(Back / On / Beyond) Margate Pride is inviting applications to participate in the second BRINK residency this summer. BRINK is a seven day residency for LGTBQIA+ artists and creatives working across varied disciplines; where all creative practice is welcome. BRINK encourages cultivation and generation through collaboration and negotiation. Where different practices meet and lived experiences are shared, where new worlds appear in the creative collision.

CONCEPT

The residency invites participants to explore and respond to notions of the BRINK: being on, coming back from, breaching, going beyond. The BRINK is a destination, physical and psychological, emotional and for some spiritual. It is a threshold site, a verge, a transition in a multitude of possibilities.

LGBTQIA+ lives exist in these liminal spaces, dualistic places that are often paradoxical and othering, impulsive and theoretical.

Using sharing as a vehicle for collaboration, what unknowns will be manifested as the outcome of this exploration and how will the geographical site impact the participants making; as Margate sits on the edge of the British isle, on the Brink of regeneration and coastal dilapidation via socioeconomics and climate change.

DATES

10th august to 17th August, with Turner Contemporary opening event on the 10th August, and Margate Pride on 13th August.

STRUCTURE

The residency takes place over seven days, starting with a welcome workshop with local queer artist Kavel Rafferty, who runs Hotel Michele, that will generate works to be exhibited in the project space on Pride day. 

Participants are invited to facilitate sharing workshops for each other on the 2nd and 3rd days. Participants are invited to hold a sharing and/or exhibition on the final evening of the residency which is directed by the participants through their experience. This could take many different shapes.

10.08 - Introduction + Welcome screen print workshop / making posters with Kavel Rafferty

11.08 - Participants sharing workshops

12.08 - Participants sharing workshops + hang poster exhibition

13.08 - Pride Parade Day

14.08 - Open Access

15.08 - Open Access

16.08 - Open Access

17.08 - Sharing/Exhibition

WHAT YOU GET

• An amount of £400 as a stipend towards travel expenses, taking time off work or material costs. 

• Screen print workshop with local artist Kavel Rafferty

• Two opportunities to exhibit your work within Dreamland

• Build a network with other LGBTQIA+ artists, curators and galleries in the area.

• Potential for further collaborative partnerships with other participants

ACCOMODATION

There is no accommodation offered as part of this residency.

HISTORY

BRINK started in 2021 and was conceived by artist and Margate Pride producer Lo Lo No, who also participated in the residency which took place at Nayland Rock Hotel in collaboration with Margate Now Festival. This year BRINK will take place at Resort Studios Project Space, in the studio’s new home within the iconic Dreamland amusement park.

FUTURES

Tolu and Jen were awarded the Jerwood 1:1 fund in late 2021, after their residency at BRINK.

Read more about the fund and their practices here