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UAL Widening Participation Programme – Afterall Internship Two days per week (between Monday and Wednesday) for six months, £9.80/hour About Afterall: Afterall is a Research Centre of University of the Arts London, located at Central Saint Martins. It is a non-profit organisation that undertakes contemporary art research within this academic framework, and in partnership with other international educational and cultural institutions. Afterall is a journal of art, context and enquiry, which offers in-depth analysis of artists’ work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Afterall Online continues the lines of enquiry explored through the journal. Afterall Books has three strands of publications: 1) One Work, a library of small books, each title focusing on one important work of contemporary art through a single text; 2) Exhibition Histories, a series examining exhibitions that have shaped the way contemporary art is experienced, made and discussed; and 3) a series of Critical Readers looking at significant areas of modern and contemporary art practice through the commissioning and reprinting of a collection of key texts. Internship opportunity: The Afterall internship would offer you the opportunity to discuss contemporary art with Afterall’s editorial team, gain research experience and insight into the publishing process. Your role at Afterall: As an Afterall intern, your role will be essential in supporting the Editors. Your tasks will include: • Researching artists, relevant topics and authors in preparation for editorial meetings • Researching images, and securing their reproduction rights • Drafting picture captions and picture credits • Publishing texts on the Afterall Online pages of the Afterall website • Assisting in the organisation of Afterall events and generally supporting the office About you: This position would be perfect for someone who is interested in contemporary art, critical writing and arts publishing. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with strong communication skills and high attention to detail. Administrative experience or an interest in online publishing would be an advantage. Afterall Central Saint Martins 1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA T: +44 (0)20 7514 8440 For more information, please contact: [email protected] Auto Italia South East Oxford House Derbyshire Street Bethnal Green London E2 6HG www.autoitaliasoutheast.org Artquest Widening Participation Programme Job Title: Intern Production Assistant Employer: Auto Italia South East, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London E2 6HG Reports to: Edward Gillman, Artistic Director Dates: August 2017 – February 2018, two days per week (TBC) About Auto Italia: Auto Italia is an artist-run project and studio that commissions and produces new work – collaborating directly with emerging artists. Founded in 2007, it aims to provide a framework for developing alternative production and exhibition formats. Throughout the history of the organisation there has been a questioning of how artists can work together to develop new formats for artistic production. Projects have taken on various formats ranging form collaborative public programming in temporary spaces, commissions and presentations in institutions and galleries, and the production of collaborative projects through working online. This work has been shown nationally and internationally at Tate Modern, ICA, London; Kunst-Werke, ABC, Berlin; Artissima LIDO, Turin; CSS Bard, New York; Ithuba Arts, Johannesburg amongst others. Internship opportunity: The Auto Italia internship will offer you the opportunity to gain production experience in a production focused visual arts organisation, gaining an insight into the commissioning process by assisting artistic teams in the development of a public exhibition programme. During the internship you will be introduced to a range of financial and organisational aspects of project development, and be introduced to Auto Italia’s growing creative and digital communities. Your tasks will include: • Assisting with the day-to-day running of the office and project space by providing administrative support. • Documenting press material and archiving it within the organisation’s systems. • Researching platforms, communities, and press channels for the promotion of programmes, actively seeking to develop the organisation’s audiences. • Assisting with the generation of development strategies through conducting prospect research and actively seeking new funding opportunities. • Supporting the writing of small fundraising applications, including compiling press packages, images/supporting material, and tracking artists development. • Working with artists and Auto Italia to source exhibitions materials and AV (including finding quotes and comparisons), and assisting technical staff building exhibits. • Conducting research related to technical exhibition production under the guidance of artistic staff and associated artists. • Assisting the Auto Italia team to ensure that project resources are allocated in accordance with project timelines, and that projects are delivered on time to budget. Other duties will include: • Participating in team meetings, reporting on your work with the Auto Italia team. • Acting as an ambassador of the space at public events and exhibitions. • Occasional support at public events taking place during evenings and weekends. About you: You have an active interest in contemporary visual arts, and are interested in gaining skills that will help the development of your own creative practice in the future. We are looking for a pragmatic individual, with strong communication and time management skills, who will thrive in busy collaborative environments. AWP Internship at Cinenova 2 days a week over 48 days (6 months approx.) @ 9.80 p/h About Cinenova: Cinenova is an artist-run charity dedicated to preserving and distributing the work of women/feminist film and video makers. Cinenova currently distributes over 500 titles that include artists’ moving image, experimental film, narrative feature films, documentary and educational videos made from the 1920s to the present. The thematics in these titles include oppositional histories, post-colonial struggles, reproductive labour, representation of gender, race, sexuality, and importantly, the relations and alliances between these different struggles. Cinenova was founded in 1991 following the merger of two feminist film and video distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women, each formed in the early 1980s. Since 2001, Cinenova has been run on a voluntary basis by artists and curators, known as the Cinenova Working Group, dedicated to the constellation of films, histories and politics that make up Cinenova, believing in the necessity of keeping the collection together and autonomous, rather than dispersed into larger and more general archives. As well as the hire of film and video prints for screenings throughout the UK and internationally, Cinenova has worked in recent years on significant exhibition projects that include Select and Dispossess, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2013); Bodies Assembling, Auto Italia, London (2011); Group Affinity, Kunstverein Muenchen (2011); Reproductive Labour, The Showroom, London (2011). Recent venues, festivals and academic institutions that have screened work from the Cinenova collection include Tate Modern, Barbian, BFI Southbank, Whitechapel Gallery, Calvert 22, The Watershed, Bristol, The Star and Shadow, Newcastle, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Light Industry, New York, MCAC Geneva, Kunst-Werke Berlin, London Feminist Film Festival, BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London Palestinian Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Doc Lisboa, Berlin Biennale, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Goldsmiths, York University, Toronto. About the Internship: This role offers the opportunity to work alongside the Cinenova Working Group in various capacities, largely assisting with day-to-day administration involved in the hiring of film prints and videos: • Processing requests for screenings: preparing video materials; digitizing titles where necessary; sending out associated stills and texts; coordinating between couriers and the hirer • Special projects, primarily the digitization of the collection and paper archive (an ongoing project). • There is also the potential for research; both historical, into the collection itself, and contemporary, as part of a wider ongoing project to extend the current collection with contemporary works (the last title was acquired in 2001). • Other admin potentially including: updating website and social media; assisting with book keeping and other financial tasks. • Joining monthly Cinenova Working Group meetings to discuss workload, projects and funding • Liasing with The Showroom when needed regarding the digital archive, bookings and possible events and queries related to this • Updating social media channels including, Facebook and Twitter Role Requirements: The role would suit anyone with an interest in feminist practices and politics, as well as interest in moving image work. No specific skills are required as there is a range of tasks which can be learned. However having some basic experience of working with video (eg Final Cut Pro) would be an advantage but not essential. As the organisation is so small the role will offer the opportunity to become familiar with all areas of the organisations’s work, and to become more familiar with the area of feminist moving image, not least to see, and research,