ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: Stockport Creative Campus Artwork #2

In response to FutureEverything’s emerging focus on art, technology and ecology, and drawing on your own practice, you are invited to respond to the following questions:

• As climate patterns shift and natural ecologies are increasingly synthetic, how does this affect our capacity to sense, heal, and rebuild relationships with the more-than-human world?
• And what part does technology play in helping, or hindering, our ability to notice and respond to those connections?

We’re particularly interested in ideas that challenge the usual ways we think about and use ecology and technology – especially those focused on categorising, controlling or making everything fully ‘knowable’.

The artwork will creatively engage with a site in/above/below Stockport. When we say site-specific, we’re thinking about places that carry layers of meaning, history, and environmental significance, or are indicative of new ways of cultivating nature. Examples of this could be Etherow Country Park, where traces of industrial heritage remain embedded in the landscape, or the former Millgate Power Station site, a space shaped by energy production and its legacy.

We also encourage a participatory approach to the project. This could take a range of forms; at a minimum we anticipate that the artist will devise and deliver 5 workshops with a diverse range of community groups in Stockport during the development and realisation of the artwork.

Ideally, the workshops will provide opportunities for members of these community groups to contribute their own ideas and stories to the artwork, and/or develop new skills and understanding of ecologies and technologies.

We are inviting interested artists/artist collectives to submit an expression of interest which should cover:
• An initial response to this brief including a description of your current artistic practice, your approach to the project, potential creative tools/platforms/formats that you would use, and the reasons for your interest in this project (not longer than a double-sided A4)
• Examples of current work or portfolio relevant to the brief (in PDF format)
• CV (in PDF format)
• Completed Equal Opportunities Form

Please send expressions of interest to Luke Oliveira-Davies, FutureEverything Producer at luke@futureeverything.org with the subject line STOCKPORT ARTWORK #2.

We particularly welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in the sector including people from the Global Majority, those who identify as disabled, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Fore more information about this commission, download the brief below.

Timeline:
Application Deadline – Monday 19th May at 17:00
Interviews – w/c 26th May 2025
Project commences – June 2025
Premiere artwork – Early February 2026
Evaluation – March 2026

Budget:
The budget is £30,000

The breakdown is as follows:
Artist Fee £12,000
Workshops Delivery Fee £3,000
Artwork Production and Presentation/Display £15,000
TOTAL £30,000
Additional budget details can be found in the downloadable brief