Social Convention is seeking expressions of interest from performance practitioners to participate in the launch of their LAB programme – a series of collaborative, co-created, public-facing digital residencies.
This can include musicians/composers, dancers/choreographers, theatremakers, filmmakers, performance artists, aesthetically-led game designers, or those working in multi-disciplinary pathways.
Each LAB residency will include working collaboratively with Executive Producer Natalie Hall to somehow explore co-creation with digital audiences (through data, crowd-sourced input, live engagement, or other) and creating epic or intimate shared digital experiences.
They are open to the shape that projects will take and are open to facilitating collaborations with other artists as a part of the scope of work.
While they are not specifically seeking artists whose work is primarily in a digital medium, some level of tech / digital familiarity will be helpful.
Each digital residency will be undertaken remotely, and will last 2-6 weeks depending on the scope of the project or experiment as developed with Social Convention’s co-founders, producers Natalie Hall and Cimeon Ellerton-Kay.
As a company dedicated to queering cultural spaces, they are looking for a diverse range of practitioners and are particularly interested in hearing from women/nonbinary, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), LGBTQ+, and d/Deaf and Disabled artists.
They will be excited by submissions that:
- Share their artistic interests in rawness, joy, catharsis, intimacy, and shared experience
- Are eager to engage frequently with digital audiences in discussion and work creation
- Are deeply curious about working in the digital sphere and leaning into the specific structures, restrictions, and opportunities that it holds
They are currently fundraising to launch the LAB programme. Pending funding, each LAB residency will run for 2-6 weeks depending on the project, from £500 – £1500 (roughly £250 a week, part time in a schedule to be mutually agreed).
They will be selecting 2-4 artists for the first round of LAB programming.
Please visit https://www.socialconvention.org/blog-1 for more information and to apply. The deadline for applications is May 18, 2020.
Part time Paid (£15k-20k pro rata)
Contact: Natalie Hall natalie@socialconvention.org