Image: driftingspace, Textually Active 3, Recipients of the 2014 PAC Home Curatorial Grant.

PAC Home Project Grant 2016

Plymouth Arts Centre are pleased to offer a Project Grant for a PAC Home member or group of members to plan and deliver a curated project during the 2016 Plymouth Art Weekender.

Aiming to support artist-led and curatorial practice and increase the number of opportunities for artists working in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall to present new work, PAC Home is offering a £400 cash grant alongside in-kind support for curators, artists or writers to develop an event or exhibition.

Applicants are invited to submit proposals for exhibitions or events which include the work of at least one artist member of PAC Home (either themselves or another artist/s) and take place in either one of the spaces for hire at Plymouth Arts Centre, at another venue in the city or in public space (there will be no room hire charge for use of PAC spaces).

The breakdown of the cash grant should be used as follows: £200 Research and development fee, £150 towards installation materials or other resources/equipment, £50 towards marketing.

In addition to the cash grant PAC staff are also offering advisory sessions for support with:

Applicants are encouraged to consider using the Project Grant as match funding for an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award and should consult with the a-n/AIR guidelines for artists’ fees when planning the budget for their project.

Proposals will be selected on the following:

The Project Grant recipient/s will be expected to complete a simple evaluation following the event/exhibition and will be asked to write a post for the Plymouth Arts Centre blog.

The PAC Home Project Grant has been made possible with the support of Plymouth Culture.

To Apply

Proposals must include the following and be sent as a single pdf or word doc attachment by email to pachome@plymouthartscinema.org before midday on Monday 18 April 2016 Extended deadline Monday 25 April 2016:

This opportunity is open to PAC Home members only. Artists, writers and curators can join PAC Home to become eligible for this opportunity. See PAC Home webpage for further information about PAC Home and how to join.

Key dates – dates adjusted due to Plymouth Arts Centre website problems

Mon 18 April: Deadline for proposals

Monday 25 April: Extended deadline for proposals

Friday 29 April: Selection confirmed

23 – 25 September: Event/exhibition should take place

Monday 31 October: Deadline for evaluation

Links

Plymouth Art Weekender: https://www.plymouthartweekender.com/

List of PAC Home members: https://www.plymouthartscinema.org/pachome

Spaces for hire at PAC: https://www.plymouthartscinema.org/information/venue-hire.html

Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/grants-arts/

a-n/AIR’s draft Exhibition Fee framework and Guidelines: https://www.payingartists.org.uk/2016/01/new-report-sets-out-draft-exhibition-fee-framework-for-artists-and-galleries/

a-n Guidance on fees and daily rates: https://static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guidance_on_fees_and_day_rates_for_visual_artists_2016.pdf

driftingspace report on PAC Home Curatorial grant 2014: https://blog.plymouthartscinema.org/2014/05/14/pac-home-curatorial-grant-driftingspace/

Plymouth Culture: https://www.plymouthculture.co.uk/

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Having exhibited in Plymouth Arts Centre almost a year ago it made sense that Bob & Roberta Smith’s Art Party would take place here as well. Uniquely the arts centre was the only venue for this year’s event in the Southwest. It started with a joyous afternoon of badge making, drawings of politicians and a barbecue, followed by a screening in the cinema of the Art Party movie, which attracted a good and enthusiastic audience. The wonderful docufiction gave a humorous account of last year’s art party at Scarborough and was able to draw people in with the surreal story of Gove’s transformation into an ardent art lover who finally seems to disappear in the North Sea. Surely Bob & Roberta Smith could not have predicted the film’s self-fulfilling prophecy. Gove, as we know, indeed ‘disappeared’. Only to make place however for secretary of education Nicky Morgan who seems to do her best to follow closely in his footsteps. Art Party 2015 should therefore really be in the making.

It inspired Vickie Fear, programme assistant at Plymouth Arts Centre, to organise a so-called ‘after after’ party in the PAC Home space, the centre’s network for artists, curators and writers who live in Plymouth and the wider region. Complete with soapbox, local artists were inspired to read out Bob and Roberta Smith’s recent letter to Nicky Morgan, which was happily done by amongst others Vickie Fear and Steven Paige. The evening was concluded with a good conversation about the current state of art education and created enough gusto to carry on art partying and writing letters. Art Makes Children Powerful as one of the badges made earlier that afternoon read. It makes them critical and therefore potentially ‘dangerous’ to some people, but that is exactly what is needed. Given today’s world maybe even more now than ever.

Edith Doove

Curator, writer and arts consultant at BUREAU DOOVE. Twitter: @edoove1

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The project started looking at Max Delbrück’s Principal of Limited Sloppiness. In science this doesn’t mean sloppy as in acting carelessly, but working loose enough so that new discoveries can emerge, and structured enough that the experimenter will notice what has happened.

So we have all found ways to apply this to our practices, posting our findings to our shared blog & convening at meetings to see how and if this fits together. There is a lot of serious playfulness to our methods, being generous toward loose associations and allowing failure to happen. For me, the entire project based itself on unexpected results, and how to act on them. The work we were making involved a lot of ‘let’s see what happens’, tacit knowledge in our practice that discovery was now tapping into.

Seeing what happens has all the elements of research to it but also elements of serendipity. Either you can’t help or are forced to connect the dots of your findings. We are at the stage now where the final layout is nearing completion. It feels right that it has taken time for us each to work through what and how we want it to be, and there is a narrative in the mosaic like structure of the zine to the role of chance, mistake & accident.

It has been a great few weeks connecting with other PAC Home members, Nick & Vickie. There will be a launch event of the zine at the end of summer, we hope you enjoy it!

Hannah Guy Susan Hamston Olivia Lorne Charlotte Price Eve Woodbridge

12th June A warm June evening and 5 PAC Homers arrive at the Phoenix.   We are met by Nick and taken down down down to the depths of the building to what some might call an office, some call a studio and some unfortunates might refer to as a broom cupboard!  But it is home to Nick and his Risograph, which resides in the corner…waiting.  Resembling an overlarge photocopier it has the capability to print colours reminiscent of the muted washed away colours of vintage textiles.

The theme is chance and mistake.  The Ground Rules (see Tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/researchandriso) are a mandate for experimentation and playful associations to be made between related or totally unrelated themes, ideas, images, objects, conversations and so on….

Climbing the stairs to the summer evening light…I wonder what it is that everyone else is wondering…?

Not long to wait before the Tumblr…(as repository of ideas, imagery and text) starts to fill with the seeds of research and sometimes whimsical momentary thought.  The collaboration of artists intrigues … as the individual strands of interpretation unravel.

25th June The matter for debate was to zine or not to zine.  As the project was collaborative it would have somewhat missed the point to work on individual pieces so a zine it was!

10th July Talking again we begin to see how each artist works to the structure of the project and how the starting points are wide and diverse.  There is a common inclusion of text which becomes a principal element in the piece.  There are references to chance in the playing with cards  rather than playing card games and the misinterpretation of language, the random deterioration of materials through natural phenomenon and more.

In between I scatter the dead leaves of a plant (gathered on a walk) onto the scanner and blow upon the pieces to make a composition over which I have lost control.  The resulting images bring detail to the fore and an observation on the fragility of the material.  The plant is a dock..in fact a Rumex Conglomeratus..what lucky chance ..conglomeratus in a conglomerate zine!!

This playful handling of the organic material brings a new dimension to the work which preoccupies me in the studio and hopefully the other participants have had an equally inspiring experience.

25th July What happens now… to make the individual page images zine ready..selecting colours, make decisions on sizes and papers…and what shall it be named…

PAC Home is a peer support network and programme for visual arts practitioners in Plymouth and the wider region. To find out how you can join, click here.

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