An artist or designer to work with radical youth organisation The Advocacy Academy to contribute to thinking around the power of the archive to enhance potential for creative advocacy. Questions include how historic campaign materials may become an active resource, how an archive of dissent might be organised, displayed, used, shared and activated. We are seeking a creative response produced through individual and co-creation activities. The Advocacy Academy has an excellent record of achieving impact through the campaigns and ongoing work of its cohort and alumni. Their archive, a variety of materials produced and used in previous campaigns over a decade, is rich with examples of advocacy materials, tools, techniques and inspirations. The Advocacy Academy does not currently have a structure or policy around activating these inspirational materials. This role forms part of a wider research project looking at histories and current practice of creative dissent, archival practices and potential policy impact led by University of Brighton, Royal College of Art and Clare Cumberlidge & Co. Activities within the wider project address formal issues of archival practices and will support the creative response of the selected artist/designer. Following a process of survey, engagement and co-creation activities the artist/designer will propose and produce a model of archival activation, for example; a policy, an upskilling workshop for TAA youth workers and/or a system of archive categorization and display. This project is delivered by three core partners, The Advocacy Academy, Dr Harriet Atkinson, University of Brighton, and Clare Cumberlidge of curatorial and strategic agency Clare Cumberlidge & Co. Dr Harriet Atkinson, Centre for Design History, University of Brighton https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/harriet-atkinson Clare Cumberlidge & Co https://clarecumberlidgeandco.com/about This project is funded through the University of Brighton's Policy Support Fund. The artist/designer must have experience of working with young people and a demonstrable interest in creative archival processes. The artist/designer will be comfortable operating within the project map of connections - young advocates, academics, youth workers, community organisers, designers, and borough and national policy makers. The artist/designer will be based at the Liberation Centre, TAA's home base in Brixton, with some hybrid working. The artist fee is £6,000 to comprise 21 days work at Artists Union recommended pay rate of £280 per day. The artist/designer will be appointed in April 2025, the main body of work will take place during May 2025 with some delivery, evaluation, reflection and contribution to wider project outcomes in June 2025. It is imagined that the work will include a range of activities including the following (we are open to different approaches to the brief); Please send a CV, examples of up to 5 images of previous work (in pdf form or through link to digital portfolio or website) and a covering letter explaining why you are interested in this opportunity and how you meet the requirements.Job Summary
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Shortlisted artists will be invited to interview and paid a fee of £250 to prepare a short presentation about their work and approach to the brief.
Closing Date: 30 March 2025
Interviews: April 7th 2025
The Advocacy Academy is committed to promoting equitable opportunities and an equitable working environment for all its people. Beyond diversity, we actively encourage equity, fairness, and justice in all its forms across the organisation. We have a strategic commitment to conducting a recruitment system that is equitable and inclusive. We encourage applications from black, brown and other racialised communities, those who identify as LGBTQIA, working class as well as disabled people, those living with mental health conditions, refugees and migrants.