Worm will research & connect with the climate arts in East Asia supported by Arts Council England's DYCP
Worm is delighted to announce it has received full Arts Council England 'Developing your Creative Practice' (DYCP) funding to carry out research into climate arts practices in East Asia this autumn.
Developing Your Creative Practice is a new development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in the arts and culture sector. This fund will create more pathways for individuals from a range of creative practices and backgrounds and make a big impact on the successful practitioners and their creative development. Worm's award is one of the 98 awards in Round 5.
This will allow Worm (Angela Chan) to visit, connect and research with artists, curators, community collectives and science fiction writers in Taipei, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai. As Worm inquires how the arts may communicate climate change and work in cultural alliance with the global climate justice movement, this will be an invaluable opportunity to develop networks across East Asia to deepen an understanding of the breadth of climate arts, community initiatives and curatorial methods in this setting.
With an aim to build committed relationships between UK and East Asian climate arts practices, this development research project will sow the seeds for future collaborative opportunities, by devising creative projects that recentre and localise global climate conversations with other practitioners of colour in the UK and beyond. This research will be disseminated to continue Worm's long-term development of cross-cultural projects in the form of online and gallery exhibitions, workshops, publications and featured online artists profiles.
A series of blog posts on this website and Worm's Instagram stories @worm.art.ecology
will show weekly and daily updates during the trip respectively.
If you would like to connect with Worm during this research period (mid-October to early December) in one of these cities, please do get in touch: wormplatform@gmail.com
Full Autumn 2019 dates
Taipei - 15/10/ - 27/10
Hong Kong 28/10 - 10/11
Guangzhou 11/11 - 17/11
Beijing 18/11 - 24/11
Shanghai 25/11 - 2/12
Developing Your Creative Practice is a new development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in the arts and culture sector. This fund will create more pathways for individuals from a range of creative practices and backgrounds and make a big impact on the successful practitioners and their creative development. Worm's award is one of the 98 awards in Round 5.
This will allow Worm (Angela Chan) to visit, connect and research with artists, curators, community collectives and science fiction writers in Taipei, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai. As Worm inquires how the arts may communicate climate change and work in cultural alliance with the global climate justice movement, this will be an invaluable opportunity to develop networks across East Asia to deepen an understanding of the breadth of climate arts, community initiatives and curatorial methods in this setting.
With an aim to build committed relationships between UK and East Asian climate arts practices, this development research project will sow the seeds for future collaborative opportunities, by devising creative projects that recentre and localise global climate conversations with other practitioners of colour in the UK and beyond. This research will be disseminated to continue Worm's long-term development of cross-cultural projects in the form of online and gallery exhibitions, workshops, publications and featured online artists profiles.
A series of blog posts on this website and Worm's Instagram stories @worm.art.ecology
will show weekly and daily updates during the trip respectively.
If you would like to connect with Worm during this research period (mid-October to early December) in one of these cities, please do get in touch: wormplatform@gmail.com
Full Autumn 2019 dates
Taipei - 15/10/ - 27/10
Hong Kong 28/10 - 10/11
Guangzhou 11/11 - 17/11
Beijing 18/11 - 24/11
Shanghai 25/11 - 2/12
