JERWOOD/FVU AWARDS 2017
Neither One Thing or Another
DEADLINE: 11 MARCH 2016
The Jerwood/FVU Awards are major awards for moving-image artists in the first five years of their practice.
The fourth edition of the awards is called Neither One Thing or Another is open to applicants from 12 January – 11 March 2016. Two artists will be selected to receive a £20,000 commission each which will show at Jerwood Space, London in 2017. The selection panel includes Steven Bode, Director, FVU; Duncan Campbell, artist and Turner Prize 2014 winner; Cliff Lauson, Curator, Hayward Gallery; Amy Sherlock, Reviews Editor, Frieze and Sarah Williams, Head of Programme, Jerwood Visual Arts.
To date the Jerwood/FVU Awards have endowed funds of £152,000 to support ten of the most exciting new talents to emerge on the contemporary art scene: Ed Atkins, Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anne Haaning, Emma Hart, Karen Kramer, Naheed Raza, Marianna Simnett, Corin Sworn and Alice May Williams.
The Theme
We live in a time of transition: where some of the certainties that used to shape the world around us are starting to blur, or split apart. It can sometimes feel as if we are between one phase or place and another, without fully belonging to either one. As an expression of our uncertain contemporary standpoint, to be ‘neither one thing or another’ can imply a sense of falling between two stools. But it can also be interpreted much more positively: unaffiliated and unattached; resistant to being superficially bracketed, while itching to define oneself differently. Either way, the various meanings of the phrase speak to a prevailing contemporary impulse while hinting at an underlying ambiguity and insecurity that is equally symptomatic of today.