CURATION AND CO-ORDINATION OPPORTUNITY

Crate Studio and Project Space is offering an opportunity to develop a year long programme for its project space, starting Autumn/Winter 2008. We are offering a £500 fee to develop the programme and funding application/s, with Crate's support.

The project space at Crate is designated as a research and development space for artists, rather than an exhibition space. This curatorial opportunity is to examine how artists' practice can be supported by the project space, and to explore the space between studio and exhibition. Previous programmed projects at Crate have supported collaborative research projects, residencies, artists' talks, and have established networks and exchanges. See Crate Programme Archive for more details.

The funding application/s would include provision for curation and co-ordination time. If funding bids were successful the Project Space Co-ordinator would deliver the year's programme.

Please send a CV and one page application outlining initial ideas by Monday 16 June 08 to admin@cratespace.co.uk

SPRING 2008

In May 2008 Margate Rocks presents its sixth contemporary art festival. The festival celebrates and promotes contemporary art. The theme for Margate Rocks 2008 is Art and Ecology, and under the curatorship of Jessica Baum, the festival will present a programme of commissioned works, exhibitions, workshops and symposia in a variety of spaces. Crate is hosting a residency in Project Space 1 during April and May for an artist to create new work for Margate Rocks.

For further information on Margate Rocks contact:
hello@margaterocks.com

In an extraordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan is to be buried in the sand on Margate beach for an incredible 48 hours. Starting on Saturday 3rd May at 12 noon and ending at 12 noon on Bank Holiday Monday 5th May 2008. The performance is an attempt to save the Great British Seaside Holiday and the environment/planet at the same time.

THIS EVENT IS PART OF MARGATE ROCKS
http://www.margaterocks.com/

Mark McGowan is resident artist at CRATE during April and May.

For more info:
http://savetheenviromentandcometomargate.blogspot.com/
http://www.markmcgowan.org/

THURSDAY 27th March 2008 at 7PM

A screening and talk based on Caroline Furneaux’s CRATE residency will take place in Crate's Project Space 1 on Thursday 27 March at 7pm.

Caroline’s work Everything Around Us Is Culture (8 min 3 secs) reflects on the nebulous and politically charged term ‘culture-led regeneration’.

In 1997 the decision was taken to build a world-class contemporary art gallery in Margate to rival those in St. Ives and Bilbao. Following ten years of investment and controversy, Turner Contemporary is scheduled to open in 2010.

Caroline's project adopts a documentary-style approach to consider what this investment means for Margate. By complementing still images with sound in the form of a slideshow, she creates juxtapositions that are by turns striking, ironic, beautiful, hopeful and sad. The photographs seek evidence of ‘culture’ in the landscape, while the audio – a mixture of interviews and ambient sound – reveals the different responses from the people living and working there.

DIRECTIONS to CRATE and a MAP are available in the 'About Crate' section of the website.