We're delighted to let you know that Katrina Palmer and Ben Rivers have been awarded the first two Open commissions. Their proposals were chosen from over 1500 submissions by a panel including Artangel's James Lingwood and Michael Morris, Radio 4's Arts Commissioning Editor Tony Phillips, and artists Clio Barnard and Roger Hiorns.
Katrina Palmer is a writer and artist, and author of The Dark Object, a series of connected stories about power relations in a fictional art school. Her Artangel and BBC Radio 4 Open project will excavate an undisclosed place in England through writing and installation, and be her most ambitious work to date.
Ben Rivers is a filmmaker who dwells on subjects at the margins of society building narratives that ebb and flow between documentary and fiction. His first feature-length film, Two Years At Sea, was presented at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011 and at the London Film Festival.
As well as the two awards, we'd also like to share with you the online Open 100; the panel’s selection of around 100 proposals from the 1500 submissions. Open 100 showcases some extraordinary ideas intended for a huge range of possible locations - as well as a few impossible ones …Thank you to all the artists for allowing us to share their proposals.
Open was conceived as an ongoing opportunity. And Artangel continues to be open to ambitious new ideas and is keen to hear from visual artists, filmmakers, writers, composers, theatre makers, choreographers and producers as well as artists working in the digital space.
The new deadline is 28 February 2014.
For more information and submissions visit artangel.org.uk/open
