Artists

The Bang Centre team wants to focus collaboration on the quality of the relationship, exchange and work. An evaluation process was therefore established at separate times.

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Criteria for evaluating applications submitted by the Registration Form

1. The quality and clarity of the artistic approach.
2. The quality of recent artistic production.
3. The artist’s vision.
4. The relevance and lucidity of the reflection concerning their professional background.
5. The match between the candidates’ perceived needs and the support and resources offered by Bang.
6. Fairness in the choice of candidates selected: geographical origin, gender diversity, Indigenous artists, artists from cultural diversity, professional status, graduate university graduation projects (master’s degree)

Criteria for evaluating applications by video teleconference

1. The quality of communication between the artist and the Evaluation Committee, based on mutual respect and listening. 
2. The artist’s interest in a collaborative relationship with the Bang Centre team.
3. The realistic availability of the artist in line with his project, ensuring a real commitment to the process.
4. The presence of an opportunity in the artist’s artistic research or in his professional career. The objective is to support the right project at the right time.
5. Matching the needs identified by the candidates with the support and resources offered by Bang.
6. The artist’s professionalism in his approach to creation.
7. The artist’s ability to design and plan his projects.
8. The feasibility of the proposed project.
9. The realism of the artist’s expectations of the Bang centre.
10. The artist’s openness to exchanges about his work and interest in an external perspective, oriented towards critical reflection.

Pre-project evaluation criteria

1. The quality of the artistic project
2. The impact on the artist’s professional career
3. The feasibility of the project : budget, technique, calendar of events, materials, spaces, internal resources of the Bang Centre, external resources and partnerships, participants.
4. The nature of the commitment required from the artist and the Bang Centre team
5. The impact on the development of the artist’s professional network
6. The communicative impact of the project for the artist and the Bang Centre
7. The strategic impact for the artist and for the Bang centre
8. A balance in the diversity of projects : research-creation residencies, pre-production, production, diffusion, publication, networking
9. Diversity in supported artistic practices : installations, sculptures, painting, digital arts, literature, etc.

The following are examples of eligible projects that are presented for illustrative purposes. These are examples of collaboration with artists who use some of Bang’s support and resources.

Example 1: Need for space and time

An artist has completed the production of an installation work. The assembly of this installation is complex and must be carried out in situ. The assembly requires weeks of work, requisitioning exhibition rooms over a long period of time. The work must be assembled by the artist herself and technical assistance could not accelerate the work. 

Often, editing periods are short and limited in arts organizations whose schedules are sometimes defined and planned for the next two years. In this context, the Bang centre is ready to make the exhibition space available to the artist for long periods of time. To this end, the Bang centre retains flexibility in the logistics of its programming to better meet the needs of artists.

Example 2: Need for expertise and equipment not available in the art world

An artist wants to have access to specialized equipment available only in a technology transfer centre affiliated with a CEGEP. The Bang Centre develops the partnership, ensures that the objectives of all stakeholders are taken into account, and bridges the gap between the artist and the technology transfer centre team to ensure the best possible communication. 

The borrowed equipment requires to be operated by a person with specific technical expertise. As part of the project, the equipment must be mobile to be used in several locations outside the city. After using the equipment to collect data, he collaborates with researchers to explore the possible uses and visualizations of this data.

Example 3: The beginning of the end, starting with the broadcast

An artist wishes to display a work already created in the Bang Centre’s exhibition rooms. This exhibition is the conclusion of a creative cycle for the artist and this placement allows the artist to begin his next creative cycle. This diffusion becomes the starting point for a research-creation residency, which will then lead to the pre-production stage and the evaluation of the needs of this new creation cycle. Then, the Bang Centre and the artist will be able to determine if they wish to carry out the project and engage in a longer-term collaboration.

Example 4: Mediation and relational dynamics

An artist wishes to work with people with specific profiles in collaboration with health professionals. The Bang Centre can first build a bridge with health partners to explain the Bang Centre’s mission. Our team can then contextualize contemporary artistic practices to ensure a clear understanding of the nature of the project and validate the ethical framework of the human approach in the project. 

Bang creates a relevant and credible context to support the artist during working meetings with partners in order to ensure an ongoing dialogue. Once stakeholders are well informed and involved according to their expertise, relational work with people with specific profiles can begin, relying on the support of health professionals.

In this context, the Bang Centre is responsible for mediating between the arts and health sectors. He or she mediates between the artist and the partners and then coordinates the mediation with the project participants. All this takes place in close collaboration with the artist by sharing the work according to the roles of each one, as defined during the pre-production stage. 

Example 5: Administrative and legal procedures

An artist designs a work that will be displayed outside, downtown, in a place not dedicated to art. This project involves a significant canvassing of the municipality to obtain the necessary authorizations. In order to achieve this, the Bang Centre produces a presentation document, meets with the Service des arts et de la culture de Ville Saguenay, meets with the district municipal councillor, ensures the support of users of the outdoor space and owners of adjacent buildings, and ensures that the urban planning department has all the necessary information to support the process, validates with the fire department the conformity of the project with the emergency plans, plans logistics and municipal services to ensure proper space for the work (electricity, earthworks, etc.), meets with the various commissions of elected officials involved in the project to obtain their support, works with insurers to protect the public as well as the work, the artist and the Bang Centre.

Example 6: A curator wants to create a group exhibition

A curator wants to create a group exhibition with 25 artists from different generations and from the same city. While the curator works with the artists to select the works, ensure the vision of the exhibition and write texts to accompany the exhibition, the Bang Centre supplements the project’s funding by obtaining the required subsidies, coordinates the transportation of the works, plans communications and promotion, produces 25 video capsules of interviews with the artists, hires technicians, plans the exhibition’s assembly, prepares the opening and manages the printing of cultural mediation material.

Registration Form

IMPORTANT: The purpose of the registration form is to better understand your needs or thoughts. Feel free to talk to us frankly about the strengths and weaknesses of your journey, your trials and errors, your needs and your questions.

SUGGESTION: It may be advantageous to compose the texts in a text editor and then copy and paste them into the form. This will ensure that you don’t lose your writing work.