DIY 4:2007 - call for participants
Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists across the UK
DIY 4 offers artists working in Live Art the opportunity to take part in a unique series of short training and professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists. DIY 4 projects are aimed at both emergent and experienced practitioners. For the first time DIY 4 is taking place across the UK and we are offering 15 projects between May and August 2007 in collaboration with our partners.
The DIY 4 programmes take many forms from camping trips and walking tours, to workshops and group meetings. And between them cover areas of exploration from humour, through analysing the 'day job' to survival (just to name a few).
I've learnt more in these three days than in the past six months. ( Casper Below, DIY 2 participant)
DIY 4 projects summary (see below for summary descriptions)
East England
FrenchMottershead - Live Art Campers! - East
East Midlands
Sam Rose - The Performance of Intimacy
London
Daniel Gosling - Places we've never been
Lucille Power - From Life-Change to Dream-Space
Rajni Shah - What's missing?
Holly Darton - Reworking the 'day job'
Yara El-Sherbini - Are you havin' a laugh? London
Barbara Campbell - Writing for 1001 nights cast
South East
Orion Maxted and Al Paldrok - 'Survival'
Stacy Makishi - Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI, South East
West Midlands
Yara El-Sherbini - Are you havin' a laugh? Birmingham
North West
Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon - Unknown Terra-tories
FrenchMottershead - Live Art Campers! - North West
Yorkshire
Stacy Makishi - Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI, Yorkshire
Sohail Khan - Real and Unreal Presences
DIY 4 projects
Places we've never been
A series of three walks from the centre of London to destinations within the boundary of the M25 motorway with a follow-up discussion/showing.
Led by Daniel Gosling
Monday 21, Wednesday 23, and Friday 25 May and showing on 9 June 2007
London
What's missing - eating, talking, sharing challenge; regaining autonomy in performance training
Four mid to late career artists will spend four intensive days leading each other in training and questioning around body as site.
Led by Rajni Shah
Five sessions between May and August 2007 (see full description for dates)
London
From Life-Change to Dream-Space: encouraging the outlandish, nurturing the fanciful, discarding the limiting
A project with a focus on play and escape from everyday concerns for artists with practices and lives affected by health issues.
Led by Lucille Power
Four sessions between May and August 2007 (exact dates to be determined with participants)
London
'Survival'
A wilderness ritual - an invitation to step outside of one's social and artistic comfort zone and move with the flow of the city itself.
Led by Orion Maxted and Al Paldrok
Friday 15 June to Wednesday 20 June 2007
The Sussex Downs to central London
Are you havin' a laugh? Is 'e 'avin' a laugh? Birmingham
Over three days five artists will creatively explore humour as a strategy to deal critically with social and political issues. Participants will ask 'can humour open up engagement with art?' by creating their own home made joke.
Led by Yara El-Sherbini
Friday 22, Saturday 23, and Sunday 24 June 2007
West Midlands, Birmingham
Reworking the 'day job'
Ten artists will 'rework the day job' in a bid to find methods that allow the day job to motivate artistic practice.
Led by Holly Darton
Saturday 23 June, Saturday 7July,Saturday 21July, Saturday 11 August, and Saturday 18 August 2007 (dates to be confirmed with participants)
London
Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI, South East
Feeling more 'dead artist' than 'live artist'? Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI resurrrects genius, pulverises procrastination and reunites artists with their own luminous sauce.
Led by Stacy Makishi
Monday 2, Tuesady 3, Wednesday 4, Thursday 5, and Friday 6 July 2007
South East, Brighton (venue tbc)
Are you havin' a laugh? Is 'e 'avin' a laugh? London
Over three days five artists will creatively explore humour as a strategy to deal critically with social and political issues. Participants will ask 'can humour open up engagement with art?' by creating their own home made joke.
Led by Yara El-Sherbini
Monday 9, Tuesday 10, and Wednesday 11 July 2007
London
Unknown Terra-tories
Over three days 12 artists interrogate their own practice whilst walking in the mountains of the Lake District.
Led by Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon
Friday 13, Saturday 14, and Sunday 15 July 2007
North West, Lake District
Live Art Campers! - East
Come for a weekend away! Country walks, sitting around the fire, drinking and chatting til late, interspersed with 'fun' professional development sessions.
Led by FrenchMottershead
Friday 20, Saturday 21, and Sunday 22 July 2007
East England, Suffolk
Writing for 1001 nights cast
Over three days 12 writer / performers will write their way into an ongoing performance project with a readymade global audience.
Led by Barbara Campbell
Friday 20, Saturday 21, and Sunday 22 July 2007
London
The Performance of Intimacy
A four day professional development workshop exploring notions of intimacy and exchange within one to one performance.
Led by Sam Rose
Saturday 21 July, Saturday 28 July, Saturday 4 August, and Saturday 11 August 2007
East Midlands, Nottingham
Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI, Yorkshire
Feeling more 'dead artist' than 'live artist'? Creative Sauce Investigation - CSI resurrrects genius, pulverises procrastination and reunites artists with their own luminous sauce.
Led by Stacy Makishi
Monday 23, Tuesady 24, Wednesday 25, Thursday 26, and Friday 27 July 2007
Yorkshire, Leeds (venue tbc)
Live Art Campers! - North West
Come for a weekend away! Country walks, sitting around the fire, drinking and chatting til late, interspersed with 'fun' professional development sessions.
Led by FrenchMottershead
Friday 27, Saturday 28, and Sunday 29 July 2007
North West, Lancashire
Real and Unreal Presences; the exploration of belonging to in-between places
A three day intensive workshop exploring collaborative approaches to the generation of performance based site specific work and dialogue within a contemporary landscape.
Led by Sohail Khan
Monday 20, Tuesday 21, and Wednesday 22 August 2007
Yorkshire, Proper Job Theatre Company, Huddersfield
As well as the full details about each project there is also general information for all applicants and projects.
I believe 'DIY for artists' is a really productive form of training, as it is so specifically tailored to what I need. I've been on many training courses before but none that felt so relevant to me. To carry on the tailoring analogy - it's the difference between a bespoke suit and an off the peg outfit!! (Clare Thornton, DIY 1 participant)
DIY 4 is a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin, and New Work Network, and is being developed with Nuffield Theatre/LANWest, New Work Yorkshire, Fierce Festival, Colchester Arts Centre, The Basement Arts Production South East, and Dance4. DIY 4 is part of Joining the Dots, a Live Art Development Agency initiative supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Make sure you read the general information for all applicants and projects.
Our project partners for DIY are:
Artsadmin
New Work Network
New Work Yorkshire
Fierce Festival
The Basement Arts Production South East
Nuffield Theatre
Dance 4
Colchester Arts Centre
