Re:view bursary anton hecht

Had a meet with Jane of VARC which is an organisation that works in and with rural communities in Northumberland. They have a base in High Green where they sometimes show work. They have a residency program and a project fund, though it is best to check the site as they may be changing the project fund and what they do. http://www.varc.org.uk/ . I had a good chat about digital work, and if that might fit into their schemes. She thought if the concept was right then there is no reason why digital work couldn’t be part of the rural art scene. It also started to make me think about residencies, the VARC residency scheme is for a year, and you have to live there, which made me wonder how this could work if you were married, with kids or had rented accommodation somewhere else. Just the practicalities. I also talked with her about on-line distribution, and I felt it could be exciting to make something very specific and local about a place and people but through it’s specificity it had a kind of universalisim that would mean it could work on-line and appeal to a large global audience, because they recognised something of themselves in the work made. So I think there is the possibility to use performance and video in a rural context and then distribute that to a wide audience as well as showing it locally.