spring 2010 summer

• AudioLab10.02 Whitstable Biennale Sound Symposium

click image above for spring summer programme

 

autumn 2009 - 2010 spring

 

AudioLab10

 


Harminder Singh Judge - The Modes of Al-Ikseer
The Drill Hall, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1 BW
5 March 2010 @ 7.30 PM

Sound Symposium - the language of place
The Salt House, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset
6/7 March 2010

For information download PDF here

or email: mandy@pva.org.uk


SALT Artist Residency


Photo by Duncan Whitley

PVA MediaLab is seeking proposals from artists wishing to work with audio in a site-based context. The studio can offer one week's accommodation and a presentation fee of £200.

The residency will enable selected artists to research and develop new work in a unique environment. This research will be presented at a sound symposium in Bridport, Dorset (6 March 2010) and will be included in a weekend programme of activity involving keynote addresses by Duncan Whitley, Jennie Savage and Peter Cusack (stbc) alongside a curated programme of work.

Guidelines for application are here.

Please note: the medialab is equipped with a sound system including 5.1 surround and Yamaha NS10 monitors. All audio documentation submissions will be played out through this facility.

The application deadline is 3 February 2010.

Domus 2010

PVA MediaLab and the Roman Town House, Dorchester are seeking proposals from practitioners interested in producing a new moving image work for projection, assisting deaf and hearing-impaired people in West Dorset in the process.

Through workshops in March the artist will develop a looped projection piece intended for public exhibition. The work aims to explore the site's history and environment through the use of digital media, communicating through light the message of a unique and historic structure.

DOMUS - to produce a moving image work (Son et Lumiere) for projection at the Dorchester Roman Town House

Fee: £2500 inclusive of expenses

Delivery framework: 10 days

http://www.romantownhouse.org/domus/

A PVA MediaLab/ Dorset County Council partnership project supported by The Big Lottery Fund

 

LabCulture - 3 Months Online!

3 months online at LabCulture

A 3 month opportunity for artists to place work on the LabCulture website, which has an established network of publicity and support.
Over a period of 3 months submit weekly reflections and examples of your developing creative practice. An opportunity to:

  • explore, re-examine and extend working practices, processes and ideas
  • collaborate, experiment and develop partnerships
  • engage in peer critique, debate and conversation

Submissions from all artists welcome. Partnership projects welcome.

Click here for more information.


Artist Moving Image Commission - live IT love IT film IT!

A South Dorset Ridgeway Heritage/AONB and PVA MediaLab Artist Commission

live IT love IT film IT! - produce an artist moving image work and support young people (14 - 25) to create three new pieces that capture the spirit of the South Dorset Ridgeway

Fee: £5000 + negotiable travel expenses  (additional technical support budget tbc)

Further information here:

download pdf

http://www.dorsetaonb.org.uk/our-work/south-dorset-ridgeway/

DEADLINE 6PM, NOVEMBER 23

LabCulture Residency, Burton Bradstock, Dorset 2009


Burton Bradstock
photo by Andrea Crociani

A week-long intensive residency on the Jurassic Coast focussing on professional development, engagement with digital media, interdisciplinary practice and networking. The lab focused on this specific location, supporting artists to develop new work in relation to place, earth science and the natural environment.
The selected artists were -
Sybella Perry
Ivon Oates
Eva Bensasson
Michael Day
Georgie Knight
Amanda Wallwork
Chris Barnett
Sophie MacCorquodale

Thanks to Artist Andrea Crociani for initiating location, development and support and to the Burton Cliff Hotel.

Supported by Arts Council England, SW and Dorset County Council.

See more (coming soon)


Films Selected For Four Rivers Festival, Croatia

Three short films have been selected for screening at Four Rivers Festival, Karlovac, Croatia (September 2009)

'We're OK Aren't We', 'One Week Later', and 'Site Crew' are moving image works written filmed and produced by young people across Dorset.

www.hfs.hr/hfs/festival_563_e_home.asp

LabCulture Online Residencies

Between November 2009 and October 2010 the LabCulture site will host 4 artists in residence. Resulting work will be archived on the site. Register your interest with a mail to julie@pva.org.uk

Gus Cummins exhibiting at Holton Lee

corridor by gus cummins

From 19th Sept - 31st Oct 2009 Gus has an exhibition at Holton Lee in Dorset. Visit http://www.holtonlee.co.uk/arts/exhibitions/current_exhibition to check the gallery location, and ring to confirm opening times. Holton Lee books private functions sometimes, so is not always open.

Gus's work is informed by his epilepsy.

In 2007 he won the DaDaFest Visual Arts Award in Liverpool, and in 2008 produced the installation ‘Invaders’ with the Exeter Phoenix Digital Art Bursary. In 2009 the International league Against Epilepsy flew him to Budapest to collect the Centenary Film Award for ‘Ictal’, extracted from his DaDaFest installation, produced at PVA with Arts Council and DaDa support.

The Holton Lee work tries to explore other aspects of epilepsy and consciousness by showing how the world appears to him as he enters a seizure, and recounting fragments of memory from an unconscious phase.

www.ictal.net
www.cummins-art.com

 

Universal Value 2009 - Charlie Morrissey

The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site acted as the backdrop to a 
triptych of art events, the first coinciding with the launch of the UK 
Cultural Olympiad at West Bay, Bridport on September 28, 2008.

Artist Charlie Morrissey was commissioned by PVA MediaLab to produce 
three site-specific works in Dorset and Devon. The works employed the 
UNESCO World Heritage Site as a backdrop, stage and cinema screen to 
draw our attention to the global significance of the site, exploring 
its geology, natural history and environment and reflecting on their 
outstanding universal value. This series is entitled Deep Time and is 
the first from the studio's ‘Universal Value’ commissioning strand. It 
points out that this place on which we walk is made of everything that 
has gone before us and is an ever- changing record of the process of 
evolution. The work is a meditation reflecting on our fleeting time on 
the planet using images projected onto the cliff face.

Origin of the Species  West Bay Bridport  http://www.pva.org.uk/UV08.htm 

Here Now  Budleigh Salterton Devon   http://www.pva.org.uk/BS.htm

Without Us Lulworth Cove Purbeck  http://www.pva.org.uk/LC.htm

Thanks to The Lulworth Estate, Activate, Dorset County Council, 
Jurassic Coast Trust, Dance In Devon, DepArture, and Ladram Bay 
Caravan Park.

This is a partnership project with the Jurassic Coast Arts Programme.

Best Drama Award

best drama first light

PVA MediaLab has been successful in gaining 'Best Drama' award at the First Light Awards for 2009. The award was presented by Film Director Danny Boyle to the young people of Ferndown School. Link to ITN news coverage of the awards.

Since 2003 PVA MediaLab has worked on 12 films with young people from across Dorset, funded by First Light and Mediabox with additional support from the Wellcome Trust and local authorities. These projects have been very successful and we have secured screenings across the UK and at international film festivals. Four have been nominated for First Light Awards with 1 winning Best Screenplay and 2 winning Best Drama, the most recent in 2009 and presented by Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle. The documentary "Living Statistic" won 2 Best Documentary awards and currently forms part of the BFI's Mediateque "Essentially British" archive.

Activision First Light Movies Awards 2009
One Week Later winner of Best Drama, March 17 2009, Leicester Square Odeon
Produced by PVA MediaLab, Bridport
Presented by Danny Boyle

Look no further than Dorset for Britain's next generation of filmmakers, writers and actors!

SALT Residencies

Announcing 4 new opportunities for south west based practitioners. Each SALT residency offers one week's accommodation, access to studio facilities and a considered period of time to develop new work.


The SALT programme offers 4 applicants:
• an opportunity to explore, re-examine and extend working practices, processes and ideas;
• collaboration and experimentation;
• potential new partnerships;
• peer critique, debate and conversation.

The studio is offering space to enable artists to dedicate time to the exploration and development of their practice, and an opportunity to share the outcome of that research period at a platform event.


The scheme is open to artists based in the South West region of the UK.
More details here: PDF download

Deadline for Submissions
Ongoing

Residency dates:
2008 - 2009 (TBC)