Discursive Spaces | Artist open call

 A paid residency for five West Midlands based artists in any stage of their artistic development, to produce a solo show in response to community engagement and research of ‘Heterotopia’s’. Each successful proposal will be experienced as a one month residency per artist in our gallery and studio spaces, where the research will inform an artistic outcome in the form of a solo exhibition at the end of the month. The process, research and outcomes will be presented as an academic publication – in collaboration with a writer in residence - that encapsulates all five artist’s journey investigating the spaces and engaging in community discourse regarding the historical, cultural and political context of the spaces in the city.

A stipulation of the residency is that each artist must engage with a local space and its frequent inhabitants or lack thereof. These heterotopias or non-spaces will inform the research and the…