Time and Place
Time and Place (TAP) is a collaboration between the Sainsbury Centre, Fabrica art gallery in Brighton and three institutions in France: the Muse�des Beaux-Arts in Calais, the Communaut� d�Agglomeration du Calaisis and the FRAC Basse-Normandie in Caen.
The project is funded by the EU as part of the Interreg initiative, designed to stimulate cross-border co-operation and explore shared culture and heritage. Over the next two and a half years the organisations will work together to run a contemporary art and education programme based around the themes of Changing Landscapes, concentrating on the special character of the coastal regions of the southern UK and northern France; and Aftermath, looking at the legacy of war and conflict.
Call for projects on the subject of MONUMENT
In 2014, the exhibition MONUMENT will unite the Time and Place partner institutions:
- The Frac Basse Normandie at Caen
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- The communaut� d�agglom�ration du Calaisis, Cap Calaisis
- le mus�e des beaux arts de Calais
MONUMENT
In 2014 the exhibition MONUMENT will be dedicated to the commemorations on either side of the Channel of the Hundredth anniversary of the First World War, as well as to the seventieth anniversary of the Normandy landings. However, rather than being literally devoted to the subject of the world wars, we aim to treat the theme very broadly, interrogating the subject in terms of all the legacies and ideas of war, all its vestiges, edifices, ruins and relics, and equally in terms of their veneration and their rejection.
The word Monument exists in parallel and in almost the same senses in English and French. In both languages, around the idea of monument and its commemoration are associations with history, art and indeed real events and news. It may be celebrated in works of architecture, or sculpture dedicated to the commemoration of a personality or an event, or indeed, be enshrined in a building remarkable for its beauty or its antiquity, in an installation, or in a more fragile or ephemeral medium such as film or drawing. Whether associated with a funerary or public context the concept thus unites the exhibitions on both sides of the Channel. It enables us to explore and call into question a common history, tormented and complex, from the Hundred Years War to the Twentieth Century.
MONUMENT will be dedicated to a number of separate exhibitions organised by the partners. Each one will form part of the global project. A single catalogue will bring the entire project together.
Information for your application
This call for projects aims to provide us with a clear idea of current existing work which is relevant to the MONUMENT theme, for selection for each of the partner venues and for inclusion in the catalogue. It is possible that once entries have been received and viewed that some further work will be selected for a commission. Also, in the light of any experience offered in education, mediation and participatory or performative projects, it is possible that an artist may be employed for a residency at one of the partner venues between January and June 2014.
Applications may be sent in the preferred language, English or French by 30 June 2013 at : [email protected]
