Application round opened: PUSH+ HOME

We are delighted to announce that the first round of applications for the EU project PUSH+ is now open! Would you like to participate in an eight-day artist lab with the theme "HOME" in Scotland together with performing artists from Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Denmark?

Scenekunstbruket is a partner in the EU project PUSH+, together with partners from Belgium, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark and Thailand. Through this EU project, we will "push" and develop thoughts, ideas and art within performing arts and dance for young audiences.

First artist lab: HOME

Imaginate is hosting the first lab taking place in Scotland from January 23 to February 1, 2019, and the participating performing artists will live and work together for 8 days. There are three places for performing artists based in Norway, participating alongside performing artists from Belgium, Ireland, Denmark and Scotland.

The following questions should be investigated:

• Does home have a different meaning for children? How are we impacting on children by portraying home in theater and dance as a place of cosiness and safety where this is not their experience of life?
• How does our experience of place create identity and belonging, both of which are essential to an understanding of home?
• How much is a sense of home connected to 'physical' space or place and notions of permanence. What is it to live in the middle spaces where sometimes nowhere feels fully like home?
• Is wherever I lay my hat, my home - privilege, assumption, exclusion?
• How does our relationship to our environment - built and natural - affect and inform our sense of self, place and home?
• How do experiences of migration inform the place-making that is involved in making a home?
• Do we really know who lives in our cities as immigration itself diversifies, with immigrants from new countries moving in, resulting in an increasing and/or changing range of nationalities?
• Do elements of our home affect the art we make - landscape, language, culture, bodily expressions, rituals, communal storytelling, history?

Read more about PUSH+ here.

Application deadline:

Applications should be sent to push@scenekunstbruket.no by Monday, October 29. Here you will find the application form to be used: PUSH+ HOME Lab - Application Form. The application must be written in English. English is also the working language in the artist lab.

More information about the lab and the application process can be found in this document: PUSH+ HOME Lab - Open Call Guidelines

Scenekunstbruket selects the participating artists and provides feedback to all applicants by November 12.

Photo: Neil Harvey