Light Night - Site Specific

This year on Light Night we are excited to be introducing Participatory Budgeting to our Expression of Interest process.

The Expression of Interest form can be downloaded from http://www.lightnightleeds.co.uk/8_GettingInvolved.html

We've expanded the form slightly, asking people to detail how their project will meet each of our funding criteria, which are,
Site Specific
Durational
Immersive
New work from Leeds

Once we've got all the EOIs in (deadline 30th April) we'll be calling meetings for everyone who wants to be involved in Light Night whereby you will be expected to score each other's proposals according to these criteria. The amount that each project recieves will be dictated by these scores.

With this in mind, we'd like to use this forum to explain each of the criteria, for you to ask us questions about the criteria, and to discuss with each other how your projects might fit into the criteria. Also we'd like you to use the forum to discuss if you think the criteria are right, whether or not this is what you want from Light Night... All this discussion will serve to help us plan events better in future, more according to what you as artists and audience want and need.

Our definition for Site-Specific is...
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Take the location into account while planning and creating your artwork and think about how to use that space to make people think differently about it. (The Light Night strapline for 2009 was 'See Things Differently').

We like work which is ‘about’ the room, building, street, or city where it is shown. Guided tours which are half truth and half lies have been popular. Or site specific work can respond to a place by inverting people’s expectations of it, by putting the unexpected or out of place in there. For example: an audio recording of wild bird song in a courtroom, a place associated with the imprisonment and the taking away of people’s freedom.

What do you think?