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How we work.

We want to CONNECT you through long distance pairings and groupings, PROMOTE and make further visible your work and develop RESEARCH around remoteness, rurality, ecology, territory, mobility and postcoloniality.

aTE develops networks of selected artists and writers who live remotely/rurally or who feel themselves to be ‘remote’ for other reasons, disconnected from the usual networks which sustain artistic practice. The work created by artist members either alone or in their pairings or groups can be put forward and submitted to our ‘archives’ (both digital and paper based) where curators will select work for the inclusion in exhibitions and publications on a rolling basis. On joining you will have been asked to submit a ‘view’ which automatically will be added to our travelling archive with the images having been giclee printed at a6 size on rag paper. Wherever the #aTEviews archive travels, you can assume your image is included. For other shows with guest curators we will contact you if your work has been selected for inclusion; generally the more work you make us aware of and contribute to the ‘archive’ the more opportunities we will be able to consider you for.

We can also help you promote your work and research if it is relevant to our remit, through social media and blog posts and would like members to feel able to pitch ideas for the blog at any time.

aTE Groups

Our main research group ‘Transnationalism, mobility and borders’ is a collaboration between aTE, the Centre for mobilities Research and LICA (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art). This group involves reading groups, talks and is an emerging community of research students, academics and aTE members. You can take part through Zoom. The group covers topics such as mobility and immobility, tourism, climate change, walking practice, borders and populism, migration, property, land and ownership and colonial legacies. The group calls into question ideas of mobility in light of the recent pandemic and asks how cultural practicioners can traverse ‘place’ in new and radical ways.

We also have a number of self running research groups which run through Discord.

If you want to join an aTE group then you need to be a member - Use groups to share work, research, plan exhibitions, develop support networks and make connections. Groups are administered by us and usually run through Discord but the sucess of each group is dependent on the active participation of group members. We recomend not joining too many groups at once, perhaps two at most and having Discord notifications turned on on your computer.

Development of your practice.

As a member you are entitled to a 10 percent discount off our aTE Incubator sessions which can act as a suplement to the general programme, these sessions are designed to develop and deepen an artist’s practice in relation to place, territory, ecology - these are bespoke tutorial programmes over six weeks delivered on line and taught by academics Gudrun Filipska, Lizzie Philps, Laura Davidson and Proffesor Jim Mooney. Between us we have much experience teaching art and theory, from walking arts, art and digital cultures, feminist theory to Continental philosophy and ethics.

aTE agency.

Every two years we select two aTE artists to work with intensively towards an exhibition and publication. You can put your self forward for this, details will be sent in the newsletter. The next artists will be selected in January 2024. See current aTE agency artists.

Residencies.

We have previously run a Residency in Sustainable Practice which will re-emerge in the next few years as we secure partners and venues. We are focusing on alternative models such as our Residency by Correspondence and developing aTE Virtual.

Resourses.

Resourses Pages this is an evolving resourse, e mail us and let us know if you have anything to add (interesting residencies, support for artists, online articles etc, or things online you have had published). This is not a book list so online sources only please, although texts embedded as PdF’s are fine.

Mailing List.

Members Mailing List Make sure you are signed up to receive call outs, exhibition info etc.

Connect.

Connect with us on Instagram using the hashtags #remoteruralradical and #artsterritoryexchange, we also have a Facebook page.We are endeavouring to become independent of META Platforms and are currently developing a Ham Radio network. Contact Gudrun@artsterritoryexchange.com with questions about any of the above.