After School – Collective Strategies Open call
The workshops as part of After School – Collective Strategies are designed for early stage practitioners to get together under a supportive network and explore collective ways of working. Three workshops are led by and for a wide range of practitioners, from photographers, artists who work in between photography and other media, to curators, researchers and writers who are interested in photography and its expanded forms.
18 people will be selected through an open call to participate in the workshops and be part of the public group presentation in London this autumn. In three groups of six, they will be working with one of Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Hal Silver and Hemera Collective over three sessions. These three workshop groups will run in parallel to develop their output over the afternoons of 18 May, 8 June and 15 June 2019, with the talks being on the mornings of the same days.
We are asking applicants to present up to two projects (completed or work in progress). The projects can be carried out in a variety of forms, e.g. photographic work, community projects, collective experiment, writing pieces, curating, broadcasting, and so on, as long as they demonstrate your interests and capabilities in your practice. We accept applications from individuals – undergraduate students in their final year, postgraduate students, and those within five years of graduation, with a practice that’s relevant to photography, moving image or other forms of image making, and can commit to participating in the full programme. We also welcome applicants from alternative forms of education who are within five years of establishing their artistic practice.There is a submission fee of £8 for the open call to cover running costs. All talks and workshops are free for the selected participants. The programme will also cover the organisational cost of the public group presentation. The participants are responsible for the cost associated with the production the work.
After School – Collective Strategies is a public programme consisting of a series of talks and workshops, running from May to June 2019, and culminating in a group presentation in the autumn. A collaborative effort between pic.london and London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), the programme explores collective ways of working both conceptually and in action, and considers them as strategies that can be helpful, especially for early stage artists who often struggle in the extremely challenging period after graduating.
Deadline: April 14th 2019. Selected applicants will be notified by email by April 30th.
Location: London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SB London, United Kingdom
For info: contact hello@piclondon.org / piclondon.org
Image: Alejandra Carles-Tolra, from the series Where We Belong series, 2017