Situate Art in Festivals announced arts lab artists for 2018

THE PROGRAM: SITUATE Art in Festivals provides an exciting opportunity for early career artists and creative practitioners to push boundaries, take creative risks and develop concepts that respond to the unique potential of festival environments. Artists are selected via an open call to participate in an intensive interdisciplinary residency. The program is managed by Salamanca Arts Centre and based not only in Hobart but other locations across Tasmania.

We have thirteen National and International Partner Festivals who work with us on a two-year cycle to develop and present Situate artists’ work.

THE LAB: The SITUATE Arts Lab is an immersive and intensive, two-week program of provocation and mentoring designed to stimulate ideas and extend artists’ knowledge. Participants will be invited to exchange ideas, work collaboratively and contribute their experience, toward the development of their own artistic practice and proposals for works for Festivals.

During the Arts Lab artists will have the opportunity to work with creative practitioners experienced in developing experimental, large-scale, site-specific or public-participatory artworks. Acting as PROVOCATEURS, senior practitioners come from a wide variety of backgrounds, offering a range of creative and technical skills, to guide participants through a process of creative development, offering feedback on ideas as they emerge. Artists will be encouraged to think in new ways about their own artistic scope, the presentation of art for the festival context and the logistics involved in scaling up for complex and ambitious projects.

The 2018 Arts Lab will be held at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart and at Queenstown Tasmania alongside The Unconformity, The dates for the Arts Lab are 12th – 26th October 2018.

QUOTE: Emma Porteus, SITUATE Executive Producer:

“We were incredibly impressed with the quality of the applications overall. Experimental arts practice in Australia plays an important part in our cultural landscape, it pushes the boundaries of form and engages audiences in new and exciting ways. The selection panel had the incredibly hard task of selecting 16 applicants from an unprecedented number of applications. We are all excited to see what the 2018 Arts Lab brings as artists invest in developing their practice alongside creating work for festivals both nationally and internationally.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The SITUATE Art Lab Artists 2018 that have been selected:

Theia Connell (TAS)
Steven Cybulka (SA)
Beth Dillon (NSW)
Arie Glorie (VIC)
Amala Groom (NSW)
Grace Herbert (TAS)
Liam James (TAS)
Loren Kronemyer (WA)
Youbi Lee (VIC)
Sinsa Mansell (TAS)
Kate McDowell (NSW)
Su-An Hg (NSW)
Anna Seymour (VIC)
Alexandra Spence (NSW)
Alexandra Talamo (NSW)
Sara Wright (TAS)

SITUATE Art Lab Provocateurs and Guest Artists 2018:

Edward Horne
Deborah Pollard
Eve Klein
Nathan Maynard
Sam Routledge (Terrapin)
Jonathan Kimberley (GASP)
Simon Spain (All That We Are)
Tristian Meecham (All the Queens Men)
Jessie French (MPavilion)
Stelarc
Nina Sellars
Willoh S. Weiland

For more information regarding the selected artists:

www.situate.org.au/2018-2/

SITUATE Art in Festivals is a Salamanca Arts Centre project for Early Career Artists assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Natasha Newman