Autograph Open Call Heritage and Culture
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Opens4 Jan 2024
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Deadline5 Feb 2024
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Entry feeFREE
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The open call is intended to support emerging cultural producers who are working on a new or early stage project. The successful applicant will receive a budget of £1,000 to make their event happen at Autograph's gallery in London or online.
Overview
This year is Autograph's 35th anniversary. As part of their celebrations they are sharing three Open Call opportunities over the course of 12 months, each focusing on a different theme that relate to moments in their history. The theme of this second open call is Heritage and Culture, celebrating the photography of Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi whose work is part of Autograph's collection.
Practical Info
Authograph will consider submissions for events on all manner of creative issues so long as it speaks to the theme. This might include – but certainly isn’t limited to - launch events, spoken word or performance, in-conversation and Q&A events or creative workshops. The successful applicant will receive a £ 600 budget as well as a £ 400 curatorial fee. The selected event proposal will take place in either April or May 2024.
Applicants can be of any age. Autograph understands ‘emerging’ to cover people across a spectrum of experience, which includes those who have not developed an event of any kind before. The selection process will prioritise emerging practitioners above more established practitioners. Proposals can be for either online events or in-person events taking place at Autograph’s building in Hackney, London.
About Autograph
Established in 1988, their mission is to champion the work of artists who use photography and film to highlight questions of race, representation, human rights and social justice. Through doing so, Autograph invites people to explore the creative and critical power of visual representation in shaping our understanding of ourselves and of others. Every year they engage hundreds of thousands of people locally, nationally and globally at their gallery in London, digitally and through projects taking place in partner spaces.
