Light Night - Immersive

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 of 'Immersive' is...

Where possible, try to avoid a separation between the 'audience/stage' and 'artist/audience'. We prefer pieces to be interactive or responsive to the audience, or be participatory in the sense of more than one artist being involved in the piece. This could literally mean a theatrical performance where the audience can walk or sit in amongst the performers as they perform. Or it could mean a piece which is activated by audience interaction (for example encouraging people to have conversations with strangers using yoghurt pot and string telephones).

Again, this is harder for some art forms than for others, but do talk your ideas through and we suggest different ways for it to work. It is difficult for projections to be immersive, for example, but the projection could include work developed from participatory workshops, or sharing the projection infrastructure with other artists who would respond to a shared theme.

What do you think?