FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS FOR:
DEEP SPACE 2018 - Arts and Technology.
*Applications close Wednesday 26 September*
The SPACE Programme 2018, is open for applications from artists, technologists, VR developers, interactive designers and creators who are interested in exploring the intersection of arts and technology.
DEEP SPACE 2018 is a special edition of the programme which will focus on collaborative processes in arts and technology - zooming in on the potential of the human experience within this rapidly expanding field, which is revolutionising human connection, the imagination and how we express ourselves.
Since 2008, the award-winning cultural innovators The Performance Corporation have run the SPACE Programme; an international multi-disciplinary residency exploring the process of cross artform collaboration.
Over the past 10 years over 60 artists from all over the world have benefitted from the programme. Each year’s outcome has been vastly different due to the hugely varied alignments of artforms, artists and interrogations involved.
This year, we are using the experience and expertise gathered since the programme’s inception to focus more specifically on the intersection of arts and technology. There is an urgent need to understand exactly how collaborations in this field can be best achieved.
We are creating a residency space exclusively for innovative, entrepreneurial and dynamic creatives from both the arts and technology worlds, with a range of different expertise and work processes.
The takeaway will include new expertise and understanding of the different ecologies we are all part of, a deeper knowledge of different work practices as well as new connections. It will create for all participants stronger starting points from which to initiate and facilitate collaboration, innovation and new idea generation.
Have you got questions about: Interactive installations and experiences, storytelling in a digital world, immersive experiences, VR, AR and performance, AI, algorithms and self – expression, human beings/machine interface, identity, ownership and meaning?
If so this residency is for you.
We will provide:
- A space exclusively for innovative and dynamic creatives from the arts and technology worlds.
- A focus on how collaborations in this field can be best achieved.
- The opportunity to explore, play, make and experiment without the pressure to produce an outcome.
- The exclusive use of the amazing spaces of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, the artists residence at Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan, Ireland.
What's included:
We offer travel costs, full board, spaces to work, equipment and extraordinary people with whom to collaborate.
Residency Programme Dates:
18 - 25 November 2018
Location:
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre www.tyroneguthrie.ie
Applications:
We are now accepting applications via this form. The deadline for submission is 5pm, Wednesday 26th September, 2018. Successful applicants will be informed in early October.
SPACE is Ireland's longest running multi-disciplinary artist's residency. The SPACE Programme has also sown the seeds for numerous full-scale projects, as well as long-lasting collaborations between artists.
“In my experience, collaboration and time to experiment are the most precious things that creatives struggle to find. At the Performance Corporation, we’ve found that allowing ourselves time and space for ideas and experimentation ends up feeding into extraordinary experiences for our audiences. We now make this offer to apply our expertise in this area to facilitate and be part of collaboration and experimentation in the field of arts and technology for energised and risk-taking individuals.” says
Jo Mangan, Artistic Director of The Performance Corporation.
“It has been one of the most important experiences of my career.” - Ciaran Bagnall, Designer
“The Space Programme was a fantastic way to foster new relationships and broaden my creative network. It was a hugely inspiring, engaging and important ten days, and I know that it will have a great effect on my future work” - Liv O’Donoghue, Choreographer
“Intense, shattering and totally immersive: The SPACE Programme is a stimulating and practice-changing two weeks of collaboration.” - Oisín Byrne, Visual Artist
“A really thoughtful and humane design of the programme meant that I felt both respected and pushed as an artist.” - Cal Folgar, Composer
“SPACE Programme is one of those necessary things you need to do in your life, like climb a mountain, raise a child, do a solo performance, gamble your life’s savings into an artwork, study history and philosophy and travel the world! Seriously. I cannot recommend this highly enough.” - Daria Vacirca, Theatre Maker
The application process is now open, and submissions are welcome from individual Irish and International practitioners in all disciplines.
Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 25th September, 2018.
Full details and application form available at http://www.theperformancecorporation.com/the-space-programme-2018/
The SPACE Programme is presented by The Performance Corporation in association with Hanna Slattne, funded by The Arts Council.
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The Performance Corporation is an award-winning theatre and arts company, founded in 2002 by director Jo Mangan and playwright Tom Swift with a mission to create “theatrical adventures in surprising places”. The company has since garnered consistent critical acclaim and numerous awards for its work which includes a string of successful theatre and arts events in Ireland, the USA, Britain, Germany, Finland, Canada and Kenya. Their work includes site-specific theatre and opera that is tailor-made and written for a place or community; high-impact arts interventions in public spaces; audio tours for heritage locations and bespoke arts festivals like the award-winning BIG HOUSE Festival in Castletown House and Parklands, Co Kildare and the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin.
