Andrea Keen, At the Still Point of the Turning World, 2024 Artist Project Career Launcher recipient
Artist Project 2024
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ARTISTS
We're excited to announce Andria Keen and Ghislan Sutherland-Timm as the recipients of the Artist Project 2024 Career Launcher. Andria will be presenting an interactive installation and Ghislan will be exhibiting in one of the fair's booths for the 2024 fair.
Andria Keen (she/her) is currently completing her MFA in Visual Art at York University. She received her BFA from OCAD University’s Cross-Disciplinary Life Studies program and was the recipient of their 2023 Bluma Appel Award. Andria’s interdisciplinary methods lean toward the meditative processes in labour-intensive materially focused works. Engaging themes of temporality, cyclicality, and inclusion of the natural world through abstraction, figuration, and signifying narratives, she seeks to question our perspectives and place in relation to nature and how we inhabit deep-time, both past and future.
Website: www.andriakeen.com
Instagram: @andriakeen
Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (Je-iz-lan/Jess-lin) (they/she) is a multidisciplinary craftsman and amateur media archivist based in Tkaronto/Toronto.
As part of the queer Black Canadian diaspora, their artistic practice is influenced by their ancestral ties and reconnection to their Afro-Vincentian heritage and Carib (Island Carib/Kalinago) roots. In this process of activation, they seek to merge their identities alongside their English and Scottish (Clan Sutherland) ancestry in understanding fragmentations of their multicultural identity hosted within embodying living entities, memories, and land formations. Their work is also ignited by the ephemerality and tactility of sound and film. In creating "incomplete complete" works, collage-making across diverse mediums is frequently utilized within their practice to shape autobiographical-fictional narratives and subjects of ambiguous beings. Through this intersection Sutherland-Timm navigates unraveling the mythologies and romanticization of home and homecoming.
Previous works of Sutherland-Timm's has been featured at InterAccess (2024), Xpace Cultural Centre (2024), ArtSpace Gallery (2023), Images Festival (2023), PITCH Magazine Issue 4 (2023) & Issue 2 (2021), RBC Commission Career Launcher OCAD U x RBC (2022), InsideOut 2SLGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival (2022), Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) (2022), and Nia Centre for the Arts in collaboration with McMaster Museum of Art (2021).
Website: www.ghislan.com
Instagram: @orphicinema
OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION
The Artist Project and The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers are excited to announce the return of the Artist Project Career Launcher for an upper year student or recent graduate of the Integrated Media, Life Studies, Digital Futures, Sculpture/Installation or Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design programs.
Students and recent alumni are invited to apply for this paid opportunity which provides a professional venue and large public audience for their work. The successful applicant will participate in the 15th annual Artist Project held at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, April 11 - 14, 2024
The Show Director will select a successful applicant and The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers will provide a $2,100 production and artist fee grant towards the realization of this outstanding opportunity.
DEADLINE
Monday, February 5, 2024, 8:00 AM ET
OPPORTUNITY AND VENUE DETAILS
- Dimensions of the project space are roughly 10 x 30’ square feet in size.
- The space provided at the fair is located among other exhibiting artists. It is important to keep the sound levels of the proposed project minimal.
- The fair hall is lit with overhead lighting and high ceilings. Creating an enclosed dark space would be difficult. The suspension of materials from overhead is not possible in the fair hall.
- The fair is family friendly. Therefore project content should not include nudity or profanity.
- A wall cannot be guaranteed. Artists are encouraged to imagine projects that can be viewed from a 360° perspective.
- A changing and/or staging area will be provided as needed
- Artists will be responsible for their own transportation and installation
- AV equipment and electricity needs must be sourced from the Better Living Centre venue. Below is a general breakdown of estimated associated costs:
- Electrical outlet: $200
- Overhead light (Highbays): $320
- Wall mounted light (Arm lights): $100
APPLICATION SUPPORT
The OCAD U RBC CEAD is committed to promoting substantive equality for equity-seeking groups that are under-represented in the creative sector. We encourage applications from first-time applicants to the program and graduates of equity-seeking communities including racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities / expressions. Applicants are welcome to advise the CEAD of any accommodations needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process. Applicants who need assistance with their submissions are invited to connect with the RBC CEAD for Advising support. Click here to learn more about how to book an advising appointment.
ACCESSIBILITY
Applicants who have concerns about meeting a Career Launcher application deadline are invited to connect with the CEAD in order to discuss possible alternatives. We encourage all who might require assistance with the application process to reach out to determine available support. Outreach of this nature should be undertaken at least one week prior to the published application deadline.
PARTNER
The Artist Project
Date: April 11 - 14, 2024
Location: Better Living Centre, Exhibition PlaceToronto
QUALIFICATIONS
- Current student or recent graduate of Integrated Media, Life Studies, Digital Futures, Sculpture/Installation or Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design programs (2022 and 2023).
- Priority will be given to proposals that consider the venue details
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received a Career Launcher opportunity
INFO SESSION (Artist Project Career Launcher)
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Click here to RSVP
Join our upcoming info session to learn more about the program, the Artist Project, and resources for putting together a strong application.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Contact info (Name, phone, and email)
- Current creative CV
- Website and/or social Media handle
- Artist statement/bio (150 words max)
- A short proposal which communicates your interest in the opportunity and a very clear expression of your project proposal. Proposals should include a description of the project and its ideas, and a summary of how it will be installed/displayed. Sketches of the install/layout are welcomed. (500 words max)
- Link to your relevant portfolio and/or links to recorded material (Vimeo, YouTube etc.). Do not send video files.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION
Contact
Shellie Zhang
Special Projects Coordinator
E: szhang@ocadu.ca