<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We've had a schedule change for the Expo which means we are able to extend the deadline for a couple of weeks.</div><div class="">The timeline is a little more forgiving with a separate production period and a new launch date in October 2020.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May I also point out that are two levels of application fee, the second of which is €0.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards,</div><div class="">Julian</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Fusion Expo Commissions</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Fusion Expo Commission is now open for applications, with three awards of up to €4,000 each available for the commission fee and production.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Context </b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Much contemporary art on the subject of Nuclear Energy focuses on issues relating to Nuclear Fission; post-Fukushima in particular. This work complements and continues practices from the Cold </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">War and Chernobyl disaster eras. Growing criticalities around the </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Anthropocene have provided a new scale to these practices,</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> the decay rates of radioactive waste inseparable from contexts of deep time, or resourcing and supply chains operating in colonial contexts of extractive and polluting economies.</span><br style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Apart from a small number photographic projects and the Fusion Now! exhibition in 2007, Fusion as an imaginary has largely been overlooked in the arts. With the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) scheduled for first plasma in 2025, Fusion energy research is entering a crucial phase, it is timely to expand artistic practices around Nuclear Aesthetics and related fields of enquiry to incorporate Nuclear Fusion together with its histories and dreams, its social, political and ecological terrains.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">The Commissions</b></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Finetuned is offering 3 commissions for EU resident artists, each of up €4,000, to create work for EUROfusion's Fusion Expo, a touring exhibition representing the major outreach activity of the European fusion research consortium*. The exhibition will tour prominent museums among the member countries over the next five to ten years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We seek to commission new works that directly engage with Nuclear Fusion in the context of future energy. These will be exhibited with a number of pre-existing works by artists including Semiconductor, and Alistair McClymont, and a fourth commission pre-allocated to Jol Thomson. Submitted proposals will be selected by a panel comprised of curators, artists and EUROfusion stakeholders.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To ensure gender balance across commissions, we particularly invite applications from women artists.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Application Details</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></div></div><div class=""><b class="">Application Fee:</b> <span class="">€30 for applicants in full-time employment.€0 for others.</span></div><div class=""><b class="">Experience required:</b> emerging to experienced.</div><div class=""><b class="">Students eligible:</b> depends on experience.</div><div class=""><b class="">Location:</b> EU </div><div class=""><b class="">Who:</b> EU resident artists working with related sciences, future energies and imaginaries</div><div class=""><b class="">When:</b> Activity taking place between 14 December 2019 – 30 June 2020.</div><div class=""><b class="">Payments:</b> Commission of up €4,000 (25% commission and 75% production).</div><div class=""><b class="">Deadline:</b> 23.00 CET Friday 22 November 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">How To Apply</b></div><div class="">See the Commission Brief PDF for full details.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Commission Brief</b>: <a href="https://www.finetuned.org/eurofusion-expo-commissions.html" class="">https://www.finetuned.org/eurofusion-expo-commissions.html</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Employer:</b> Finetuned Limited</div><div class=""><b class="">Contact:</b> <a href="mailto:expo_commissions@finetuned.org" class="">expo_commissions@finetuned.org</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Deadline:</b> 23.00 CET, 22.11.2019**</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*EUROfusion supports and funds fusion research activities on behalf of the European Commission’s Euratom programme. It is funded through Horizon 2020 and the member organisations. More information is available at <a href="https://www.eurofusion.org/" class="">https://www.eurofusion.org</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">**The timescales for the exhibition production period and launch have altered allowing more time for the open call. </div></div></body></html>