Arts and Community: The Liberties Festival – Artists Commission

Last Updated on Friday, 02 September 2011 02:11

Background to the Brief

The Liberties Festival is a week long celebration of the Liberties neighbourhood in Dublin 8. It is a project of SICCDA (South Inner City Development Association).

For the 41st Liberties Festival, June 12th to June 19th, The Liberties Festival are working with Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts in social and community contexts to provide a commission to an emerging artist(s) to work collaboratively with local traders to realise a contemporary collaborative arts project that will form part of this years festival programme.

The Commission

The Commission for a collaborative arts project realised with local traders in the Liberties area should focus on delivering a high quality collaborative project that meaningfully engages with local traders and reinforces a sense of place.

The commission is aimed at emerging artist(s), who have been out of college for no more than 5 years.

Artists are free to propose a multi-disciplinary team to undertake the project. The fee, to include all materials, is € 2,500 (incl of VAT).

The commission will be managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts in social and community contexts. The selected artist(s) will receive mentoring and advisory support throughout the process from Create.

Application Process

Create recommend that the proposal is in the form of a written application, up to a maximum of 4 sides of A4, supported by additional information detailing work history and examples of professional collaborative practice in social and community contexts.

Applicants' principal residence should be in Ireland.

The application should detail proposed artform(s) and outcome(s) of the Project and provide a Project Plan that identifies the following:
- research phase to inform how the project will be progressed that ensures meaningful collaboration with local traders
- processes and approaches to working collaboratively with local traders
- intercultural dimension and how this will be achieved
- timeframe with clear progress goals to deliver the Project

Applications will be assessed under the following criteria:

Artistic merit
Quality of proposed collaboration with local traders in the Liberties
Feasibility

Assessment will be made by a panel. The panel will consist of representatives from SICCDA and Create.

Interested artists are requested to apply by post by 5pm, Monday April 4th, 2011. Please address applications: Liberties – Artist Commission, Create, 10-11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8.

Please note email applications are not accepted – applications must be received as hard copy.