Public Art Needs Outsiders & Public Art Needs Time Limits

Thursday 03/12/2009

Professional Development and Workshop opportunity for Artists and independent Curators

Following on from the recent dialogues and debates around Manifesta, in Cornwall, ProjectBase is offering two places for Artists and independent Curators to participate in the following workshops

“What Public Art Needs Now!”

ixia and Situations have developed a series of groundbreaking Seminars framed by a provocative response to the statement: “What Public Art Needs Now!”
The Seminars will examine different aspects of emergent and alternative models of contemporary public art commissioning by focusing on the role of the curator/commissioner within an exemplary international public art project. Organised through informal illustrated presentations, group discussions and critical responses, the three Seminars will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear from, and question, the commissioners behind the projects, the artists and other participants involved, and respondents from the contemporary public art sector.

Public Art Needs Outsiders

Wednesday 7th October, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria

Speakers include: Adam Sutherland, Director, Grizedale Arts; Alistair Hudson, Deputy Director, Grizedale Arts; Paul Domela,Programme Director, Liverpool Biennial, Higher Education & International Exchange; Jeanne van Heeswijk, Artist, Artist-commissioner, The Blue House, IJburg, The Netherlands; Andreas Lang of publicworks, commissioned artist, Creative Egremont;

Moderator: Paul O’Neill, GWR Research Fellow at Situations

For further information about the seminar please follow this link www.ixia-info.com/training/public-art-needs-outsiders

Public Art Needs Time Limits

Thursday 3rd December, Spike Island, Bristol
Speakers include: Mark Beasley, formerly Curator, Creative Time and Curator of This World Nearer Ones, a site-specific exhibition of temporary work on New York’s Governor’s Island. From July 2009, Curator, Performa, the acclaimed New York-based arts organisation dedicated to performance; David Cross, Co-Director, One Day Sculpture, New Zealand, and Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand; Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural Research, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and author of Art and Architecture: A Place Between, London: I B Tauris, 2006; Helen Marriage, Director of Artichoke and producer of Antony Gormley’s One and Other, Fourth Plinth

Moderator: Claire Doherty, Director of Situations, UWE, Curatorial Director of One Day Sculpture, New Zealand and Co-Curatorial Director, Sea Change, Weston-super-Mare, 2010

For further information about the seminar please follow this link:  www.ixia-info.com/training/public-art-needs-time-limits

How to Apply & Eligibility

  • Applications by email to sara@projectbase.org.uk to include: written proposal explaining why this opportunity is important to you and how it will support your practice (maximum 400 words) & current CV, contact details, full legal name for travel purposes
  • Applications to be received by 30 September
  • Applicants must live &/or work in Cornwall
  • Applications to be assessed by Sara Black (Director ProjectBase), Miranda Bird (Director Cornwall Culture), Julie Seyler (Creative Services, Cornwall Council)
  • Applicants can apply for one or both workshops, please stipulate on your application
  • Applicants for the Grizedale Workshop need to be available for 7th & 8th October, applicants for Spike Island Workshop need to be available for 3rd December

What’s included

  • Grizedale Workshop: Travel from Cornwall to Grizedale Arts early 7th October, returning late 8th October, flying Newquay to Manchester, and transport Manchester to Grizedale, 1 night accommodation, Workshop delegate fee, Airport ADF
  • Spike Island Workshop: Travel Cornwall to Bristol by train up to £50, Workshop delegate fee

ProjectBase is a commissioning organisation based in Cornwall with a programme including the commissioning of innovative artists' projects, often outside conventional gallery or museum contexts, and public events, talks and seminars. ProjectBase builds sustainable, long-term partnerships with local communities to develop new audiences, increase the offer and widen the opportunity for engagement, particularly in place-based contexts, rather than formal white-cube environments.

ProjectBase is working in partnership with Situations and University College Falmouth incorporating Dartington College of Arts, on a 3-year GWR research project, Locating the Producers, led by Claire Doherty, Situations www.situations.org.uk/research_ltp
 
This professional development opportunity is supported by Arts Council England and Cornwall Council