In October this year, Bow Arts will present In the footsteps of the East London Group – an exhibition exploring the past and present of east London, bringing together the historical paintings of the East London Group with their 21st century contemporaries.
For the exhibition, we are inviting artists with a connection to east London to submit their proposals for a new, contemporary sound piece to be exhibited in the show. The piece will activate the gallery and provide an atmospheric soundtrack which will immerse visitors as they move through the exhibition and encounter the streets, scenes, and communities which make up the fabric of east London, then and now.
We are looking for proposals for sound artworks in a range of different formats – from soundscapes, field recordings, conversations, and interviews, to community radio broadcasts, audio experiments, songs, chants, incantations, and more. There are no explicit requirements for format or length of the audio artwork – we only ask that the work must be suitable to be played/looped throughout the exhibition, but we are open to different interpretations of this and more experimental installations too.
The selected sound artwork will be exhibited for the duration of In the footsteps of the East London Group’s 11-week run at the Nunnery Gallery.
The selected artist will have three months to develop and produce the new sound artwork and receive:
- An artist fee of £5000
- A production budget to go towards the purchase of necessary equipment and materials needed to produce the work
- An installation budget to install the work in the exhibition
- Curatorial support and advice from the Nunnery Gallery team
OPEN CALL DEADLINE: 9am, Monday 17 June