funding & finance

The Nonsite Collective submitted the following project summary and budget as part of its application for a grant from Southern Exposure's "Alternative Exposure Grant Program." Application filed June 29, 2007. For more information regarding this grant program, see http://soex.org/alternativeexposure.html

NONSITE COLLECTIVE: Alternative Exposure Grant Proposal

Summary: Nonsite is an emerging collective of Bay Area artists, poets, activists, archivists, independent scholars and non-traditional learners whose aim is to bring a range of communities into contact and conversation across disciplines, nourishing new forms of artistic collaboration, self-organized pedagogy, and public participation. The project’s organizational framework will include exhibitions, publications, performances, colloquia, readings, archives, study groups, and hybrid events, all of which will act as points of leverage for ongoing cultural engagement and social action.

Description: The Nonsite Collective responds to a comparative lack of sustained community response to, and use of, localized aesthetic production. To remedy this gap, Nonsite works across often hardened cultural boundaries—between disciplines and communities—to nourish self-organized engagement around art, understood as a social practice. Nonsite proposes a community-based model for engaging with culture, whereby creative works and their effects are not isolated and discrete but are rather linked up, elaborated on, and archived within a web of community responses and reuses. In this model, collectively proposed “curricula” become series of art and research events and an ever-evolving archive becomes the “object.” Read more

Members of the Nonsite Collective at our last open meeting agreed to pursue a revision and re-submission of our 2007 grant proposal for Southern Exposure gallery's Alternative Exposure grant fund.

Any site users who would like to participate in the revision are encouraged to read the grant description by following the linked text above, and make changes/additions/excisions to the text of the grant proposal found on this new workbook page. We will call another in-person meeting on either Monday, June 2nd, or Monday, June 9th in order to review the editorial suggestions and arrive at a final text for the proposal. Revisions to the workbook page can be included in that review process as long as they are made by Sunday, June 1st.

Please bear in mind that this text should be very brief, and should emphasize our work with visual artists and visual arts communities, but does not need to restrict itself to this work exclusively. Items for particular editorial attention include the descriptions of planned events, which were almost all prospective when last year's version of the proposal was written.