Applications are now closed
DIY 14 is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run by artists for artists.
“The diverse workshop exercises placed me out of my comfort zone and was just what I was looking for to challenge myself in to new ways of thinking and making.” – Participant in Eloise Fornieles' You're An Animal!, DIY 13.
“It was like an ideal version of what I imagined it was going to be. As though if someone told you a storybook version of it, then that would be it.” – Participant in James Stenhouse's Survival Skills for Artists, DIY 13.
25 DIY projects and 3 DIY+ projects for both emergent and experienced practitioners will take place across the UK between July and November. Together, these opportunities represent a huge variety of subjects and approaches from across Live Art including (but not limited to) audaciousness, sensory perception, the penetrated male, embodied Islam, neurodiversity, ecocentric performance-making, displacement, sadomasochism, sound and blackness, the queering of sport, definitions of diversity, underwater living, sex, grief, ageing, and a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Dracula.
DIY+ is a new initiative that has been created to facilitate more ambitious DIY projects than we have previously been able to support. These 3 projects represent a step up from our regular DIY programme, either in terms of scale and scope, materials and resources, and/or which offer participant artists an increased or deeper level of engagement. DIY+ is supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
The DIY lead artists self determine and run their own projects, which includes defining the participants’ application and selection process. If you have any questions about a DIY project, please follow the ‘contact’ link on each DIY project page.
The closing date for most applications is 19 June 2017 (for Martin O'Brien's DIY+ it is 2 June) and you may apply to as many as you wish. All DIY and DIY+ projects are free to participate in.
(All projects are NOW CLOSED.)
Applications are now closed.
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Professional development projects by artists for artists across the UK
It’s about sex. Sex as education. Sex re-education.
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Read moreA human flea circus 3 day residency with the StenchWench
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Read moreA two day research and sharing retreat investigating definitions of ‘diversity’
Read moreReimagining the neurodiverse performance space
Read moreLet’s explore together the potential for connection and humanity by creating new rituals to deal with death
Read morea creative enema of filthy writing, subversive image making and public interventions ‘via the back door’
Read moreA traditional seaside weekender for ageing artists with a punk/anarchic ethos
Read moreDeveloping insights on law through performance and theatre practice
Read moreQueer people exploring our queer bodies by chatting, kicking footballs, gentle boxing stuff, rapping, running, dancing…
Read moreAn acoustic investigation of the Suffolk coast for composers and sonic artists
Read moreIdentity is a complex thing. Difference is beautiful.
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Read moreA dance workshop series, curated club night, open laboratory, and curated self-care night to dance our dreams into reality
Read moreFive days making your own skin-on-frame coracle somewhere outside in Northumbria and thinking about things quite a bit
Read moreA workshop for artists working with sound and performance using the black diaspora as their centre of navigation
Read moreA 4-day retreat exploring eco-centric approaches to performance making
Read moreA reckless retreat exploring the possibilities of audaciousness culminating in a strictly one-off performance
Read moreA curious, performative invitation towards embodied practices of the Islamic faith
Read moreEntangling personal stories of leaving behind and moving ahead
Read moreA symposium, on land and in water, for adapting to life on an inundated planet
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Read moreA reckless retreat exploring the possibilities of audaciousness culminating in a strictly one-off performance
Read moreDestroy and rebuild the world of performance and make it weirder and awkwarder and wonderfuler, just like you
Read morea mutual response group for giving and getting feedback
Read more“Ugh, that sounds weird: do it more!”
Read moreA self-reflective workshop on the play of narcissism in creativity
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