Co-Creating Collections for Priority and Future Audiences: Socially Engaged Photography and Small to Medium Sized Public Organisations is a new CDA between the photography department at Birmingham City University and the Open Eye Gallery Liverpool with support from Coventry University.
The CDA is a unique opportunity for a practice-based researcher to work in the context of a live national partnership project supported by an internationally recognized, cross institutional supervisory team within the context of the UK’s leading socially engaged public photography programme. Based at the Open Eye Gallery, with access to two additional national collections housed at museums across Aberdeenshire local authority, Scotland and Armagh local authority, Northern Ireland, this CDA invites candidates to think through the challenges faced by small-to-medium art organisations in how they use and build meaningful and accessible collections through socially engaged processes.
We invite candidates to explore, test and develop new methods and strategies for creatively and critically responding to and expanding upon the indicative enquiry of how artists and curators may reactivate and develop collections for new and emerging communities within the context of a smallmedium sized organisation. Located within an interdisciplinary framework of social practice, photography, and archiving, it is expected that the successful candidate will be driven to develop new knowledge within the methodological and theoretical aspects of socially engaged photography, archival research and more broadly, museology. Applicants should have knowledge or a willingness to develop/acquire skills in these fields as well as autoethnographic approaches to fieldwork and sitewriting ethnographies through a method best suited to the candidate and environments, as well as typical methodological approaches to community-engagement, such as photovoice and photo/image elicitation. Findings and outcomes that could be realised are exhibition planning/delivery, community engagement strategies and/or archival practice.
Co-Creating Collections for Priority and Future Audiences: Socially Engaged Photography and Small to Medium Sized Public Organisations
Expression of interest deadline: 15 November | Applications deadline: 13 January 2024
Details: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Co-Creating-Collections-for-Priority-and-Future-Audiences.pdf
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