Deadline: 8 April 2024
The EVA International now welcome Platform Commission proposals from artists based in Ireland, selected by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais and Roy Claire Potter.
Selected proposals will be offered support for the realisation and presentation of new work as part of the upcoming biennial programme (August – October 2025), taking place across sites and spaces in Limerick. Although EVA’s programme is typically presented as an exhibition, they are actively encouraging proposals that go beyond the usual parameters of venue-based exhibition presentation.
Platform Commissions is an initiative to support the production of significant new works by individual artists and collectives based in Ireland. It invites the submission of proposals from eligible artists for new artworks and projects through a simple, open, and supported process.
Thematic Guidelines
- The selection panel has drafted the following statement as a guide to applicants:
- ‘Access in the arts is commonly understood as the inclusion of (and the reduction of barriers for) disabled, neurodivergent, d/Deaf, Mad and chronically ill people in the making and presentation of artworks.
- The Platform Commissions for the 41st EVA International seeks to commission projects that build on this definition, framing access as a method of creating alternate forms of sociality, or convivial ways of being together.
- They encourage applicants to look beyond the exhibitionary form when responding to this framework, and they welcome proposals that imagine interventions, events, gatherings, publications and performances — in material, corporeal and digital forms — or anything else that, as yet, they cannot imagine.’
Eligibility Criteria
- They will only accept proposals from artists that are currently based in Ireland, or else will be based in Ireland during the development and production process of their project
- Platform Commissions proposals must be for new artwork and projects
- Students in full-time education are not eligible to apply
- A maximum of one proposal can be made per individual artist or artist group/collective.
For more information, visit EVA International.
