Call is out now for current students to take part in this fantastic opportunity: Here is the call:
Site
Responsive Land Art for the 21st Century - A residency opportunity
for students.
May
27th - June 1st 2013
Site
Responsive Land Art for the 21st Century is a one week project, which forms
part of the University’s involvement in a year long partnership project called
‘Park Traces’ between the University, AirSpace gallery, and Stoke-on-Trent
council, to creatively document Hanley Park, and create a lasting record of the
park as it is today.
The project
provides an opportunity for students to take part in a site responsive research
project, with real outcomes. You will work with 3 artists to generate artworks in
response to this Inner City Victorian Park, the works produced will feed into
the Heritage Lottery Funded research and development project, which is working
towards bidding for a £4.9m HLF grant. (A bid development grant of £420,000 has
already been secured.)
‘Park
Traces: Site Responsive Land Art for the 21st Century’ project is
part of a larger 12 month intervention and documentation project, which aims to
document a year in the life of an inner-city public park.
You
will work as co-producers on the residency, and will use photography, drawing,
geomapping techniques, sound and text to gather information and formulate a
response. You will then use and extend your own practice and skills to build an
intervention in the park, which will aim to draw attention to the park's
features, and suggest solutions for the future. We will also discuss the role
of artists in social contexts, and will talk about creative consultation in
relation to the artworks produced. The artworks that you produce will be
exhibited in an open air exhibition during FRINGE as a way to instigate conversation
with park users about the future developments of the park.
This
is a fantastic opportunity for you to gain invaluable experience for your CV,
in exhibiting as well as working on a public realm project.
The
project will be documented and shown on a project blog, and results will also
be used in a publication.
You need to
be able to commit to working from 10 - 5 each day on the following days in
order to eligible to take up this opportunity.
May 27th:
Walks and talks in the park, first explorations and stakeholder meetings.
May 28th:
Photographic Geomapping and GPS Data
building, and basic consultation techniques.
May 29th:
Drawing response.
May 30th:
Proposal for intervention
May 31st:
Finalising responses and fabrication ahead of Exhibition
June 1st:
Public Exhibition
£25 per
student will be made available to spend in the art shop on materials for your
response.
To apply for a place on the Residency
please email: a 250 word statement detailing why you are right for this
opportunity, and how you would approach it to a.m.francis@staffs.ac.uk by
Monday, May 6th 2013.
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