Go Make!
Latest News - 2 May 08 : Dada-South and English Heritage are jointly inviting applications across all art-forms for Go Make! Residency at Fort Brockhurst, Gosport. Once a Victorian Fort, with full moat, drawbridges, parade ground and central keep it is now primarily a museum store and a relatively untouched vast space full of potential to explore ideas of exclusion, defence and barriers. Physically this is still an isolated site and we are seeking applications from early to mid-career practitioners who wish to engage with the site and the local community through workshop opportunities. Final exhibition or performance will take place as part of Heritage Open Days. Artists and performers must define themselves as Deaf or disabled, live or have a connection to the South East Region and be over 18 years of age. There is a fee of £5000 to cover workshop delivery, materials and final piece.

Download Residency Brief or contact Go Make Project Manager Esther Appleyard for more information. Closing Date Thursday 19th June 5pm.

Go Make!
Background : Dada-South's commissioning programme Go Make! gives Deaf and disabled artists an opportunity to make new work and then exhibit this work in a high profile venue. The current commission used the following quote as a starting point for a ten week residency at the WEA Clovelly Centre, Southampton.

'There is a temptation to represent the experience of disabled people within ethnic minority communities as a "double oppression". It is assumed that these people have to contend with the disabling experience of impairment and that they must do so within a social environment which in Britain is discriminatory and bigoted against ethnic minority communities.' Ossie Stuart

David Dixon, visual artist, has been exploring ideas around how an individual responds to factors that contribute towards marginalisation and discrimination, by interrupting the normal flow of information. Dixon has delivered workshops to women at the Clovelly Centre and has also worked with the Southampton Youth Offending Team.

The exhibition of work made during the residency will take place at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Private view Tuesday 6th May 6 - 7.30pm. The exhibition runs from 7th - 24th May during normal gallery opening hours.