the term trans-art), and invite researchers, artist-researchers, artists, and others, to explore some of these acts of translation.
We are seeking proposals from researchers, artists, artist-researchers, curators, and academics for short papers or alternative forms of presentation such as performance-lectures. Submissions might relate to the following as a point of departure and as a possible structure for the symposium:
- modes of communication and exchange (trans-actions, trans-missions).
- forms and paradigms through which artistic research operates (trans-scriptions, trans-disciplinarities)
- spaces in which knowledge is formed, produced and disseminated (trans-locations)
- the deeper consequences of changing something to something else (trans-gressions, trans-formations, trans-lations)
We hope to uncover alternative models of knowledge production; to excavate relatively forgotten histories of attempts to rethink organizational and institutional structures; to explore the potential of technological paradigms to redefine possibilities; and reveal examples of non-traditional methods, use of non-textual language, speculations, and actions.
For more information and details on submitting, please visit: www.transart.org/transartfest/trans-what/
Sky Arts are searching across the UK and Ireland for an inspiring and talented artist who can be crowned Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.
Artists of all abilities, aged 16 and over, are invited to apply to participate at Sky.com/Portrait.
Four heats will take place at free art festivals in London, Dublin, Glasgow and Cardiff over summer 2013. At these festivals, participants will be challenged to produce a portrait of one of three sitters, and will receive help and advice from a panel of expert judges. At the end of each heat the judges will choose the artist they believe to be the most talented to go through to the final. The Judges will be Kathleen Soriano, Director of Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, renowned portrait artist Tai Schan Schierenberg and Kate Bryan, Head of Contemporary at The Fine Art Society. There will be a number of leading artists acting as mentors throughout the series including Jonathan Yeo.
Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year will aim to discover and nurture artists of all capabilities including enthusiastic amateurs and professionals who want the chance to develop and showcase their skills. Participants will be able to seek advice from some of the top names in the art world and the series finalists will see their work displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. The winner will join a select group of distinguished artists who may be considered for a future project by the Gallery, and will be awarded a £10,000 commission to paint double-Booker and Costa Award-winning author Hilary Mantel for The British Library. The painting of Mantel will be displayed at The British Library and become part of its permanent art collection. They will also receive a year’s supply of art materials courtesy of leading fine art supplier Cass Art.
Entry to the competition is free, and we are hoping to spread the word to as many potential competitors as possible. We would be delighted if you would pass the information about the competition on to your members or any artists who might be interested. There is a digital flyer is attached to this email.
For details in how to participate in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year please visit Sky.com/Portrait The closing date for submissions is midday on Thursday 2nd May.
Entry details and requirements can be found at www.sky.com/portrait
[UK Artists only]
‘Open’ is a £1 million call for artists working in all media, anywhere in the UK, to come forward with bold site-specific proposals that will transform the UK’s cultural landscape. Submission deadline is 29 April. Read more www.artangel.org.uk/open
