Media Information and Guidelines – Spaced Programs

SPACED PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION

The following document includes some general information about Spaced, as well as some guidelines on how to promote the Spaced project you’re creating.

About Spaced

Spaced commissions context-responsive and socially engaged art projects across the whole of Western Australia and beyond. Our programs are grounded in artistic practices that explore everyday life issues and histories through a dialogue with diverse social groups. Through our programs, we create diverse and challenging experiences for artists and communities through contemporary visual art. 

For over 20 years, our organisation has been delivering programs that build connections between contemporary art and non‐specialist audiences, especially, but not exclusively, in regional and remote communities. The art projects we commission as part of these programs emerge from residencies that enable artists to engage with specific social, environmental, and historical contexts.

The current Spaced programs are:

Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23)
Know Thy Neighbour #3 is a provocation to the familiarity of place, asking Perth metropolitan communities to step outside of familiar engagements and locations. This program will seek out scenarios or contexts that defamiliarize and recontextualise ‘the local’ for audiences, communities, or the artists themselves, asking how we can meaningfully engage in the making of our cities. This program is presented with the UWA School of Design.
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Rural Utopias (2019-23)
Rural Utopias is a program of residencies and exhibitions in rural and remote Western Australia. Artists are developing new works alongside their host communities, responding to new social, environmental, and historical contexts.
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Over the years, some of our other major residency programs have included:

Know Thy Neighbour #2 (2017-19)
Moving beyond inner-city Perth, Know Thy Neighbour #2 invited 9 West Australian artists to develop and present projects in response to their own metropolitan neighbourhoods. Responding to their own locales in new and unexpected ways, the participating artists presented a series of public interventions, actions and events.
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Know Thy Neighbour #1 (2015-17)
A pilot series of Perth-based temporary context responsive art projects that commissioned 8 West Australian artists to create new projects that involved and engaged a variety of micro-communities in the suburbs surrounding metropolitan Perth.
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North by Southeast (2015-18)
A program centred on an artists’ exchange between Nordic and Australian visual artists. The program spanned three years and involved 11 artists – 5 Nordic artists in regional Western Australian communities and 6 Australian artists in Nordic communities.
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Future Recall (2013-15)
14 artists from 9 countries collaborated with 12 host comm unities, 11 of which were in regional Western Australia, and one in Bangalore, India.
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Art Out of Place (2010-12)
21 Australian and overseas artists and collectives were invited to live and work in one of 16 regional communities across Western Australia, each residency lasting 2 months.
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Guidelines for Crediting Spaced

Promoting projects commissioned by Spaced
Artists and partners posting content on their Spaced projects to their own websites or on social media must acknowledge Spaced.

Spaced is to be credited as follows:
• Spaced presents Rural Utopias / Know Thy Neighbour #3; or
• This project was commissioned by Spaced as a part of the Rural Utopias/ Know Thy Neighbour #3 program:
or
• A Spaced commission for Rural Utopias / Know Thy Neighbour #3.

Inclusion of the Spaced logo is optional.

Promoting projects on social media
Across our social media channels and website, we aim to feature, and cross-promote news and images related to the Rural Utopias and Know Thy Neighbour #3 programs, whilst also sharing news from our current and alumni artists and project partners.

We request that artists and partners posting on social media regarding their Spaced projects tag Spaced, and the Spaced program they are a part of (Rural Utopias / Know Thy Neighbour #3) using the following handles and hashtags.

This will allow Spaced to easily access these posts to cross-promote, share, and include in our reporting. Artists and partners can also send content directly to Spaced to cross-promote and share.

Instagram
Handle: @spacedwa
Hashtags: #spacedwa #ruralutopias #knowthyneighbour #knowthyneighbour3

Rural Utopias artist and partner handles (optional): @DLGSCarts @deptlgsc @DeptLGSC @AusGovArts @lotterywest @pacmtbarker @northmidlands @kimberleylandcouncil @wellsteadcrc @pingellycrc @margaretriverprintmaking @margaretrivermakers @raveaboutarts @goldfieldsartscentre @ngaarda_media @canneryartscentre @replantsfreo @lakegraceregionalartspace
@jodarbs @nthngy @alanavhunt @elizabethpedler @biancoprojects @georgmat @s_rod #tinastefanou #anatiquia @jackychengart @3rddegreeburnsunit #bennettmiller

Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist and partner tags (optional): @olgacironis @yaabinii @clairebushby @elhameshraghianhaakansson @wilhelm_wandering @neilaldum @city_of_canning @vicparkcc @cityofarmadalewa @melvillecity @townofvicpark @townofeastfremantle @uwa_design @deptlgsc

Facebook
Handle: @spacedias

Twitter
Handle: @spacedwa
Hashtags: #spacedwa #ruralutopias #knowthyneighbour3