The Collision Project is an initiative by screen service that facilitates collaborative pairings between early career artists. It celebrates the open-ended, playful and process-driven experimentation of artists working in tandem.
We are delighted to be running it again this year in special partnership with STARLING in Limerick!
To enter the 2025 collaboration pool, we invite interested artists to complete the Google Form linked below.
Three pairs will be carefully curated by a four-artist panel. Pairs will be matched based on thoughtful commonalities and exciting divergences.
Pairs will be connected virtually, and encouraged to undertake a remote collaboration over four months beginning in March 2025, working at a self-directed pace.
Pairs will have developmental support from the curators and the STARLING team. Virtual group meetings will be facilitated monthly to foster community and provide critical feedback.
Each pair will develop a collaborative artwork. These works will be installed at a week-long exhibition at STARLING in Limerick in July 2025.
Fees:
€500 fee for each artist
€155 production fee for each pair
Up to €65 euro in travel support for each artist
This project is open to all mediums. Artists must be willing to embrace a media element due to the nature of virtual collaboration.
If you applied last year, we would love to hear from you again!
If you require any assistance or access arrangements to complete your application, please contact us at thescreenservice@gmail.com
Apply via Google form: here
Deadline: 21/02/2025 at 5pm
If you wish to use an alternative to Google forms, please download the questions here, and send your answers in a PDF to: thescreenservice@gmail.com
STARLING is a platform and threshold for both local and international artists and projects. Emerging out of a vacant shop in the historic medieval quarter of Limerick city, STARLING is led by artist-curators Ailbhe W. Drohan (Ireland) and Teresa Collins (Ireland / Aotearoa New Zealand).
We believe in supporting critical and thought-provoking contemporary artists and projects. Our approach to programming values non-traditional modes of exhibition making, collaborative process and community focused relationship building.
screen service is a service-oriented artist collective supporting early career artists with screen-led practices in or from Ireland. We are committed to providing a platform for experimentation and connectivity.
We curate and facilitate projects that encourage the development of media practice across various manifestations. We are based online, and work with artists in Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The model we sustain is artist-run, peer-led and reliant on and propelled by the creative practitioners we work with.
Curated by Ellen O’Connor, Bronagh Gallagher, Alex Keatinge and Olivia Normile.
Visual design by Cian Pawle-Bates.
Drawing by Olivia Normile.
This project is funded by the Arts Council and in partnership with STARLING, Limerick.
