Opportunities

The Exchange 2024

Deadline: 1 July 2024

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EOP is a network built on personal connections and mutual support.

The Exchange 2024 aims to bring EOP members together, pairing peers and opening up space for new creative conversations. Though projects have emerged from previous iterations, there is no expectation that anything other than new professional relationships, constructive conversations, and friendships will develop. It is ultimately an open-ended process with no limits or boundaries, simply framed by the invitation to begin a discussion.

This Exchange 2024 will begin in July.

THE COMMITMENT

As a minimum Exchange participants must commit to:

  • Meeting their partner online or in person once a month for at least three months. Please think carefully about this – if you cannot make this commitment please do not apply.
  • Communicating directly with your partner (once introduced) to organise conversations/meetings.
  • Attending an online group workshop on Wednesday 24 July, 6.30 – 8pm.
  • Completing a short feedback survey after 3 months.

KEY DATES

Application deadline: Monday 01 July 2024

Pairs introduced by: Monday 08 July 2024

ONLINE Workshop: Wednesday 24 July, 6.30–8pm

HOW TO TAKE PART

Members who have participated in previous Exchanges are welcome to apply.

You will need to tell us about your current interests and practice, and the reason why this opportunity interests you at this time. Applications can be text based, or submitted as audio or video files.

We will take types of practice, stages in careers and research interests into consideration when pairing members, please note some of the most fruitful relationships in previous Exchanges have come from artists with diverse starting points who bring different perspectives to each other’s work.

We will try and pair as many EOP Members as possible.

 

BACKGROUND

The Exchange 2024 builds on The Exchange (2021) and The Exchange 2 (2022) and The Extraordinary Exchange (2023). In these previous iterations of the project over 80 artists have been paired together. Although there was no expectation of a formal outcome most artists did make together, producing everything from videos, online video games and sacred knotting installations to performances and walking trails. There were a variety of responses, connections, outcomes and conversations with some artists being in touch only during their Exchange and others who continued to talk and collaborate long beyond.