Deadline: 11-Sep-22
The British Council is accepting application for Early to Mid-Career Visual Arts Curators from the UK and five early to mid-career visual arts curators from Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa or Zimbabwe whose practices are collaborative and draw from personal experience or interpretation of identity, gender, and race politics.
The programme promotes cross-cultural and cross-border exchange and collaboration by providing opportunities for curators to connect, collaborate and build meaningful partnerships with colleagues across the globe and to nurture future engagement with British Council arts programmes and partners.
Benefits
- The delegation is fully funded and includes:
- A programme of networking, events and Pavilion visits
- Travel to and from airport
- Accommodation
- A daily stipend of £50 for meals/local travel
- Access budget to support atypical childcare needs, D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent delegate needs
Eligibility Criteria
- The delegation is for early to mid-career visual arts curators whose practices are collaborative and draw from personal experience or interpretation of identity, gender, and race politics.
- They are interested in applications from those who want to grow their curatorial practice in line with the themes of the delegation, who wish to expand their international networks amongst arts practitioners with similar interests and can demonstrate an interest to work collaboratively with the African and UK visual arts sectors. They may have a specific outcome they are hoping to achieve from this delegation, such as exhibition research, networking, or knowledge and skills building.
- They recognise that the term ‘early to mid-career curator’ has many definitions and takes many forms. For the purposes of this delegation, they mean the following:
- If you are early career, you will have at least one of the following:
- A relevant degree or relevant experience (instead of formal education) working in the arts sector either within an arts organisation or independently
- Experience working with artists on a commission, production, or programme as part of a wider exhibition or festival
- Contributed to an exhibition, public programme or arts publication through research or organisation and administrative support
- If you are mid-career, you will have at least one of the following:
- Worked as a visual arts curator either within an arts organisation or independently
- Led on the curation of at least one high-profile exhibition that has received significant press coverage
- Undertook research/critical study on one of the themes of the delegation either for exhibition development or publication
- If you are early career, you will have at least one of the following:
- Applicants do not have to hold a relevant degree or have had formal education, but they must:
- Be over 18 years old to apply
- Be based in the UK, but do not need to be a national of the UK OR
- Be based in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, or Zimbabwe but do not need to be a national of these countries
- Not be in full or part-time formal education
- Be an early to mid-career curator as defined using the definitions under
- The programme will be delivered in English
- This programme is not for artists
- They will prioritise applications made by those who have not received support from British Council in the last two years
For more information, visit http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/news/all-news/call-for-applications-for-early-to-mid-career-visual-arts-curators-venice-biennale-delegation-november-2022/page/1