Kakilang Commissions

Kakilang Commission Award

We are delighted to announce two new CAN Commission opportunities for our 2023 festival.

We are looking for live work that is ambitious, fresh, has integrity and is created by East and South East Asian artists. CAN is looking to receive proposals for new work or a new development of existing work.

It can span any discipline, and explore one or more of the following questions:

● What are Chinese diverse diasporic voices?
● What is ‘Chinese’? How do we challenge the cliches associated with the word?
● What constitutes Chinese and Chinese Arts in this day and age?
● How do we reflect brave and uncompromising perspectives from the Chinese diaspora and/or its descendants?
● How do we represent ourselves / see ourselves?
● How do we push boundaries?
● How do we dream of our future?
● How do we empower ourselves or find the voice to change the future of our society?
● How can we encourage our diaspora to be involved in ALL aspects of society?

Each Commission will be expected to have a clear producing, marketing and production framework in place to deliver the work. This will evolve in partnership with CAN, but be expected to be led by the commission recipient.

We will especially look to award one commission to a non-London based ESEA artist.

Commission Support

Each commission is for £2,500, with additional producing, production and marketing support as follows:

● Input from CAN’s Artistic Team into further funding applications
● Working closely with CAN’s Artistic Team and Festival Production Manager to realise the work
● Work presented at CAN Festival with a performance fee
● Working closely with CAN’s Marketing Manager to promote the work
● Working closely with CAN’s Marketing Manager on audience development before and during the festival
● The final work will be documented by CAN, either through image and/or video as agreed with the commission recipient, and will be shared with the recipient

Application Details

● A proposal that is no more than 2 A4 pages outlining your project, including what you want CAN to support and why, a brief history of your practice, how you plan to deliver your project, and any funding/ partnerships already in place
● A preliminary budget, including expenditure and income
● 2 links which show your work (eg video documentation, website, images – for video links, it needs to be under 5 minutes)

CAN is looking to receive proposals for new work or a new development of existing work. If your work already exists and you do not expect to undertake any further development please send us a proposal separately to: artist@kakilang.org.uk

Commission application open: 5 May 2022
Commission application deadline: 27 May 2022

Please submit your application here.

If you have any queries relating to the application, or would like to book an advice session relating to your application, please email: artist@kakilang.org.uk