Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists

DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists. To mark the tenth anniversary of DIY, 2013 will be a bumper year with 20 projects supported across the UK. ********************************************************************************************************************* Deadline for proposals to run DIY 10 projects: Noon Monday April 8th, 2013.

DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists. DIY understands that the development of a Live Art practice is as much about the exploration of ideas and experiences as training in skills and techniques, and past DIY projects have proved to be invaluable experiences for project leaders, participants and organisers alike. They want to hear from you if you have an idea for an exciting, innovative and idiosyncratic Live Art professional development project that offers something new and is geared to the eclectic and often unusual needs of artists whose practices are grounded in challenging and unconventional approaches, forms and concepts. If you think you can initiate and run a DIY professional development project then read the guidelines and send them a proposal.

This year, nine DIY partners have also written specific briefs for artists to respond to, which cover an exciting and diverse range of themes:

1. Live Art and feminism

2. Live Art and Sound and Music

3. Live Art and Yorkshire Sculpture Park

4. Live Art and National Theatre Wales (WalesLab)

5. Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas)

6. Live Art and In Between Time: Water Proof

7. Live Art, performance as protest and the online element

8. Live Art and young people

9. Live Art and Cornwall Proposals

 Further details on these categories and all details of how to apply can be found here