Ongoing Open Call

Snapshot is a permanent display programme of sequentially changing creative outputs. It provides an impression of each participant’s practice located in a liminal space in the School, where visitors only spend fleeting moments travelling to other spaces or waiting to enter classes.  

The project is the result of an ongoing open call to all visiting researchers and practitioners, staff and students of all levels on all programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design. It presents incomplete, transitory views of research-and-practice-in-progress; a window into a brief moment in time of a given academic year. Utilising redundant gallery furniture stored in the public space of the reception corridor, the displays are selected on aesthetic criteria of how to best animate the space they occupy, projecting forwards in time the potential each work holds. As the year progresses a living archive will develop on the concrete pillar next to each pair of vitrines, providing information about past and current displays.  

 

This is an ongoing open call, meaning any student, staff, or visiting researcher can submit their work at any point in the academic year. Additionally, if you have submitted previously at any point and wish to update us on progression in your research and practice, we welcome you to contact us again.  

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In your submission we ask you to please include a 200-word explanation along with 5-10 images of your research and practice. Please also keep in mind the dimensions of the vitrines, which are approx. 19 x 54 inches. We unfortunately cannot accept any digital work, however you can of course submit prints of digital media. 

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The type of work that we are looking for does not need to be finished work. You can include progress work such as drawings, sketches, plans, note taking or research (even including books or articles you are looking at). We just want an insight into your interests and ideas in your practice.  

 

To submit your work please email H.M.Leaper@ljmu.ac.uk or DM @exhibitionstudiesma on Instagram.