Call out to artists – Window’s programme, Wirksworth Festival 2011
9-25 September 2011
Wirksworth is home to Wirksworth Festival, which over the past two years has concentrated on developing its contemporary visual arts programme, and aspires to become a leading rural Festival of contemporary art in the UK, something we are increasingly being recognised as:
“The annual Wirksworth Festival seems to be establishing itself as far more creatively worthy that a local rural art fair, with exhibitions and installations stretching through the town’s shops, gardens, halls and surrounding rolling landscapes.”
Robert Clark, Guardian Guide, September 2009
We are interested in work that critically interrogates the situation that is Wirksworth: ‘situation’, a set of conditions in time and place - a convergence of site, non-site, place, non-place, locality, public space, context and time.
We are interested in psychogeography, Situationist strategies, the dérive, in destabilising preconceptions of site and meaning, in intervention, in discovery, surprise, awe and humour, in cartography, maps and charts, in interactivity, and in friction rather than rapprochement.
The callout is to artists and studio groups for our Windows programme. A fee of £1000 is available for creating work which will animate the town during the festival by making work responding to the festival's concerns to be shown in around 10 shop windows. Interested groups should send their brief proposal, an outline of how they would approach the project, and details of artists who might participate, by Monday 11 July to info@davidgilbert.org.uk.
David Gilbert
T: 0779 152 8277
E: info@davidgilbert.org.uk
W: www.davidgilbert.org.uk | www.re-place.co.uk | www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk
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