Curatorial Practice Award 2018

Simon Martin, Louis Ghost Chair, 2012.

Curatorial Practice Award 2018

Application deadline: 5pm, 23 July 2018
Interviews: 30 August 2018

This opportunity is intended to enable people from low-income backgrounds to pursue curatorial careers in the arts.

What is the opportunity?

• £5,000 fee to develop and deliver a curatorial project of your choosing in the field of artists’ moving image
• Match-funding for your project, up to £15,000
• Year-long support and learning from the FVU team
• Regular meetings with an external mentor of your choosing
• Desk space at FVU for a year

This is an open call for people looking to develop their practical curatorial skills via a year-long placement at Film and Video Umbrella. During this period you will work to develop and realise a curatorial project of your choosing in the field of artists’ moving image. This project could take a number of different forms, such as an exhibition, education programme, commission, event, or screening programme.

We will support you to embrace challenges and to take and manage risks. You will be supported to develop, fundraise and realise your project by the FVU team, who will offer expertise and contacts in the specialist field of artists’ moving image, including advice and assistance with partnership brokering, artist management, commissioning, film production, AV presentation, communications and audience engagement.

FVU will double funds that you secure for the project, up to a maximum of £15K (so for a total budget of £30K). You will be provided with a £5,000 fee, and will be expected to be based in the FVU office approximately one day per week over the course of a year, though you are free to use the desk space as much as you want. The opportunity aims to provide you with real-world, practical experience of how to deliver a significant project that will not only help build professional confidence for the future but show evidence of delivery to prospective employers. We will also ask you to have a role in helping us review the scheme for a new participant to undertake in the following year. We will arrange for you to have regular meetings throughout the year with an external mentor of your choosing. Your mentor can both advise you on your project, as well as on developing your career beyond the opportunity with FVU.

Who is eligible?

• This opportunity is intended for people from low-income backgrounds. More information on what we ask you to provide to support your application is included in the ‘How to apply’ section below.
• You can be of any nationality, but you must have the legal right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the year-long placement.
• We will not accept applications from people who are currently undertaking a full-time educational course. We will accept applications from part-time students.
• You do not need to have studied the arts to apply but you must be able to demonstrate a knowledge of and a passion for the visual arts, and have a strong project idea or area that you would like to research.
• We are an organisation that specialises in making and presenting artists’ moving-image works, so to make the most of FVU’s expertise, your proposal needs to be within this field.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/curatorial-practice-award

Film and Video Umbrella
8 Vine Yard, London, SE1 1QL
www.fvu.co.uk