Details of the new 2006 programme will be posted here shortly.
AIMS
To place video/moving works in unexpected situations where they may be integrated within everyday experiences and gain access to new audiences.
Visual Arts practitioners are invited to submit time based video pieces for selection to be shown in six different GP surgery waiting areas throughout Cornwall.
Waiting is the necessary and sometimes frustrating task for patients in a GP surgery, through the use of the visual arts we want to create a stimulating and enriching environment in which waiting takes place. A desire to enliven the human condition is at the centre of this project. In this situation, viewers should not be made to feel embarrassed, uneasy or offended by the content of the works but rather inquisitive, interested and diverted. We want to make the occasion less of an ordeal and provide a more enriching experience by using visual stimuli that is accessible to an extremely broad audience, from young children to the elderly.
PROCESS
Visual Practitioners are invited to submit time based video pieces for selection to be shown in GP waiting areas throughout Cornwall. Works are to be shown over a period of a year. We aim to create three show reels of fifteen selected pieces each (45 works in total) that will be shown in participating GP practices.
The selection team will consist of 3 Visual Artists, Michael Donnelly, Steven Paige and Molly Tufnell and representatives from Arts for Health, Cornwall, which is the sponsoring organization. A selection of works will be made based on both artistic merit and best fit of works for the project.
Each artist will have their credit at the beginning of their work on the show reel as well as in publicity material and on the web site. The successful artists will receive a fee of £30 for each work selected.
International submissions are welcome.
This is an Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Project funded by Arts Council England.