is looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent communication and business development skills, and a passion for contemporary art and culture, to join our team.

is more than a gallery, it’s a space for questions – creating conversations and cultivating connections.

This year marks the beginning of a new era for one in which we will move away from being a ‘gallery’ in the traditional sense, to a dynamic space for conversations, debate and engagement. Each programme season will start with a question. We will then host a series of exhibitions and events that will focus on encouraging communication around this overarching question. These activities will take place at the Vulcan Building, in the Lighthouse and throughout the city, often in partnership with other arts and cultural organisations.

The successful candidate taking up the new post of Communications & Business Development Manager will be joining the team at an extremely exciting period in history and will have the unique opportunity to contribute to the organisation’s development at this most crucial stage.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 14 February 2012

Download application pack here:  PDF    Word Doc

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Call for Animateur

is transforming and we are looking for an artist to help this happen.  We aim to create a radical new model that moves us away from being a ‘gallery’ in the formal sense to a space for conversation, debate and engagement. We are looking to evolve a new approach that brings partners from many disciplines together with arts practice being the vehicle that facilities conversation around specific themes.

Our future programme will be based around conversations, and will comprise a series of projects that facilitate communication, focused on answering an overarching question.  Activities will take place within the existing building and throughout the city, where possible in partnership with other organisations and agencies.  The programme will enable the broader exchange of ideas and debate around issues, placing contemporary visual art alongside other art forms, popular culture, broader social or environmental issues and political perspectives.

Our first programme will focus on the question What next for culture in Portsmouth? Around this we want to invite our audience to join the conversation.  We want to use this question to explore the nature of arts organisations in the 21st century, how does this relate to the future of aspex and how we should change and develop, and more specifically talk about the future and potential of arts and cultural activity in Portsmouth (see also attached programme outline).

Through this period we will be engaging an artist to work as an animateur to respond to the following brief:
Animateur and Documenter Brief

Activities

• To devise and deliver a number of activities for the café space.  These activities will be made available throughout the programme Feb-May, to be used unsupervised by our general audience.
• To run a number of facilitated activities in the building designed to capture responses to the overarching question and encourage conversation.  This should result in the production of short video documentation, which can feed into a final conference event in April/May 2012.
• To contribute to the delivery of the final conference.

Documentation/Interpretation

• To produce a folder of associated interpretive materials relating to the seasons overarching question
• To photograph/video activities as they take place and upload this material to the website and other social media sites
• To keep a rolling slideshow of video/images on the screens in the gallery
• To look for other ways to disseminate photo/video
• To produce a blurb book documenting the process at the end of the exhibition

Fee £3,000 - based on 120 hours at a £25ph rate

Applications should be made in writing, including a CV and a short proposal responding to the brief (max 2 sides A4) and should be sent to Amy Lloyd, Participation & Learning Manager - amy@aspexorg.uk.  Proposals should include an outline of activities that can facilitate conversation with our audience members and attract new audiences to the gallery together.

Deadline for proposals: Tuesday 31 January

Interviews will take place week commencing 6 February for a mid/late February project start.