Artist Application

Application Deadline: September 30, 2003


Please provide written or audio response to the following questions. If you are sending an audio tape please limit it to twenty minutes in duration. If you are submitting a written response please limit it to a maximum of five pages, single sided, with a 12-point font.

Please note that clarity and brevity are appreciated when you are preparing your application. Feel free to use plain language and point form.


Application Requirements

  1. Artist's Contact Information:

Name
Mailing address
Phone number
E-mail address

  1. Artist's CV

  2. Names and contact information (phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses) for two community members who have been involved in a community art project or artistic practice with you. These may be unaffiliated participants or people associated with partnering community organizations.

  3. The questions listed below are guidelines to help us understand your work.

    Describe the community arts project, practice, or tradition that you would like to create a video about.

    Who is the community that was involved in this project, practice, or tradition?

    How did the community get involved and what were/are their roles?

    What was the original intention of the project?

    Why did you decide to participate in this project?

    Describe your role in the project and its relationship to your ongoing arts practice.

    What did you learn,gain,or lose from doing this project?

    In your opinion, was the community affected by the project, or artistic practice? In what ways?

    How do you define community arts practice? What are your thoughts on the relationship between art and community?

    What values and/or principles guide your work with communities? Do these values or principles have a relationship to your artistic practice or tradition?

  4. Tell us about your previous attempts to document your community arts projects. What were the successes and frustrations?

  5. What kinds of documentation (slides, photos, audio tapes, raw video footage, etc.) do you have of your community arts practice that you could bring with you to utilize in the video you would create?

  6. Do you have any past, current or upcoming projects that would lend themselves to video?

  7. Please submit documentation of some of your previous artwork.

    This could include:

    - up to 10 slides or photos
    - up to 10 written pages of text (if pages in a book which ten pages?)
    - an audio tape (please use standard cassette size)
    - a VHS video tape.

All materials must be accompanied by descriptions of what will be seen or heard.

Any tapes, audio or video, should be lined up to significant sequences.

All documentation materials will be returned.

Artists interested in participating in Documenting Engagement are strongly encouraged to collect new (and existing) documentation of previous or current community arts projects including; raw video footage, audio tapes, reviews, slides and photos, etc.

 

Please submit applications to

Stuart Poyntz
Education Director
Pacific Cinémathèque
200 - 1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC  V6Z 2L7 Canada

 

Notice to all Documenting Engagement Applicants:

All documentation materials (including video, film, audio or other media) must have participants' permission. If professional artists are involved, these permissions may need to include waivers from their professional associations such as Actor's Equity.

Example of Release Form

I hereby grant to you, Documenting Engagement Institute and the Pacific Cinematheque, the right to use my image and voice for the purposes of screenings, festivals, broadcast, media education workshops, and distribution of video projects.

It is also understood that any such materials (video, film, audio, and any other media) will be used with the highest integrity and discretion, with the intent to communicate responsibly and ethically, the subject matter contained therein.

Print Name

Street Address

City, Province, Postal Code

Signature, Date

Parent/Guardian, Date