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Want to stage a realistic re-enactment of a violent 1980s industrial dispute? Or, perhaps, line the interior of an entire apartment with brightly coloured copper sulphate crystals?
Want to stage a realistic re-enactment of a violent 1980s industrial dispute? Or perhaps line the interior of an apartment with copper sulphate crystals?
These are the kind of apparently pie-in-the-sky proposals that the arts commissioning body Artangel has realised in the past: and now it is asking artists, composers, filmmakers and choreographers to propose fresh ideas for apparently fantastical projects, the best of which it will then fund to the tune of £1m, and produce.
These are the kind of unlikely proposals that the arts commissioning body Artangel has realised. Now it is asking artists, composers, filmmakers and choreographers to propose fresh ideas for up to five fantastical projects, on which it will lavish £1m between them .
According to Jeremy Deller, who won the 2004 Turner prize for his Artangel project restaging the miners' strike confrontation known as the Battle of Orgreave, the ideas submitted should "make Artangel sweat a bit: people should suggest something that no one else would touch". When he applied to Artangel with his proposal – which involved marshalling a cast of hundreds and reopening the political and personal wounds of those who had been originally involved, "It was less of an idea and more of a challenge. I didn't think it was really possible to do it. I was pretty taken aback when they said they would take it on."
According to Jeremy Deller, who won the 2004 Turner prize for his Artangel project restaging the miners' strike confrontation known as the Battle of Orgreave, the ideas submitted should "make Artangel sweat a bit. People should suggest something that no one else would touch". When he applied to Artangel with his proposal, which involved a cast of hundreds: "I didn't think it was really possible to do it. I was pretty taken aback when they said they would take it on."
Roger Hiorns was the artist who created Seizure, a London flat that was coated in Yves-Klein-blue copper sulphate crystals. That work earned him a place on the 2009 Turner prize shortlist and this May the piece will be installed permanently in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Working with Artangel, he said, allowed a project that had been simply a "proposition" to become a reality. He said the process had been a "supportive and intuitive conversation". He added: "With the level of insanity of the project – which came with the possibility, right up to the last minute, that it wasn't necessarily going to work – it was interesting to have that level of commitment."
Roger Hiorns was the artist who created Seizure, a London flat that was coated in Yves-Klein-blue copper sulphate crystals (right). It earned him a place on the 2009 Turner prize shortlist and this May the piece will be installed permanently at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He said: "With the level of insanity of the project it was interesting to have that level of commitment."
Proposals for Artangel Open are invited by 29 April from artists working in all media: from composers and theatre makers to choreographers, visual artists and filmmakers. Shortlisted artists will have the opportunity to develop their ideas with mentors, who include figures such as filmmakers Andrea Arnold and Penny Woolcock and artists Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean. There will also be 12 "open platforms" in late January and February for artists in cities around the UK, including Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester, where interested artists will be able to meet Artangel co-directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris.
Proposals for Artangel Open are invited by 29 April from artists working in all media: from composers and theatre-makers to choreographers, visual artists and filmmakers. Shortlisted artists will have the opportunity to develop their ideas with mentors, who include filmmakers Andrea Arnold and Penny Woolcock and artists Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean.
Lingwood said: "However incredible our networks are for finding extraordinary ideas they are by their nature limited. By opening our doors like this we hope to find younger artists who will put forward amazing proposals. We feel that we want to get ideas that are forming in the darkness into our field of vision."
There will also be 12 "open platforms" in late January and February for artists in cities around the UK, where interested artists will be able to meet Artangel co-directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris.
Deller's advice to artists? "Suggest something that couldn't exist anywhere else and be clear and concise about your idea – don't give the judges two sides on the theory behind it. Artangel wants its own capabilities to be stretched – and they want to stretch their audience, too. Give them something entirely new."
Lingwood said: "We hope to find younger artists who will put forward amazing proposals. We feel that we want to get ideas that are forming in the darkness into our field of vision."
Deller's advice? "Be clear and concise about your idea – don't give two sides on the theory behind it. Artangel wants its own capabilities to be stretched. Give them something entirely new."
