Deadline: 15-Jan-23
Greenpeace UK is inviting artists and activists to devise creative interventions that confront the role of industrial food in the climate crisis.
They are looking for work that sits at the intersection of art and activism to foster imaginative strategies that create change, and interventions in places of public, political and corporate structural power.
Three projects will be supported with grants of £10,000, a separate production budget, and a box of ash from burnt Amazon rainforest to incorporate into the project.
Recognising the injustices built into the industrial food system, this project prioritises the perspectives of artists and activists who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, people of colour and/or working class.
They welcome people identifying as disabled and neurodivergent, and will support access needs wherever possible.
Funding Information
- 3 x £10,000 grants are available to cover artists’ and activists’ time and fees. Please note the fee is £10,000 whether you are applying as an individual or collective.
- A total production budget of up to £45,000 is available for distribution across the three ideas, depending on individual project requirements.
Materials
- The three projects will be given an archive box of ash from burnt Amazon rainforest in Brazil (approximately 1 cubic foot). Artists and activists may decide how the ash is incorporated. If not in the final work, it must be demonstrably embedded in the creative process.
Other Support
- Mentoring and strategic and practical support to develop proposals into impactful direction actions
- Artistic and curatorial guidance to develop proposals into impactful artworks, creative actions and interventions
- Legal advice and risk assessment support, tailored to lived experience
- Access to production, collaborative logistical expertise, equipment and specific training where possible
- Access to collaborations with specialist activist teams (boat and climb) will be available for one of the projects if appropriate
- Documentation and archival quality prints of the work
- A bespoke Greenpeace nonviolent direct action (NVDA) training will be a mandatory part of the development process
What are they looking to support?
- Ideas should confront the damaging nature of the industrial meat and dairy system in the UK by:
- Exposing harms – how corporations, such as major food brands or agribusiness, or the UK government, are complicit in the crises that industrial meat and dairy exacerbate for people, climate and nature, and/or
- Promoting solutions – making links between industrial meat and dairy reduction and climate and social justice.
- They are looking to support ideas that are:
- Focused, simple and targeted to achieve maximum impact
- Conceptually compelling, imaginative, bold and ambitious
- Site-specific and take place in public, corporate or political spaces perhaps without permission
- Subversive and find unconventional ways to confront corporate actors
- Action focused and can be delivered collaboratively with Greenpeace specialists, including climbing and/or boat teams
- Artists and activists can deliver interventions independently, collaborate on actions design with Greenpeace specialists, or make work anonymously that Greenpeace delivers, without personally attending the site of intervention – and this doesn’t need to be decided before applying.
- They are interested in creative approaches working across any artistic or creative medium for example (but not limited to) installations, interventions, public art, public sculpture, live art, performance, etc. We are particularly interested in creative and collaborative approaches that have been seen less often.
Eligibility Criteria
- The open call opportunity is open to individuals, collectives and groups who:
- Self-identify as Black, Indigenous, people of colour, and/or working-class, or are from a low socioeconomic background, in recognition that there are inequities built into the industrial food system
- Have an established art and/or activist practice, and experience of creating, producing and or delivering interventions
- Are over 18+
- Currently living in the UK
- Have access to a UK bank account
- The open call aims to attract creative submissions from:
- Artists who are interested in exploring direct action
- Activists who have an artistic or creative element to their work
- In recognition that there are inequities built into the industrial food system, this project prioritises the perspectives of artists and activists who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, people of colour and/or working class.
- They welcome people identifying as disabled and neurodivergent.
Project Requirements
- All projects must take place in the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
- Participants must be available for a one-day collaborative Bad Taste workshop on 9 February 2023. Participants will be paid, and travel expenses will be reimbursed.
- Participants must be willing to participate in Greenpeace’s nonviolent direct action training (one day) during the project development period, after grants have been awarded.
- Participants should be comfortable with collaborative working and have an open and positive approach to shared learning.
- Please note the project will not be able to support:
- Commercial advertising and or, creative agencies
- NGOs, or any voluntourism or initiatives that benefit the organiser(s) more than the communities they seek to serve
- Greenpeace employees, or freelancers, who have worked with Greenpeace between 2019-2022.
For more information, visit Greenpeace UK.