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Open Call for Applications: Material Futures Residencies

We are very excited to announce a new residency programme made possible with support from The Fenton Arts Trust.

Material Futures Residencies are designed to support UK-based visual artists working with or developing sustainable materials and processes as a key aspect of their work. Cove Park will award two fully-funded three-week residencies in December this year and would like to invite those eligible for this opportunity to apply by Monday 4 September 2023.

Further information, application guidelines, and a link to the online application form, are available here.

Image: Work in progress from the studio of Santtu Laine, recipient of the Sculpting Futures: Ecologies in the Making Residency, 2023.

 

Open Call for Applications: Magnetic 2 Residencies

Cove Park is delighted to once again be the Scottish residency taking part in the Magnetic Residencies programme. Now, in its second year, Magnetic is a Franco-UK network of artists’ residencies bringing together eight organisations to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in France and the UK.

In its pilot year, 2021/22, artists David Douard and Carla Adra were awarded Magnetic residencies at Cove Park.

About the Magnetic programme: 

  • Societal and environmental issues are at the heart of this programme, the residencies are situated, with the selected artists expected to work according to the focus of each residency, in resonance with each specific context –geographical or historical, societal, artistic, etc.
  • Artists receive a threshold monthly fee of £ 2100/2500 €
  • Each artist benefits from curatorial mentoring
  • Each residency is tailor-made in discussion with the institutions’ curatorial teams
  • Each residency provides the artist with networking opportunities throughout their stay
  • Artists are provided with accommodation and access to a work space.

The Magnetic 2 Residencies are organised on a tandem basis, pairing a French region with a British nation. Artists can only apply for the residency paired with their region or nation. Please consult the tandems below to find out which residency you are eligible for. To learn more about each host institution, please refer to the Magnetic Residencies page.

How to Apply
The call for applications is aimed at professional artists working in the field of visual arts who have already presented their work in several professional venues identified by contemporary art networks. For Magnetic Residencies in the UK, apply via this Fluxus Art Projects online form. For Magnetic Residencies in France, apply via this Fluxus Art Projects online form. All applications will be received by Fluxus Art Projects. All applications are due Tuesday 29 August 2023.  Each project submitted should generate a confirmation email. In addition to your Fluxus Art Projects application, please send a confirmation email to angela.blanc@institut-francais.org.uk and fluxusartp@gmail.com

Selection Process and Criteria
Each residency will have its own selection committee which will include:
  • The director of the residency
  • A qualified personality in the cultural field in the region of the residency
  • The director of the tandem residency
  • A member of the artistic committee of Fluxus Art Projects
  • The Institut français du Royaume-Uni
  • A representative from the UK funding partners

Selection criteria:

  • Artistic ambition within a professional practice rooted in contemporary Visual Arts
  • Relevance of the artist’s proposal within the residency’s context and focus
  • Motivation for an international residency at this point in the artist’s career
The shortlisted artists will be invited to an interview by Zoom during the last week of September.
For further information, please contact:  fluxusartp@gmail.com

Magnetic 2 is a programme of Fluxus Art Projects, which is supported by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Institut français, French Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales/Wales International, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council, and its private patrons and friends.

Image: Villa Arson, Nice provided by Fluxus Art Projects. 

Open Call for Applications: Magnetic Residencies

Magnetic: A New Franco-UK Network of Artists’ Residencies

Cove Park is delighted to be the Scottish residency taking part in a new network bringing together eight organisations to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in France and the UK. The venues in France are CAPC in Bordeaux, CRAC Occitanie in Sète, FRAC Grand Large in Dunkerque, and Villa Arson in Nice; they are joined in the UK by Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales, Cove Park, Flax Art Studios in Northern Ireland, and Grizedale Arts in England.

Applications are invited now from artists based in the UK for two or three-month residencies with one of the four French hosts. Full details about the programme and information about the host institutions here.

– Societal and environmental issues will be at its heart, with the selected artists expected to work according to the focus of each residency, in resonance with each specific context – geographical or historical, societal, artistic etc

– Artists will receive a minimum monthly fee of about £2,100 / 2 500 €

– Each artist will benefit from curatorial mentoring

– Each residency will be tailor-made in discussion with the institutions’ curatorial teams

– Each residency will provide the artist with networking opportunities throughout their stay

– Artists will be provided with accommodation and access to a workspace

HOW TO APPLY

This opportunity is open to visual artists who have been living and working in France or the UK for at least 3 years and have presented their work in at least one professional contemporary art institution. France-based candidates are invited to apply for UK residencies and UK- based candidates for France residencies.

Applications are due 30 May 2022. 

Candidates must submit a CV and a proposal outlining their motivations and intentions concerning the selected institution and its context. Please submit your application to Fluxus Art Projects. Each project submitted should generate a confirmation email. In addition to your Fluxus Art Projects application, please send a confirmation email to: angela.blanc@institut-francais.org.uk and fluxusartp@gmail.com
The selected artists will be announced in mid-July. Residencies will start in Autumn 2022.

Magnetic is a new collaboration conceived by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and the four UK arts funding agencies, produced under the umbrella of Fluxus Arts Projects, a charity founded and run by the Institut and supported by French and UK institutions and private donors. Over the past twelve years, Fluxus Art Projects has become a marker of notoriety for artists and non-profit organisations, supporting exhibitions and curatorial research in France and the United Kingdom.

Download: Open Call – MAGNETIC pdf

Image: CAPC, Bordeaux provided by Fluxus Art Projects 

This programme is supported by:

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Magnetic host institutions include:

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Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies

A Compendium of Climate Literacies

This is the digital archive of the experimental intensive/symposium ‘Turbulence / Emergence / Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies’ that took place at Cove Park between 4-7 November 2021. It brought together artists, writers, performers, academics, and activists from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss climate literacy.

In the Western tradition, language has been viewed as our most powerful tool for ordering and mastering the world around us. And yet more and more we are having to acknowledge our struggle in communicating the current environmental crisis and its unequally distributed effects.

How do language and action relate to each other in climate science, narrative and activism? How can we rethink our responses to classical and premodern legacies of environmental thinking to create new understandings for the present? How can we open ourselves to new kinds of environmental literacies that give space to the agency of the other-than-human and more-than-human worlds? How do we ensure that languages have an impact on global discourse, in a context where the privilege of climate speech is still dominated by the elite discourses of the Global North?

TURBULENCE, EMERGENCE and ENCHANTMENT, with their unsettling mix of positive and negative connotations, acted as guiding metaphors for the week.


The SoundCloud link below features: 

Introduction to Turbulence, Emergence, Enchantment by Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalisation.

 


TURBULENCE

The first chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Turbulent are climate, geo-politics, and living beings.’ The Turbulence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Climate Clarity/Confusion/Change by Derya Akkaynak (Oceanographer)

Video 2: Disaster, grief, apocalypse and empire in ancient ecological thinking by Jason König (Professor of Greek, Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies, University of St Andrews)

Video 3: After Ice by Kieran Baxter (Heritage Landscape Visualiser, University of Dundee)

Video 4: ‘Restore to us the necessary blizzards’ by Christina Alt (Lecturer in English, University of St. Andrews)

 

The Turbulence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Purple Haze by Deborah Dixon (Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow)

Track 2: Turbulence by Andreas Malm (Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University)

Track 3: Turbulence by Oana Aristide (Novelist)


EMERGENCE

The second chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Emergent is metamorphosis.’ The Emergence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes by Radha D’Souza (Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies, Westminster Law School)

Video 2: Worm: art and ecology by Angela YT Chan (Independent Researcher, Curator and Artist)

Video 3: Listening with Another Ear by Annalee Davis (Artist, Cultural Instigator, Writer)

Video 4: Oceans in Transformation by Territorial Agency (Artists)

Video 5: The Swamp – a theory, a school, a design by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Artists)

The Emergence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: At the far end of the cave of gold by Col Gordon  (Farmer & Podcaster) and Iain MacKinnon (Assistant Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Coventry University)

Track 2: World Making by Ashish Ghadiali (Film-maker and Activist)

Track 3: An Inland Promenade by Fernando García-Dory (Artist)

Track 4: Emergence by Karen Guthrie (Artist, Film-maker and Gardener)


ENCHANTMENT

The final chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Enchantment is possibility of participating in the creation of just and environmentally thriving futures.’ The Enchantment YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Small Acts of Hope and Lament by Janice Parker (Choreographer, Dance-maker)

Video 2: Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier (Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh)

Video 3: The Ecological Literacies of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder (Ikerbasque Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country)

Video 4: Marginalia by Katharine Earnshaw (Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter) & Laura Hopes (Artist, Researcher)

Video 5: Language, silence & storytelling: to survive in the marine environment by Zoé Le Voyer & Justine Daquin (curators and co-founders of collective Calypso36°21)

     

The Enchantment SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Epistemology of Caring by colectivo amasijo (Artists, Researchers, Food-makers)


Symposium participants also included: Tamara Colchester & Hermione Spriggs (Artists), Aka Niviâna (Poet, Activist), and Nada Tayeb (Architect, Food-maker).

This event signals a pivotal stage in the development of Cove Park. In its 21st year the organisation is moving beyond the boundaries of the traditional ‘time, space, freedom’ residency to include an enquiry-based model for facilitating cross-disciplinary work and collective intelligence around pressing global concerns. We are expanding the artforms and disciplines that are welcome to the residency, and enlarging its horizons towards other sectors, such as those of academic and scientific research, including the creative industries as a whole. On the occasion of COP26, Cove Park launched its first – and soon to become permanent – enquiry focussed on the environmental crisis and the radical change that our collective intelligence can affect in terms of climate action.

“Turbulence/ Emergence/ Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies” was organised in partnership with the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and Professor Jason König at the University of St Andrews, London-based curator Lucia PietroiustiTBA21-Academy and Markus Reymann, and the School of Classics and the College of Arts and Humanities (Environmental Humanities Research Strand) of University College Dublin and Dr. Giacomo Savani. The symposium was made possible by funding from Arts & Business Scotland: Culture & Business Fund. Thanks to the Green Art Lab Alliance for their support and friendship.

 

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2022

Cove Park is delighted to offer opportunities for artists, researchers and makers from across disciplines to take up a subsidised residency in early 2022. Residencies are offered to individuals and groups working in the arts and the creative industries, in the humanities and sciences.

We are pleased to advertise these opportunities now, in the hope that those interested have enough time to apply for funding to support their residency. Please see this introductory list on our website for guidance as to where you might apply for financial support. Those who are employed might also consider a residency as part of their CPD, and approach their employer for funding.

Dates and Duration
In January & February 2022, residencies are for 6 or 13 nights, beginning on a Monday, ending on a Sunday. Applicants should identify their preferred duration residency dates from the following list:

    • Mon 10th – Sun 16th Jan
    • Mon 17th – Sun 23rd Jan
    • Mon 31st – Sun 6th Feb
    • Mon 7th – Sun 13th Feb
    • Mon 14th – Sun 20th Feb
    • Mon 21st – Sun 27th Feb
    • Mon 28th Feb – Sun 6th Mar

COVID-19
We reopened following the COVID-19 crisis and have been operating successfully since May 2021, in accordance with the latest Scottish government restrictions. Enhanced hygiene, regular testing and mask-wearing measures are in place to mitigate the risks of bringing COVID-19 to the site. You can read more about these measures here.

Please read the full guidelines – which include details of how to apply – here: SUBSIDISED WINTER 21-22 final.
The deadline is 22 November 2021.

Image by Tracey Bloxham / Inside Story Photography

 

Virtual Studio & Site Tour with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club

On 25th May at 12pm, Cove Park will give a virtual studio tour and interview with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club Director Medeia Cohan. The tour will take in Cove Park’s site, its buildings and facilities and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A between CEC’s membership and Cove Park’s CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Partnerships Manager Catrin Kemp. Learn more and sign up here:

https://creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk/event/cove-park-artists-residency-centre-visit/

About the Creative Entrepreneurs Club:
CEC is a home for like-spirited creative people looking to access powerful support, network with peers and develop new skills. Our members determine what we offer and we respond to the challenges that they tell us they’re facing by developing relevant content and training to support them.

We welcome creative entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses, from those just starting out to those looking to exit.

Membership is free for a limited time at creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk

Winter & Spring 2021 Independently-Funded Residencies

In January, February & March 2021 Cove Park will run a series of subsidised Independently-Funded residencies. These winter and spring residencies offer artists of all disciplines the chance to step away from their domestic sphere and spend time dedicated to their work and practice on Cove Park’s outstanding 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast.

The call out is aimed at artists of all disciplines, living and working in the UK. Due to the current circumstances relating to COVID-19, these residencies will begin on certain Mondays throughout January – March 2021.

Please read the Guidelines in full before applying.

The deadline for applications has been extended to 7th Dec 2020.

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Funded Residencies 2021 – Open Call Announced

We are pleased to announce details of the open call for applications to Cove Park’s funded residency programmes in 2021. This call is open to makers and designers, writers, poets, translators, filmmakers and visual artists and each fully funded residency supports research, experimentation and the development of new work within an inspiring context. Application Guidelines for each individual programme are available here.

Please contact the Programme Producers directly if you require any further information (contact details provided in the Application Guidelines). We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Image: Raisa Kabir, Cove Park Craft & Design resident, 2019 (photography, Alan Dimmick)

Alumni Page Launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Alumni page on Cove Park’s website. This information and resource page highlights the ways in which we can continue to support and work with artists following their initial residencies.

Cove Park has hosted over 2,000 artists since its launch in 2000, taking part in Craft & Design, Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation, Performing Arts and Visual Arts residencies. The success of this programme is due to our relationship with so many wonderful artists and we aim to keep in touch with as many of our former residents as possible. The principle of creating new opportunities for our alumni is very important to us and we will continue to update this page with news and projects of relevance to all our artists.

Image, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Henry Moore Fellowship Residency, 2008 (photography, Ruth Clark)

SaF05 Screens at Tate Modern

Charlotte Prodger’s acclaimed 2019 work SaF05 will screen at Tate Modern on 11 March. This work – commissioned by Scotland + Venice and presented at the 2019 Venice Biennale in a solo exhibition curated by Linsey Young with Cove Park – is the third in a trilogy of films and the screening at Tate will be the first time Stoneymollan Trail (2015), BRIDGIT (2016) and SaF05 have been shown together. The event will be introduced by Erika Balsom and accompanied by an essay about the work by artist Helen Marten. Find out more and book tickets here.