Artschain are seeking new video submissions by artists for their YouTube channel
The aims of the channel are:
– To give audiences a real sense of the breadth, depth, reach and impact of the work of the
participatory arts sector
– To tell stories of people in a huge diverse variety of settings and places where this impact
has been experienced by participants, communities (of geography and interest) and places
– To act as a ‘living archive’ of the work over a period of time
– To function as an advocacy tool and support the campaign for support for the sector and the
freelancers and organisations who work in the sector. This will give us an existing pool of
content to draw upon to help tell stories
– To enable viewers to understand the kinds of processes, values and methodologies
underpinning this work
Artschain are inviting you to send illustrative examples of videos you have produced that meet these aims. Simon Ruding (Director, TiPP) has kindly offered to manage and curate the channel, you can send your videos to Simon at ArtsChain@tipp.org.uk
Content
They are looking for videos about work which reflects:
– A diversity of participants – age, gender, ethnicity, disability.
– Different geographies and types of places (rural, villages, towns, cities, larger metropolitan
areas, suburbs, coastal communities, etc)
– A variety of settings (prisons, youthclubs, community centres, parks and outdoor spaces,
summer camps, hospitals, care settings, schools, sheltered accommodation, people’s own
homes)
– A mix of artforms ((including multi-disciplinary) and rich mix of different cultural forms
(including those reflecting everyday creativity).
– Diverse impacts on people and their places/communities.
The videos should be fairly recent (made within the last three years) to be current. They would like to receive examples of practice from the current lockdown if you have them, but it’s also important to feature practices taking place before Covid-19 struck!
Technical guidance
Videos should be up to five minutes max but longer videos which tell an important story can be submitted too. Videos need to be sent via WeTransfer or Vimeo and should be of viewable quality.
Submission process
Please submit no more than two videos which you feel represent your work, tell stories and show
why this sector is really important.
The videos should relate to work delivered in the last three years. All submitted videos should be accompanied by a short description of your work as an individual/organisation with a weblink and a short explanatory text on the project(s) featured in each video submitted.
This should be no more than 100 words in total and needs to contextualise what is posted and says something about the group, work, etc. Please also tell them when the video dates back to.
They would also ask you to confirm in the email with their submission that they have permission to publish the video from participants and individuals featured.
Can you also confirm you have a safeguarding policy and have observed your own safeguarding guidelines and practices in the activity and production of the video. The deadline for submissions is 23 August.
Editorial
While they will try to include as many videos as they can, they cannot guarantee that they will use every
video submitted.
It will be important for them to get the right mix of stories and ensure that videos are of reasonable quality. They therefore reserve the right not to include a particular video.
See their website here.