The Wild Spaces commission is an exciting opportunity for an artist to work with communities, researchers and partner organisations to deliver a participatory programme and temporary artworks that investigate the natural ecologies around the site of the new University of Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC), next to Bristol Temple Meads Station.
Wild Spaces is an eighteen-month commission that will take place alongside the construction of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, which is due for completion in 2026.
It will focus on the importance of ecology at the campus and across Bristol, using TQEC’s access to the waterfront as a platform for examining the bigger picture of ecologies and wild spaces across the city.
We are looking for an artist who will find imaginative ways to create a dialogue between the communities and the ecology of the site, providing new perspectives on the site’s relationship with water and the natural landscape. This artist will explore the waterfront of the Enterprise Campus in collaboration with local communities – partner organisations, residents, academics, students, businesses, and visitors. Through research and participatory events, the artist will develop a programme of enquiry to understand the area’s natural landscape and the relationship between people and place.
The artist, together with communities, will create temporary interventions that vividly animate themes of ecology and share this very special aspect of the site with wider audiences.
Process and Temporary Interventions
Considering the relationship between people and nature will inform the temporary interventions. The process could create or utilise temporary environments for learning about habitats and areas of ecological interest, or possibly take the form of discovery trails, audio, digital or outdoor exhibitions. Interventions or activities could highlight and draw attention to the biodiversity around the future campus and the natural ecologies and wild spaces around the city.
During a period of research and development, the artist will work closely with delivery teams to identify suitable partners, opportunities, sites or applications for the interventions or the outcomes.
It will be important to consider the sustainability of activities or temporary interventions
– both in terms of materials that minimise extraction and future maintenance or degradation of artworks.
Opportunities and Support
The artist will be supported in their process by a project team: the University of Bristol Public Art Coordinator and the Contemporary Art Society *Consultancy, who manage the University’s public art programme. It is also expected that the artist will work with Cabot Institute for the Environment.
The artist will be supported to make connections and collaborate with:
- University researchers from relevant disciplinary backgrounds
- Community organisations and networks engaged with environmental concerns in the local and wider context
- Local communities who may be potential future users of the TQEC
Duration
18 months
Lead Artist Fee
£20,000 including travel and accommodation, to be paid in instalments.
Based on 80 days across 18 months at £250 per day.
Separate budget for engagement activities and fabrication of temporary artwork is available as follows:
Temporary outcomes £20,000
HOW TO APPLY
Please email an Expression of Interest to public-art@bristol.ac.uk
Please include:
- your name, address and email
- CV (max 2 pages)
- Up to 10 images of current or recent artwork
- Brief description of practice (500 words)
- An outline of your interest in the opportunity (500 words)
- Your approach to collaboration and an indication of partners you would aim to
work with (200 words) - A statement explaining your relationship to Bristol (100 words)
Public art programming for the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus will be delivered with a range of artists with local, national and international experience, reflecting the diversity of the University community and the city of Bristol.
Timeline
Call Out publicised 19 September 2024
In person information Session at
Bristol Digital Futures Institute* 30 September 2024
Webinar information session* 1 October 2024
Closing deadline for expressions of interest 28 October 2024 5pm
Notification of outcomes will be sent by email November 2024
Interviews 12 December 2024
Commission commences January 2025
Website link: https://public-art.bristol.ac.uk/public-art-at-temple-quarter/wild-spaces/
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