Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, Maintenance, 2004
SPACED 2011: Call for Expressions of Interest – visit http://iaskaspaced.wordpress.com
After ten years of operations in and around the town of Kellerberrin, IASKA is greatly expanding the scope of its activities. IASKA’s new core program is Spaced: an international biennial event that will reach communities throughout Western Australia as well several overseas locations.
Spaced will feature commissioned visual and media arts projects created by artists working on-site with a wide range of local social and environmental situations. Centring on contemporary art practices with a strong social focus, Spaced will comprise context-responsive projects, international exchanges and a multi-purpose online hub. The outcome of this inter-related cycle of activities will be showcased in a large group exhibition in Perth. The broad theme of the event is an exploration of the evolving relationship between globalisation and local identity.
Selected artists will be offered a substantial remuneration package inclusive of artist’s fee, materials and production costs, travel allowance, accommodation and a car.
For more information visit http://iaskaspaced.wordpress.com
IASKA is widely regarded as one of the most original and innovative art organisations to have emerged in Australia in recent times. Our international program provides opportunities for artists to develop context-specific projects for 2-3 months in a number of regional and remote towns throughout Western Australia as well as selected metropolitan and overseas locations. Our activities comprise context-specific projects, exhibitions, publications, educational and mentoring programs.
Recent projects include Mukinbudin (Julia Davis), Jakarta (Roderick Sprigg), Lake Grace (Wouter Osterholt and Elke Utentuis).
In 2011 IASKA will launch SPACED, a new international biennial event featuring visual and media art projects created through a combination of engagement with specific local situations and a global dialogue facilitated by Web-based technology. The event will link concurrent situation-specific projects in rural and metropolitan communities throughout Western Australia and international locations. The projects will form a network of ‘nodes’ and facilitate exchange between culturally and geographically distant places.
IASKA (originally International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia) was established in 1998 through a collaboration between farmers and art professionals and was based in Kellerberrin. Artwork generated through previous residencies has been presented as part of two major touring exhibitions, ‘From Space to Place’ and ‘Out of Site’, which can be viewed on the IASKA website.
IASKA is assisted by the Community Partnerships Committee and Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. Legal support provided by Freehills.
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