Salamèche

Over the years of our collaborative practice, we have written hundreds of applications to arts organisations, requesting funding, mentoring, producing support and opportunities to present our work. We have gathered all these applications together in publicly-accessible e-book, It’s Not a Competition.

The primary context and support of our practice is our networks of artist peers. We hope that publishing these applications can mitigate the culture of competition that can arise when artists are pitted against one another for limited resource. Beyond simply offering peers example texts that might be of use when they are writing their own bids, we hope this gesture of transparency can relieve some of the shame and desperation that can cloud such individual requests for support, which are overwhelmingly met with rejection.

Also, we think it’s funny to expose the things we say about our work when seeking support. Take at look at wince at our grandest claims, most sycophantic prostrations, and emptiest promises.

Digital Publication: You can download a copy by clicking here.

Last updated: October 2024.