A gallery-wide takeover inspired by Virginia Woolf
Join us as we take over Tate St Ives in response to Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings.
Check out film, performance, music, workshops and more as we activate the gallery and respond to key themes in Virginia Woolf’s work.
Open Call: A Room of Your Own
As part of the event, we’re inviting young people aged 16–25 to submit video inspired by Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own.
We want a 30 second video insight or ‘window’ into your room or a space you have a connection to.
A curated selection of submissions will be featured in a participatory video installation at the U Studio event on March 17th at Tate St Ives.
Please make sure your video is:
- 30 seconds in length
- Landscape
- Shot in one static position
How to submit
Submit your artwork via email to collectives@tate.org.uk. If your submission is over 5MB in size please use WeTransfer using the same email address. Along with your submission file, you will need to include the following information in your email:
- Your name
- Your date of birth
- Your contact email address
- Your location (nearest Town/City and Country)
Extended deadline for submissions Sunday 18 February 2018, 21.00 GMT
Submissions can include audio, but please be aware that due to projecting a number of works in the space your audio may not always be heard.
We are unable to accept submissions that exceed a file size of 1GB of data or 30 seconds in length.
If you have any questions about the submissions processes please email us at collectives@tate.org.ukand we’ll do our best to help.
If your submission is chosen we will notify you at the email address you provide, by Monday 19 February. We are only able to contact successful applicants. We welcome everyone to the event, but are unable to provide transport or accommodation for you to attend 🙂
Terms and conditions
From the entries submitted Tate will, at its discretion, select those to be shown in the display as part of U Studio, on the Tate website, and on any other of Tate’s approved partner platforms.
The open call for submission is aimed at all young people aged 16–25.
Don’t be rude. Anything defamatory or obscene won’t be accepted. Your submission must be suitable for under 18s.
Anything you submit must be your own original work. If your content contains other’s material e.g. images, video, music etc you must have obtained the necessary permissions to use the material. Get someone’s consent before showing an image of their face.
If you want your name to be displayed on the artwork, you must include it as part of the submitted work; it will not be added later. We will include a full list of selected submissions in the exhibition space.
Tate won’t use your content for commercial purposes but we may use your content to promote our platform or project, such as:
- On social media, eg Facebook and Twitter
- On our websites
- In-gallery at Tate sites
- On printed materials eg leaflets promoting the open call and other projects for young people
By sharing and uploading any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio-visual material) for this open call, you will be sharing your content with Tate who will be able to use your material in the following ways:
You agree to grant to Tate, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants, for Tate services in any existing or future media worldwide (including on Tate’s website accessed by international users) and in perpetuity. You waive any moral rights in your contribution (except where you have integrated your name as part of the artwork, as mentioned above), in order to permit Tate to edit your material if necessary. You also grant to Tate the right to sub-license these rights to approved partners.
Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it, including licensing that material to other websites.
If you do not grant Tate the permission set out above on these terms please do not submit or share your contribution with us. By submitting your contribution with us, you are deemed to accept these Terms and Conditions.
Before you submit your work, please read sections 4 and 7-11 of Tate’s website terms of use.
