Thick Time Radio Station

International Artist Exchange

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Take Me Somewhere is undertaking an online residency programme with six festivals and venues considered world-leading in contemporary, experimental performance and live art.

Six artists based in Scotland and six artists nominated by our international partners will participate in Thick Time Radio Station (TTRS), developed and facilitated by Karen Christopher. TTRS has been designed to explore approaches to co-mentoring relationships between artists, blurring the boundaries between mentorship and making, between making and finding, and between finding and illuminating. In light of the COVID pandemic, and the necessity of maintaining peer connections & international friendships in an isolating time, the workshop has been adapted to exist in a low-pressure, slow, online format. 

TTRS will be focused around four 2-hour sessions spread over two weeks, with activities including introductory conversations, solo making, reporting back and creative provocations. It will suit artists who are looking to develop meaningful relationships with their international peers, or who are looking for a supportive, creatively nourishing environment to grapple with a particular question relating to their practice.

In addition to TTRS, the participating artists will be welcome to attend certain events in the Take Me Somewhere festival for free (subject to ticket availability and capacities). There will also be an opportunity to share experiences of the process in a public conversation about international exchange in COVID times, taking place during the festival.

Inspired by the ethos of the Take Me Somewhere Artist Constellation, this exchange and development programme hopes to foreground and develop new international friendships and collaborations between artists, under the belief that artist-to-artist connections are central to the health of artistic communities and international knowledge exchange. 

To help ensure financial precarity is not a barrier to attendance, each participant will receive a £350 stipend towards their time. Accessibility will be central to the exchange and participants’ access requirements will be supported.

Key Dates: 

19th Feb 2021 (17:00) Deadline for applications to participate

16th - 30th April 2021 Thick Time Radio Station (Four sessions over the weeks - exact schedule TBC)

Eligibility

Applicants must be based in Scotland and must have been working professionally outside of education for a minimum of three years. We are seeking proposals from artists working in contemporary performance or Live Art. Participants will be required to attend all four sessions, complete a short evaluation and attend a discussion event on the process during TMS 2021.

Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer and teacher. With her company, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, she is engaged in creating a series of performances generated through collaborative performance-making processes. Karen was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until the group disbanded in 2009. She now lives in the UK, working to define a practice which continues in a collaborative mode. Her focus is on artistic negotiation in the making process and finding non-traditional structures for working and composing live performance works. Her work includes listening for the unnoticed, the almost invisible, and the very quiet. She is paying attention as a practice of social cooperation.
www.karenchristopher.co.uk

This edition of Thick Time Radio Station is funded by Creative Scotland, British Council & Goethe Institut.

Images by Carol Amanda Bedoy