Castlefield Gallery and Aarhus Center for Visual Art are launching a two-year programme of professional development and artist exchange focused on developing low carbon and ecologically aware ways of producing and experiencing art.
SUSTAIN offers artists the opportunity to focus on and develop low carbon artmaking in an international context. Selected participants will be supported to explore how their practice and the way they work can contribute to a low carbon culture and a low carbon future. The programme SUSTAIN aims to facilitate an international Manchester-Aarhus peer network of 12 visual artists (6 in Manchester and 6 in Aarhus), a set of relationships that focus on low carbon cultures and climate change in the context of artistic production, work and consumption. Another aim of the programme is an action research pilot with an emphasis on delivering better understanding of artist exchange and international working, cultural export and import, on a slow travel and digital exchange basis.
Contemporary visual artists living and/or working in Greater Manchester and the Aarhus region are welcome to apply for two parts of the programme. The first part with the title SUSTAIN Artist Digital Exchange is asix-month programme (October 2021 to March 2022) of workshops, talks, visits, critical feedback and professional support focussed on low carbon artmaking for five artists from Greater Manchester and five artists from Aarhus. The second part SUSTAIN Slow Travel Residency Exchange is a2-month (May/June in Manchester; August/September in Aarhus) ‘Slow Culture Residency’, making use of only slow and low carbon travel to travel between Manchester and Aarhus. 1 artist from Greater Manchester and 1 artist from Aarhus will have the opportunity to participate in the second part.
Applications should be submitted before the deadline of 3 September. More information can be found here.
Aarhus Billedkunstcenter / Aarhus Center for Visual Art is an artist resource center supporting visual artists in Denmark’s Central Jutland region with the goal to open up new opportunities for local artists to work, learn, and develop their practice on a global scale. Castlefield Gallery is Manchester’s first public contemporary visual art gallery dedicated to the advancement of contemporary visual art and artists with a focus on developing visual artists’ practice.
