If you have experience in facilitating workshops and engaging with community groups, we welcome your creative proposals. Let's come together to create a visionary journey through art and empower marginalized communities to shape their speculative futures. We look forward to your innovative ideas and collaborative spirit.
We particularly welcome applications from those who have lived experience of migration and asylum. We encourage artists from global majority backgrounds to apply.
The deadline for submitting your expression of interest is 9am on Monday 2 October.
What is Monumental Visions: Speculative Futures Through Art?
Collaborating with the Inini Initiative, Warwick Arts Centre are embarking on an impactful project that empowers migrants and refugees to explore Afrofuturism through art. Over six months, a series of five workshops will be led by an experienced artist utilising speculative futures to explore possible realities. These sessions will delve into Afrofuturism, drawing inspiration from both Inini members and the artists featured in the upcoming Phantom Sculpture Exhibition at the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre. The project will culminate in a display at Warwick Arts Centre showcasing the creations of participants, offering insights into their experiences and aspirations. Additionally, the project will offer participants the option to refine their designs through computer aided design (CAD) workshops, in partnership with the computer science department and guidance from Dr Emrah Atasoy, who’s research interests include speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia and critical dystopia is available to discuss concepts with the successful artist.
What will I be doing?
- Work with the members of Inini Initiative to deliver 5 workshops over 6 months exploring their interest in Afrofuturism and monuments through creative practice. This should include a session inspired by the Phantom Sculpture exhibition at the Mead gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.
- Support the members of Inini to take their knowledge and interest in their home cultures and channel that into their creative outputs through an Afrofuturist lens. This may be through thinking about public art/ sculpture or monuments and imagined futures.
- Work with the group to produce a display of the work made in the sessions, at Warwick Arts Centre. The display should share learning and outputs from the project with the campus community and wider public to be displayed from the first week of February.
Essential Information
- The groups availability for workshops is on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays.
- The Project will be delivered through 5 half day workshops between the end of October 2023 and the beginning of February 2024 in Coventry.
- You will need to be or be willing to register as Self-Employed, with a tax number.
- You will need to be or be willing to have Public Liability Insurance
Fees
There is a fee of £1,500 inclusive of VAT for the artist. This covers the artists’ research and preparation time, workshop delivery and making time for a maximum of5 workshops and three meetings. These times will be agreed in advance between the artist, Inini and Warwick Arts Centre.
Fees do not include materials. Materials will be purchased in consultation with the selected artist from the project budget.
How to apply
To express your interest in this role, please get in contact and tell us the following;
- A brief (5 mins max) video introducing yourself, your artistic practice and how you would approach the topic of speculative futures with Inini Initiative.
- Three links to previous work
- A breakdown of your availability over the next six months for workshops on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.
Send your applications to Becca Randle at [javascript protected email address]. Please email your application with the title Monumental Visions Artists Application and your initials in the subject header.
Selection Process
To enable the members of Inini to be part of the selection process, artists are requested to provide a brief (5 mins) video introducing yourself, your artistic practice and how you would approach the above project with Inini Initiative. If you are unable to provide a video, we will also accept a voice note. Experience of delivering creative workshops with marginalized community groups is essential.
Timeline
We will notify candidates of shortlisting by Thursday 5 October.
- We hope that the artists will begin work in October 23 through to mid-February 24, with the first workshop happening in October.
- Display of artworks to be installed at Warwick arts Centre in Early February 24
- Display celebration is provisionally set for 8th February 2024
