We are pleased to announce a call for the Women’s Art Library and Feminist Review Bursary for 2015, please distribute to those who may be interested. Full information below and in attachment

24.08.2015

Kill the archivist! 

The Women’s Art Library and Feminist Review £1,000 research bursary 2015

 

This year’s Living with Make: Art in the archive bursary is presented in association with The Showroom.

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2015

Bursary period: January to March 2016

Public launch at The Showroom: September 2016

 

Women’s Art Library and Feminist Review are inviting artists and curators to propose an original engagement with the call to “Kill the archivist!” as a provocation to explore the possibilities of unravelling the mechanism of the archive. This is a call for projects that propose the archive not as an authority but as an unregulated knowledge, or a space of different temporalities. The call is open to all including students.

The selected project will be presented in the Open Space pages of a forthcoming issue of Feminist Review and feature in a public launch event in association with The Showroom.

 

The £1,000 bursary will support the successful applicant’s research time in the collection based at Goldsmiths’ New Cross campus.

 

The Women’s Art Library/Make http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/make

is a collection of art documentation that began as a collective archive by UK-based women artists in the late 1970s. It has since developed into a research resource featuring a wide range of media that include emerging artists active internationally as well as historical archives of individuals and organisations. The WAL collection is particularly rich in images and features a unique slide collection, poster collection, videos and photographs as well as audiotapes and ephemera.

 

Feminist Review http://www.feminist-review.com/

provides an accessible site for creative debate in the form of writing and/or visual works that relate to and expand issues in gender scholarship.

 

The Showroom http://www.theshowroom.org/

is a space for contemporary art that is focused on a collaborative and process-driven approach to production, be that artwork, exhibitions, discussions, publications, knowledge and relationships.

 

The panel consisting of representatives from Feminist Review, Goldsmiths and the Showroom would look for proposals that engage the creative as well as academic sector. A proposal for development and a CV would be required, including good visual documentation if relevant.

 

For more information contact Althea Greenan on 020 7717 2995, email [log in to unmask] or write to

Special Collections, Library, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.