Commissions

CSPA Supports has launched!

December 18, 2010newsBook Selection, Co Founder, Commissions, Creative Fees, Cspa Members, Essay Questions, Grant Program, International Applications, Knowledge Network, Live Performance, March 1, Miranda Wright, Perception, Professional Work, Proposed Project, Public Art Installation, Short Essay, sustainability, Sustainable Practice, Wright Co

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts is pleased to announce a new initiative: CSPA Supports.

â€œThe CSPA Supports grant program is designed to support the projects of our members as they consider issues of sustainability (ecological, economic, or cultural) in their professional work,â€ comments Miranda Wright, co-founder of the CSPA.

â€œSince founding the CSPA, it has been our goal to offer grants or commissions by re-investing a large percentage of any profit we earn back into the arts. Â Â We hope this initiative will enable artists to work on projects that are meaningful to them, and projects that could impact the publicâ€™s perception of what sustainability means.â€

Artists from all genres (and cross genres) are encouraged to apply, including those working in public art, installation, live performance, or digital work. Applicants must be current members of the CSPA. Â Members of the CSPA receive a variety of other benefits, including an annual book selection, subscriptions to the CSPA Quarterly and Mammut Magazine, monthly e-newsletters, and opportunities to submit articles, essays, and information to the CSPAâ€™s multi-faceted knowledge network.

Grants will support materials, creative fees, documentation, travel, and communications related to a proposed project. Â International applications are accepted, and projects may take place anywhere in the world. Â The application consists of an online form, short essay questions, and a proposed budget. The deadline for round one of CSPA Supports is March 1, 2011.

To join the CSPA, visit www.sustainablepractice.org/join-the-cspa

To apply for a CSPA Supports grant, and for grant guidelines, visit www.sustainablepractice.org/cspasupports

Tipping Point Announces Second Round of Commissions

November 16, 2010news5pm, Application Form, Arts Festivals, Commission Proposals, Commissions, Consortium, Guidance, Tipping Point, Tippingpoint

From the Tipping Point Website:

We are pleased to announce that our second round of commissions is now launched.

This year we are delighted to be able to offer a co-commission withÂ Without Walls, the consortium of 8 of the UK’s most strategically significant outdoor arts festivals.

We will be able to sponsor around 6 commissions and will offer awards as follows.

One award of up to Â£30k (this will be a co-commission between TippingPoint and Without Walls and should meet specific criteria)
One award of up to Â£25k (TippingPoint Commission)
Two awards of up to Â£15k (TippingPoint Commission)
One award of up to Â£10k (TippingPoint Commission)
Two awards of up to Â£5k (TippingPoint Commission)

Proposals must be submitted byÂ Monday 6th December at 5pm. For further guidance and a full application form please download the following document:Â TP Commissions Round 2 How to apply.doc

Land Art and changing perspectives

February 17, 2010news, RSA Arts & Ecology20th Century, Art Tv, Changing Perspectives, Commissions, Curators, Ecology, Form Of Art, Freek, Gerry Schum, High Tides, Inequalities, Jan Dibbets, Land Art, Latitudes, Liberation, Maasvlakte, Parallel Lines, Perspective, Rising Tide, Robert Smithson, Skor, Tide, Tv Broadcast

Filming Jan Dibbetâ€™sÂ 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, 1969

Jan DibbetsÂ 6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, Maasvlakte beach, 8 February 2009

A year ago this week as part of theÂ Portscapes project, the artist Jan Dibbets had what he called a â€œsecond attemptâ€ at his 1969 pieceÂ 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective; the artist and curators rejected the idea of the event being a recreation. The apparently parallel lines are drawn on the beach and disappear again within the space between two high tides.

The original work became part of the canon of Land Art when it was included in Gerry Schumâ€™s 1969 Â Land Art TV broadcast, alongside pieces by Robert Smithson and Richard Long. For Schum the attraction of Land Art was its liberation of art from the gallery. He was trying to make a TV-based form of art that suited the more democratic half of the 20th century.

In the second attempt the work becomes more obviously about manâ€™s relationship to the natural world, partly becauseÂ Portscapes, which we list as one of theÂ 21 highlights of 2009, was a series of commissions byÂ Latitudes on a piece of land that will disappear as part of the new Dutch industrial port complexÂ Maasvlakte 2. And the piece now seems to emphasise the tidal inequalities of that relationship. Just as Dibbettâ€™s illusory parallel lines are seen being washed away by the rising tide, so this beach will soon be gone. That is another perspective shift, of a kind.

Read more about 6 Hours Tide Objectâ€¦ here

Photos: Latitudes, Paloma Polo/SKOR and Freek van Arkel

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Manchester Festival announces programme: itâ€™s good

March 24, 2009news, RSA Arts & Ecology10m, Budget, Commisions, Commissions, Decisions, Ecology, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Environmental Sanity, Festivals, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan, Jonathan Mills, Manchester Festival, Manchester International, Plea, RSA Arts & Ecology, Sculpture, Trees

The second Manchester International Festival released its 2009 programme this week. It’s turning into the the best multi-platform arts festival in the UK – but then the size of its budget – a whopping Â£10m this year – probably helps with that. That said, they’re making great artistic decisions. While the Edinburgh International Festival is clearly on the up under Jonathan Mills, Manchester is setting a great standard in new commissions.

And obviously chosing to put an image for Gustav Metzger’s new plea for environmental sanity Flailing Trees, which is one of those commisions, on the cover shows a kind of ethical intent which other festivals need to match.

More about Metzger’s sculpture here.

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C.R.A.S.H. : Artsadmin and The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination – commission, events and course – April – June

March 11, 2009Ashden Directory3 April, Art Activist, City Of London, Climate Change, Commissions, Crash, Culture, Current Conditions, Democratic Communities, Design Art, Ecological Conditions, Imagination, Intensive Training, Interventions, Permaculture Design, Promenade, Share Performance, Street Art, Sustainable Alternatives, Uk Directory

From April to June 2009Â ArtsadminÂ will be working withÂ The Laboratory of Insurrectionary ImaginationÂ (LABOFII)onÂ C.R.A.S.H., experimenting with sustainable alternatives to the current financial and ecological conditions.

C.R.A.S.H is part ofÂ “2 degrees”Â Artadmin’s festival of art and climate change.

C.R.A.S.H contains two parts:Â
1)Â C.R.A.S.H CourseÂ is free, intensive training by LABOFII, combining permaculture design, art activist tactics and skills for building ecological and democratic communities, from 1 – 14 June.

2)Â C.R.A.S.H CultureÂ is a week of commissioned actions, street art, skill-share, performance lectures and interventions across the City of London and a nightly promenade performance in an abandoned office block, from 17 – 21 June.

There are also commissions for internventions of Â£500 being offered, deadline 3 April.

More information and applications for the course and commissions are onÂ labofii.net/experiments/crash.

www.labofii.netÂ
www.artsadmin.co.uk

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Tipping Point to commission climate change performances – 4 May deadline

March 11, 2009Ashden DirectoryApplication Form, Array, Broadcaster, Cecilia, Change Nick, Climate Change, Commission Awards, Commissions, Creative Reflections, Curator, Curators, Devlin, Further Information Contact, John Ashton, Maresa, Performance Work, Selection Panel, Shortlisted Applicants, Springboard, Stockert, Tipping Point

Editors’ note: This commission is unique among those dealing with art and climate change in its focus on performance and theatre.

TheÂ Tipping Point CommissionsÂ are inviting artists to submit proposals for new performance work in the context of climate change. The proposals will be considered by a selection panel, leading to around four commission awards of at most Â£30,000.

The theme of climate change is intended to provide a springboard for the commissions. Artists are invited to submit projects that stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to comprehend a world dominated by climate change. The Tipping Point Commissions are seeking proposals that offer creative reflections on a world that is rapidly changing and on humanity’s role and responsibilities within it.

Proposals can be made by practitioners of any performance discipline, as individuals or groups, by artists on their own or together with curators or producers.

Proposals must be submitted by 4 May at 5pm. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to develop ideas and attend an interview. The selection panel which will include:

Graham Devlin: Chairman, Tipping Point (Chairman of Selection Panel)
John Ashton: UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate ChangeÂ
Nick Starr: Executive Director, National TheatreÂ
Maresa von Stockert: Director, Tilted ProductionsÂ
Cecilia Wee: Writer, Broadcaster and Curator

The criteria for the TippingPoint Commissions and the application form is availableÂ here.For further information, contactÂ Angela McSherry.

www.tippingpoint.org.uk/commissions

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