DIY 5:2008
professional development projects BY artists FOR artists

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for all DIY projects
Your chance to take part
Deadline: Monday 21 July 2008

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DIY 5 offers artists working in Live Art the opportunity to take part in a unique series of short training and professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists. DIY 5 projects are aimed at both emergent and experienced practitioners. DIY 5 is taking place across England and we are offering 11 projects during August and September 2008 in collaboration with our partners. DIY 5 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with Arnolfini and Theatre Bristol; Artsadmin; Colchester Arts Centre; Fierce Earth, North East; New Work Network and China Plate; and Nuffield Theatre and LANWest.

The DIY 5 programmes take many forms from train journeys, treasure hunts and football matches, to workshops and group meetings. And between them cover areas of exploration from autobiography, through to online performance (just to name a few).

Applications are now open for artists who would like to participate in DIY 5 projects.

Short descriptions about all the DIY 5 projects are below. Visit the Live Art Development Agency website for full details of all the projects and information about how to apply:


The deadline for applications to take part in all DIY projects is Monday 21 July 2008.


A workshop that dazzled, energised, rocked me, changed me, made me a better artist and a better person. A fantastic, friendly atmosphere that allowed each of us to be trusting, generous, original and sharing. (Chloe Dechery, DIY participant)



Autobiology
A workshop exploring the connections between the body and the mind, biology and biography, drawing on participants‘ "gut feelings" and generating autobiographical material "straight from the heart"
Led by Curious
Monday 6 to Friday 10 October 2008
Toynbee Studios, London

Open Space
A weekend escape to the Clent Hills for artists working in live art from the West Midlands conurbation. A chance to play in the great outdoors, and to explore how our city-based practices fare when set free in an “open space” without walls
Led by Katie Day, Artistic Director of The Other Way Works
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 August 2008
The Clent Hills, just outside Birmingham, West Midlands

Hunting for Treasure
Finding new ways to make participatory site-specific work and engage audiences in fun and playful ways
Led by Yara El-Sherbini
Monday 1 September to Friday 5 September 2008 (three days to be confirmed)
Newcastle (venue tbc)

The Living Room Project
Spend an intensive weekend with The Living Room Project. A chance for 8 artists to reflect on their own practice through the use of a bespoke 'tool-kit'
Led by Sheila Ghelani and Caitlin Newton Broad
Friday 8 August, Saturday 9 August, and Sunday 10 August 2008
Three living rooms across London

HE SAID Football League
Join HE SAID’s football league! Discover new things about your practice, meet artists and have a good old critical debate in a non-pressured, alternative way
Led by HE SAID Talent Agency
Saturday 16 August 2008
Colchester Castle Park

Avatartist 2.0
A three-day artists' workshop in Second Life®, the 3D virtual world imagined and created by its over 14 million residents
Led by Stephen Hodge
Monday 15, Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 September 2008
Exeter (venue tbc), South West

Archive Y’self to Pieces
A chance for artists to become obsessively self-referential archivists of their own practice and outputs
Led by Richard Layzell
Saturday 13, Saturday 20 and Saturday 27 September 2008
London (venue tbc)

All Change!
Artists, reawaken your wanderlust! Here begins a holy-cow-of-an-adventure! Through a series of physical, artistic and emotional journeys, artists will encounter the ride of a lifetime
Led by Stacy Makishi
Friday 8, Saturday 9, Sunday 10 August and concluding train journey Saturday 23 August 2008
Toynbee Studios, London and mystery destination

Please keep your luggage with you at all times
A weekend looking at the role of the suitcase in live art and ways to explore this iconic symbol in performance-including a day for individual adventures
Led by Geraldine Pilgrim
Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September 2008
London (venue tbc)

First Retreat then Advance!!
A four-day cultural activist intervention into Liverpool08, Capitalism of Culture with The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
Led by twoaddthree
Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2008, Retreat at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Liverpool;
Saturday 20 September 2008, Advance in Liverpool; and
Sunday 21 September 2008, Show and Tell at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster.

Things to Make and Do (part one) - urban beach-combing -
I like constructing things out of old boxes, knitting my own clothes, making my own books and merchandise. If you do too let’s meet up
Led by Matthew Robins
Monday 11 to Thursday 14 August 2008 (three days to be agreed within this period).
London (venue tbc)

Full details for all projects, links for further information, and project lists by date and region are available online:

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