Hello,
With apologies for cross-posting, we are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the 2024 Birth Rites Collection Summer School, and a new series of participatory art commissions.
The BRC Summer School is a unique program of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. Four intensive days will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks. The course is led by artist & BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan.
This year’s Summer School will take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, from Monday 1st - Thursday 4th July.
We are also offering a reduced rate for joining the Summer School online, with access to live and recorded lectures, films, and workshops from anywhere in the world.
Workshops include reflecting on the themes of aesthetics, ethics, politics and the visual discourses of birth through visual and written materials, with the emphasis on learning how to stage and document performances. Through lectures by leading artists in the field, we will introduce different perspectives to initiate in-depth discussions.
2024 Speakers include: Helen Knowles, Dr. Leni Dothan, Barbara Rosenthal, Puck Verkade, Ana Casas Broda, Sarah Maple, Dyana Gravina and Dr. Hannah Ballou.
Prices start from £400 in-person. Find out more and book your place: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school
New Artist Commission: Tommy’s National Centre for Preterm Birth Research
Birth Rites Collection has partnered with the newly launched Tommy’s National Centre for Preterm Birth Research and Imperial College London to run a series of participatory art commissions over the next 3-5 years, that will explore important ideas connected with preterm birth.
The projects and resulting works will help to expand on the ground-breaking research that the team at Tommy’s and the five collaborating universities are carrying out.
If you are an artist / artist collective and are interested in getting involved in this project, please fill out a preliminary expression of interest.
A budget of £5400 is available for the first commission. Ten artists will be selected to develop their proposals from the initial expression of interest and a small fee will be paid for this.
We are keen to hear from artists of black and minority ethnic background, disabled, LGBTQ and female artists. We will be shortlisting 10 artists / artist collectives to develop their ideas into fully fledged proposals for new works.
Application deadline 30th April 2024. Submit an expression of interest: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/commissions
Birth Rites is a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. The first of its kind in the world. Birth Rites Collection aims to facilitate the production of new cutting edge works by artists who might not normally address the subject because of its taboo status within contemporary art practice, to support the work of artists whose work already engages with issues on this subject and to acquire relevant existing works to expand the collection.
The collection is currently housed at the University of Kent and comprises photography, sculpture, painting, artist books, print, wallpaper, drawing, new media and film.
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