emergency

about emergency

Artists working in live art, contemporary performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts are invited to submit proposals of short pieces of work, works in progress or extracts of longer works for inclusion in this event.
emergency is:

a free public platform weekend

an opportunity for artists to meet, show and peer review work

a selection event for a number of small Method Lab and Seedfund commissions to be developed and supported by greenroom and hÅb

an artist networking event.

Proposals should be for pieces with some live presence, 20 minutes maximum for show-type work, technically simple and adaptable to quick turnarounds. Intervention-based works in and around greenroom are also strongly encouraged.

Selection will be by Garfield Allen of greenroom and Tamsin Drury of hÅb.

Priorities are for high quality and exciting live art/contemporary performance work by North West based artists, which has not been seen in Manchester before.

Proposals from non-North West based artists will be considered particularly if they are for interventions and/or for Workspace and Open Space (bar/mezzanine), but due to high demand and logistics may not be able to be included in the Performance Space programme.

The focus of the event is on non-linear performative work from a cross-artform background. We therefore advise that work that is primarily from a theatre, poetry, music or dance base would be better served by proposing to a different context.

To get a feel for emergency check out emergency’s MySpace.