DIY 10: 2013 - Call for participants
Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists
DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists. Once again Artsadmin is working with Live Art to deliver this project.
DIY
Applications are now welcomed for participation in all DIY10 projects.
DIY10 projects represent a wide variety of approaches and subjects including feminism, masculinity, cage fighting, lap dancing, revisiting regret, Elvis impersonators, socially engaged practices, online protest, Calamity Jane, sleepovers, rebirthing, and much, much more.
Artsadmin is supporting Joshua Sofaer with his project Soho Sideshow
This is an opportunity to discover more about the history and current life in Soho and to develop a bespoke proposal for the area with production support.
Project summary
Six mid-career artists working under the umbrella of Live Art are given the opportunity to make bespoke context-specific proposals for Soho in London. A site visit will include a tour of key historic places, a talk on contemporary challenges for the area, an introduction to organisations, spaces and opportunities, and a brief account of planning requirements and event law.
DIY10 projects represent a wide variety of approaches and subjects including feminism, masculinity, cage fighting, lap dancing, revisiting regret, Elvis impersonators, socially engaged practices, online protest, Calamity Jane, sleepovers, rebirthing, and much, much more.
Artsadmin is supporting Joshua Sofaer with his project Soho Sideshow
This is an opportunity to discover more about the history and current life in Soho and to develop a bespoke proposal for the area with production support.
Project summary
Six mid-career artists working under the umbrella of Live Art are given the opportunity to make bespoke context-specific proposals for Soho in London. A site visit will include a tour of key historic places, a talk on contemporary challenges for the area, an introduction to organisations, spaces and opportunities, and a brief account of planning requirements and event law.
Participating artists will develop proposals specifically for the area individually, and at a later date will present their ideas to The Soho Society, Artsadmin and key local organisations (depending on the needs of specific proposals). Artsadmin will give follow-up support to individual artists in order to move proposals towards the production phase.
Soho is laden with possibilities for the kind of live, interactive, and ephemeral interventions that have come to be understood in the UK as Live Art. It has been the playground of the nation, key in the development of music and fashion. It also has sex shops, cuisine from all over the world, the centre of the UK gay scene, and houses people from all kinds of economic and social backgrounds. In recent years, partly because of foreign investment, Soho has become an area of boutique shopping, expensive cake shops, and High Street stores. This gentrification is not all bad but it does threaten the character of one of the most interesting and historically rich areas of central London. It is the aim that one or more of the ideas will actually be commissioned and that the work produced will reinvest Soho with the ‘edginess’ characterised by Soho’s history.
All participants must commit to the entire process, both meeting days, and be willing to discuss their developing proposals with peers (subject to intellectual copyright). Modest bursaries will be provided for out of pocket expenses.
Dates, times and location(s)
Friday 30 August, 10am to 8pm, Site Visit, Soho
AND
Friday 11 October, 3pm to 8pm, Ideas Presentation, Soho
Full proposals must be submitted by Friday 1 November.
Application procedure
A maximum of five mid-career artists (self-identified but as a guideline minimum of eight years professional experience) will be selected through application. Joshua Sofaer will participate as the sixth artist as well as facilitating the group. Application is by CV and covering letter, assessed by The Soho Society, Artsadmin and Live Art Development Agency. Please include weblinks where appropriate. (If your work is not adequately represented online you may submit up to five images as jpeg or pdf files and/or up to five minutes of video up to a combined total of five MB but please do not reproduce what is available online.) Please feel free to ask any questions by emailing info@joshuasofaer.com.
Applications must be received by Thursday 30 May, emailed to info@joshuasofaer.com (cc’d to diy@thisisliveart.co.uk)
The artist
Often with an irreverent use of humour, Joshua Sofaer plays with established forms of production, appropriating and reconfiguring the chat show, competition, lecture, or museum display. He acts as curator, producer or director of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, and publications. Joshua was a winner of the 2009 Bank of America CREATE Art Award, and the first Artist Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme in 2010/11.
For full details on all the projects please visit the Live Art Development Agency website.
Often with an irreverent use of humour, Joshua Sofaer plays with established forms of production, appropriating and reconfiguring the chat show, competition, lecture, or museum display. He acts as curator, producer or director of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, and publications. Joshua was a winner of the 2009 Bank of America CREATE Art Award, and the first Artist Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme in 2010/11.
For full details on all the projects please visit the Live Art Development Agency website.
Dickie Beau: Water shouldn't be water, DIY 9:2012
Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari: 'When I was a little girl/ when I was a little boy...' Who actually gives a shit?, DIY 9:2012
Stacy Makishi: Though Shalt Not Bore God: Live Art and Spirituality, DIY 9:2012
Zierle & Carter: At the edge of the land, of practice, and of knowing, DIY 9:2012
Andy Whall: Bouldering, creativity and a haptic approach to landscape, DIY 9:2012
Lynn Lu at Ania Bas DIY, photo by the artist
On the Horse Bridge by Karen Christopher
Sean Burn DIY, photo by Miki Z
Pop up your Ears 2 by Tania El Khoury
Sign on the front door of artist Sebastian Horsley (1962-2010) in Meard Street, Soho London.
