The Jerwood Artangel Open
A new £1million commissioning initiative for the contemporary arts in association with Channel 4 and Arts Council England
Closing date for submissions 6 October 2006
For more information see www.thejerwoodartangelopen.org.uk
For further information and images please contact
Janette Scott on
Janette [at] artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400
or Gill Roth on
gillr [at] artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400.
The Jerwood Artangel Open is a major new £1million commissioning initiative that offers an unparalleled opportunity for emerging artists of all disciplines to propose ideas for exceptional projects in relation to specific sites across the UK.
The new £1 million fund will make three outstanding new commissions possible. Arts practitioners including visual artists, filmmakers, choreographers, composers, writers, theatre practitioners, applied artists and producers living anywhere in the UK are invited to imagine ambitious transformations of specific sites and situations – urban, suburban and rural.
Roanne Dods, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, says The magnitude and risk in this huge open competition is balanced by the sheer excitement of giving emerging artists a chance to create new work on a site, scale and level of imagination and aspiration that would otherwise not be possible for them. This is only possible by making the right intervention with the right group of people. This initiative is one of the largest projects that the Jerwood Charitable Foundation has ever embarked on and the reason we are able to take this journey is because of the special reputation of Artangel.
The winning commissions will be developed and produced by Artangel for presentation in the UK between 2008 and 2010. The central involvement of Channel 4 as a partner for The Jerwood Artangel Open will help broaden the reach and impact of the commissioned projects through specific programmes for broadcast television.
The Open is hoping to bring forward ideas as inspiring as of some of the most exceptional projects of the past decade in the UK. Projects as different as Jeremy Dellers re-enactment of The Battle of Orgreave in South Yorkshire or Derek Jarmans coastal garden in Dungeness, Rachel Whitereads cast of House in East London or Angus Farquhars son-et-lumiere on the Isle of Skye have transformed our expectations as to how and where some of the most compelling work of our time might be made and experienced. James Lingwood & Michael Morris, Co-Directors of Artangel believe there s a very rich seam of artistic potential in the UK today and were looking forward to being surprised by some compelling ideas.
The selection panel includes artists Jeremy Deller and Shirin Neshat, theatre director Emma Rice and Artangel Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris.
Closing date for submissions 6 October 2006
For more information see www.thejerwoodartangelopen.org.uk
For further information and images please contact Janette Scott on Janette@artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400 or Gill Roth on gillr@artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400.
