[cma-l] [Fwd: Launch of Liberate Tate Commission]

[Andrew Wood]

FYI below.
Andrew

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Subject: 	Launch of Liberate Tate Commission
Date: 	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:19:22 +0000
From: 	John Jordan <artactivism at gn.apc.org>
To: 	john lab <john at labofii.net>



Hi there,

It's been a while since I've been in touch, but I wanted to keep you 
updated of an exciting new development in the ongoing movement to break 
the sponsorship link between BP and the Tate.

Art/activist group Liberate Tate, has put out a call out for a sound 
artist to work with them on an Alternative Tate Audio Tour in response 
to BP sponsorship. I am pasting the full details below, and it would be 
great if you could pass it on to anyone who might be interested. It's a 
paid commission, and the deadline for people to send their ideas in is 
11th of April.

In addition, the performance/interventions that took place in 2010, 
grouped under the banner of Liberate Tate: Collected Works 2010, have 
been selected as 'best works' in the 10/11 MemeFest Festival of Radical 
Communications. You can read the nice things that the curators said 
about the performances here:

http://www.memefest.org/en/gallery/works2010-11/664/

Thanks for ongoing support, and help you can provide in getting the 
audio commission call out out there

yours JJ


http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/alternative-tate-tour-2/

*Liberate Tate: Alternative Tate Audio Tour*

Invitation to collaborate on a sound artwork in response to BP’s 
sponsorship of Tate.

This is a call for proposals for a sound artwork to act as an 
alternative audio tour/guide for the Tate. We want to install a new 
acoustic territory inside the Tate, to create a sound artwork that can 
occupy the Tate space yet exist within a much broader conceptual landscape.

The final artwork will be available online for visitors to download onto 
MP3 players in advance of their visit to the Tate. ‘Alternative Tate’ 
will be exhibited in late June 2011. The deadline for submissions is 
April 11th 2011.

We welcome expressions of interest from artists working with sound: from 
Turner Prize winners, to guerilla mash-up DJs, from people writing radio 
plays, to sound engineers, from field recording specialists to 
musicians. Although we are framing this as an audio tour, we do not want 
to restrict the structure of the artwork to a linear, guided narrative – 
artists are free to interpret the frame of the tour as they see fit.

Liberate Tate has a history of challenging the corporate presence of 
large oil companies inside cultural institutions, a presence that we 
feel compromises culture and expression. The alternative audio tour will 
be part of a broader endeavor to stimulate debate around the 
relationship between art, oil and climate change.

The artwork could come into contact with issues and themes of control, 
democracy, censorship, Freedom of Information, voice, corporate power, 
ecological disasters, creative freedom or the role of museums and 
galleries in creating and historically capturing culture.

We can offer a fee of £1000 and a budget of £1000 to the sound 
artist/collectives selected, but no production facilities.

In your proposal please include:

* a sample of your previous work
* a written proposal of your ideas for this piece (approx. 500 words)

Timeline:

* April 11th – Proposal deadline
* April w/c 18th – Face to face meetings with those shortlisted
* April/May – Research, development and production
* Late June – Launch

Please email your digital proposals to liberatetate at gmail.com 
<mailto:liberatetate at gmail.com> (and write “Audio Submission” in the 
subject line) or if you wish to send cd’s or any physical material 
please post to:

Licence To Spill
PLATFORM
7 Horselydown Lane
London, SE1 2LN

Yours,
Liberate Tate <http://www.liberatetate.org/home.html>

Liberate Tate is a network dedicated to taking creative disobedience 
against Tate until it drops its oil company funding.

PLATFORM 
<http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/alternative-tate-tour-2/www.platformlondon.org>
This project is supported by Artists’ Project Earth (A.P.E. 
<http://www.apeuk.org/>) and PLATFORM’s Licence To Spill IndieGoGo crowd 
funding.

Art Not Oil 
<http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/alternative-tate-tour-2/www.artnotoil.org.uk>
Since 2004, Art Not Oil has aimed to encourage artists to create work 
that explores the damage that oil companies are doing to the planet, and 
the role art can play in counteracting that damage. 


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