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LOITER artists and exhibition:
Our 6 artists commissions for LOITER below.
Beginning in the centre of Manchester and meandering through to Chapel Street and the Working-Class Movement Library, LOITER is a live public art exhibition incorporating new films, animations, sound, intervention and augmented realities taking place from 11:30-18:00 on 30.01.2021.
Omid Asadi
Omid Asadi is an artist whose practice is concerned with the human condition, the relationship between migrants and the new places and contexts they find themselves in. For LOITER, we have co-commissioned Omid with CFCCA to create a new performance.
Juliet Davis-Dufayard
Juliet is a French artist, performer, curator and former housing co-op organiser based in Manchester. Using collaborative principles, Juliet’s practice explores the lived experience of the everyday, using collective listening and doing to create sites for communality.
Tink Flaherty
Tink Flaherty is an artist making intimate, provocative work exploring disability, class and connectivity. Their practice includes public intervention as well as devised autobiographical performance. Tink is neurodivergent and committed to creating work that is accessible and engaging for neurodivergent audiences.
Parham Ghalamdar
Parham Ghalamdar is an Iranian-born painter, researcher, and curator based in Manchester. Primarily a painter, due to the Covid-19 disruptions and inaccessibility to the studio, he is expanding his painting practice into the digital realm by creating montages of stop motion animation from drawings edited alongside collages of archival footage.
Christian Selent
Christian Selent as artist in Remote Residence at the Working-Class Movement Library throughout November. Christian is a graphic & motion designer, animator, writer and musician based in Chemnitz, Germany. Christian is recipient of a Remote Residency at WCML developed in partnership with site specific art festival Begehungen, Chemnitz.
Shy Bairns
Shy Bairns have been specially commissioned to create our LOITER guidebook.
They are an artist collective interested in the intersections of contemporary art and bookmaking, and the activation of projects within that space. Shy Bairns is the collaborative practice of Izzy Kroese, Erin Blamire, Eleanor Haswell and George Gibson, who have worked together since 2016.
***CLOSED****Want to take part in LOITER?
Artist Tink Flaherty is creating a living archive of intergenerational memories and stories of those living or working in the Chapel Street area and would like to record a conversation with as many people as possible for their artwork. If you are interested in sharing your experiences of Chapel Street, please email Chris Bailkoski at info@proforma.org.uk titled 'Tink Flaherty Conversation' for more information. Deadline 15th December 2020.
IMPORTANT COVID Information
We will ensure that LOITER will operate following the latest COVID guidelines and we will provide updated guidance before 30th January 2021.
If you are planning to attend LOITER in January, please attend only with those in your household and/or support bubble, wrap up warm and fully charge your phone.
In an effort to reduce travel, we will provide a live digital experience of LOITER available for those outside of the surrounding Chapel Street area so you can still interact without attending.
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PROFORMA: LOITER Artist Open Call *NOW CLOSED* Artists announced very soon
2 Commissions open to artists living or working in Greater Manchester, of which at least 1 Commission is for a diverse artist in this region.
£1000 Artist Fee, £500 Production Budget plus Artist Mentor Package.
Project starts Autumn 2020 and completed by January 2021
Open Call Dates: 29thJuly – 5pm 18thSeptember 2020
Artists notified by 28thSeptember 2020
PROFORMA is launching LOITER, a one-day live visual art programme highlighting the significance of the Chapel Street area as one of the oldest trade routes connecting Manchester and Salford, and an area seemingly in constant flux. Continuing our programme of creating time-restricted exhibitions in non-gallery spaces, PROFORMA is commissioning two artists to create new, ephemeral artworks that reflect the vibrancy of this area and form part of the LOITER programme. Selected artists will also benefit from a tailored mentor and career development package.
We invite artists to propose innovative live artworks that will be temporary, durational and inspired by loitering as a subversive performative gesture, encouraging viewers to dawdle around Chapel Street and experience the area in new ways once time is taken to consider this environment.
Artists will be passionate about and work within live visual art practices including, but not limited to, performance, animation, moving image, sound, augmented and virtual realities, expanded fields of drawing, painting and sculpture, intervention and socially-engaged practices. LOITER will take place in winter 2020/21 (date tbc) and, with an awareness of accessibility, weather and social distancing issues, will be broadcast live to view online simultaneously.
Each commission is open to visual artists at any stage of their career, living or working in the Greater Manchester region and we ask artists to consider what they would want from our mentor package. One commission is specifically allocated to a diverse artist, including people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Mixed heritage, and applicants from these backgrounds will be equally considered for both commissions. We also encourage applications from LGBTQI+ artists.
Each commission is for £1000 artists fee, with an additional production budget of £500 and a tailored mentor and professional development package. Mentors include Nicola Dale, Cheryl Martin and Benji Reid.
Application Process:
Application and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form here:
Timescale:
Open Call Dates: 29th July – 5pm 18th September 2020, applicants will be notified by 28th September.
October and November: Research and Development, 3 Mentor Sessions.
TBC final production and art walk day no later than 31st January 2021.
Selection Panel
Chris Bailkoski– PROFORMA
Tamsin Drury– hÅb
Cheryl Martin– Artist, Black Gold Arts
Gaynor Seville– Arts Consultant and Producer
Eligibility Criteria
- LOITER Is open to all artists living or working in Greater Manchester in the following boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan.
- A minimum of one commission is for a diverse artist and our definition of diverse includes people from African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Mixed heritage.
- A completed Equal Opportunity Monitoring form must be included with the application.
- Artists working in any media will be considered but the proposed work will have to be within live art practices including performance, animation, moving image, sound, augmented and virtual realities, intervention and socially engaged practice.
- Artists at any stage in their career are eligible to apply however we require applicants to tell us how this commission and mentoring will develop your practice.
More about PROFORMA and LOITER panel and mentors:
Chris Bailkoski is creative director of PROFORMAand, since 2017, he has created a range of projects in including exhibitions and residencies at The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester, The Manchester Contemporary, SET Space, Dalston, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, Begehungen Art Festival Chemnitz, Germany and Corte Supernova during Venice Biennale 2019. He is also co-director of grassroots music venue, Soup Kitchen, Manchester.
Nicola Dale is a visual artist working across performance, sculpture and image. She is based in Greater Manchester and works internationally.
Tamsin Drury is Director of hÅb, a production and development organisation specialising in contemporary performance, live art and sited performance, based in Manchester. hÅb supports emergent and mid-career artists, producing events like Emergency, Hazard, Domestic and Works Ahead. hÅb’s public brand is Word of Warning – a peripatetic performance programme and Weekly Warning signpost to contemporary practice.
https://www.wordofwarning.org/hab
Cheryl Martin was Guest Curator for Liverpool’s Homotopia 2018, the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ festival. A Co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s Black Gold Arts Festival, Cheryl has worked as a poet, playwright and director, and was a former Associate Director, New Writing/New Work at Contact and Director-in-Residence at Edinburgh’s Traverse.
Benji Reid is a Choreo-Photolist - where theatricality, choreography and photography meet in a single or series of images.
Gaynor Seville is an Arts Consultant and Producer with over 20 years’ experience commissioning artists and developing significant projects nationally and internationally. She has produced and managed award-winning public art schemes and devised innovative professional development initiatives for artists. Gaynor has a long history working with and supporting the arts sector in the NW region, including project development and business planning for PROFORMA.
This project is supported by Arts Council, England