HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
- That's easy.
- Send a letter of intent to NationalEncampment@gmail.com and express why you want to become a Creative Collaborator and a little on your creative background. Deadline is August 15, 2008 (See Call for Participation).
- After that we will send you an on-line application form to submit.
- The selection process of all Creative Collaborators will be completed by August 18. Some cases earlier or later depending on the scheduled Installation Creation Workshop in your region.
DO I HAVE TO HAVE A STORY AND INSTALLATION IDEA IN PLACE TO BE SELECTED?
- No. The Creative Process starts after you have been selected.
ONCE I AM SELECTED AS A CREATIVE COLLABORATOR WHAT HAPPENS THEN?
- You will become a member of our National Creation Network, a down to earth, no bells and whistles way for all of us to remain connected as a national creative team.
- More on that when you are selected but think of it as an on-line Design Journal.
WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH PROCESS INVOLVE?
- Every Creative Collaborator will start to dig and discover stories from the history of intellectual disability, and then select one that inspires you.
- You will also be able to work with the local ACL people (Association for Community Living - www.cacl.ca) who are already gathering and assembling stories.
- Building a Google Group Story Bank with as many stories as possible for all project members from across the country to access.
CAN I POST A STORY THAT I HAVE OR DISCOVER THROUGH MY RESEARCH?
- Absolutely. As part of the team of our National Creation Network, we are encouraging every one to gather and post as many stories as possible so our Story Bank becomes a great resource for the stories and history of intellectual disability.
- You will also post the story you have selected.
CAN I USE MY OWN STORY?
- Yes and No. We are asking that all Creative Collaborators have a certain amount of distance from the story that they choose, however, your story can be included in the Story Bank for other Creative Collaborators to potentially use.
WHEN CAN I SELECT MY STORY?
- After your research into other stories and the history of intellectual disability.
- This is part of our process so that story and history are properly contextualized before the Installation Creation Workshop begins.
WHEN DO I START TO MAKE MY INSTALLATION?
- At the Installation Creation Workshop. Depending on your region the workshops will be scheduled with the local ACL, since each participating region will have a hub where the Installation Creation Workshops take place.
CAN I HAVE MY INSTALLATION MADE BEFORE THE INSTALLATION CREATION WORKSHOP BEGINS?
- No. We work as a group to develop the installations.
WHAT CAN I DO ONCE I HAVE SELECTED MY STORY?
- We will work with with you at this point but to a certain degree, what you do after you select a story will be dependent on that story. Concepts, preliminary designs, materials, etc. will be thought about. This work happens before the Installation Creation Workshop.
HOW MANY HOURS WILL I HAVE TO COMMIT TO DOING THE WORKSHOP?
- 20 hours of scheduled workshop time over a period of 3-5 days.
- The most up-to-date Schedule will be posted regularly on the website.
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS IN AN INSTALLATION CREATION WORKSHOP?
- You learn and share the techniques for developing an installation specific to this artwork’s concept and content. We also share our selected stories, explore our different experience and look at the visual and emotional emblems in the story. We will work together to transform our images, thoughts and feelings into a visual work and then pack it up for transport to Ottawa.
- Remember that your final work must fit into a large weather-proof archive box. It must be accompanied by a set-up manual for the Ottawa presentation October 2-4, 2008, so that our production team can clearly set-up your work if you are not present.
- It is mandatory for Creative Collaborators to attend the entire Installation Creation Workshop and develop their own Living Studio pages.
DO I GET TO KEEP MY WORK?
- At the end of the project, the work of every Creative Collaborator will be donated to the enduring archive of The Encampment and the Story Bank will be donated to the CACL.
- Photographs and other documentation of the process and final artwork will be posted on the website as a national testimony to what everyone created and gave together.
- Consider The Encampment a kind of creative Potlatch.
DO CREATIVE COLLABORATORS GET PAID?
- We consider our work a creative exchange, a barter. We offer the conceptual arena and means for a creative collaboration and presentation free of charge in exchange for your participation to create something larger than any one of us can do on our own.
HOW DOES MY WORK AND EFFORT GET RECOGNIZED?
- Your Living Studio, in the programme, on the website and the catalogue.
I CANNOT COMMIT TO BEING A CREATIVE COLLABORATOR; ARE THERE OTHERS WAY TO PARTICIPATE?
- Yes.
- However, the same application process of
sending a letter of
intent to NationalEncampment@gmail.com
will be required, after which
you will be sent an on-line application form to complete for Studio SM
outlining these other ways to particiapte.
If have any other questions, please do not hesitate to email us at NationalEncampment@gmail.com