Everyone at Trongate 103: Call for papers: an action research project on visual art and people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities.
Everyone at Trongate 103 is an action research project funded by Engage Scotland exploring how our gallery education and interpretation programmes can be accessed by people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Project Ability, Glasgow Print Studio, GMAC, Glasgow Life and Street Level are working together to improve access for people with PMLD to Trongate 103.
To inform and inspire Everyone at Trongate 103 the project partners wish to hold a series of public events where a range of practices and approaches will be shared. We are now inviting artists across all disciplines with a professional interest in PMLD to share their own practice at such an event: we are calling for artist talks, performances, evaluation reports, research papers etc.
Programmed to coincide with First Thursdays at Trongate 103, there will be 6 events starting with a talk by artist John Shankie on the 7th April 2011. John Shankie recently spent eighteen months working with Sense Scotland as an artist-in-residence at TouchBase. The talk programme will take place in GMAC screening room. This space is suitable for talks, performances, screening etc.
Working together the T103 organisations will reflect on the learning and conversations instigated through the talks programme to agree a multi-disciplinary, cross-art form approach to gallery education and interpretation. This programme of activity will involve people with profound and multiple disabilities, their families and supporters in exploring how they experience the different exhibition and workshop spaces encountered within Trongate 103 and how the spaces and organisations relate to each other. This workshop delivery will take place in September and October and the project evaluation will be delivered in November 2011.
If you would like to be involved please submit an outline on one page of A4 by the 4th April 2011, images and dvd’s etc can be included. Please include a description of your experience and practice, how you wish to present you work/talk/event and any requirements you may have. Presentations will be one and a half hours including a Q&A and time for networking and discussion. Fee to be arranged.
Please send your outline to Project Ability at Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD
Email: submissions@project-ability.co.uk (please put “everyone” in the subject bar)
Selection will be made by the project partners. You can expect to hear back by the 15th April 2011.
If you wish to discuss your outline please contact: Elisabeth Gibson, Project Ability, Executive Artistic Director. Tel: 0141 552 2822
