An XR talent development residency exploring new visions, exchanges and experiences of heritage at Tatton Park.
Apply by: noon, Monday 31st January 2022
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) are excited to launch Impossible Perspectives Lab, a collaborative XR talent development residency supporting new visions, exchanges and experiences of heritage.
Developed in collaboration with Cheshire East Council as part of SHIFT and Tatton Park, and collaborating with experts, artists and technologists from SODA Labs (School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University) and HTC. The programme is inspired by Tatton Park’s landscape and the works of Italian painter Canaletto.
The Lab will welcome six artists to a week-long residential programme to develop their practice and proposals towards immersive artworks for Tatton Park.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
In Spring 2022 six artists will be invited to a residential lab exploring the visionary potential of XR (extended reality) technologies at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, UK.
This new collaboration will take inspiration from Tatton Park’s rich landscape, collection and connection to Canaletto, whose paintings are part of the National Trust’s collection in Tatton’s mansion. Canaletto’s paintings are renowned for their immersive qualities of imaginary architectural views (referred to as capricci), creating ‘impossible perspectives’ considered to be fledgling versions of current virtual reality.
The five-day site-specific programme will be an opportunity to spend time in the landscape and collections, bringing together emerging artists with curators and researchers from Tatton Park and the National Trust, alongside experts and technologists from HTC and SODA Labs.
The programme will provide workshops to experiment with emerging technologies, such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies (XR) and be a space to consider; How can new technologies of seeing allow us to question landscapes, histories and architecture in the present? How can augmented realities challenge and excite public experiences of collections? How can art change our perspectives on power, wealth and histories?
The residency will culminate in a series of proposals for new digital artworks, site-specific immersive experiences and XR public art under the banner of ‘Impossible Perspectives’. One, or a number of the proposals from participating artists, may be considered for inclusion in a proposed site-wide exhibition at Tatton Park.
They invite applications from early career UK based artists, collectives and/or studios, working across artistic disciplines (art, architecture, performance, new cinema, sonic art, research, writing and beyond). A cohort of six artists, studios or collectives will participate in the residential Lab.
The programme is intended to support and expand artists’ practice in scale and technologies of production, therefore applicants who haven’t already worked with AR, VR or wider XR technology based artforms are welcome to apply. They are particularly interested in inviting applications from artists with a practice that progressively addresses architecture, landscape, and archive.
What this opportunity includes:
– Fully-funded five day residential talent development programme
– Workshops and guest talks from leading industry figures and artists
– New technology demonstrations from leading technology partners
– Support and collaboration with Tatton Park and National Trust curators
– An opportunity to meet and connect with a new group of artists, technologists, producers and researchers
– Support from the Abandon Normal Devices Producer
– Travel to and from Tatton Park and other partner sites
– Private accommodation on-site at Tatton Park
– £500 honorarium per artist / collective
HOW TO APPLY
Visit: https://www.andfestival.org.uk/blog/open-call-impossible-perspectives-lab/
Impossible Perspectives Lab is a new UK artist residency programme for Tatton Park. Produced by Abandon Normal Devices, commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Cheshire East Council as part of SHIFT. Supported with public funds from Arts Council England.