Artsadmin announced today an open call for five artists' commissions worth a total of £100,000 to create a major series of site-sensitive works for Bethnal Green Old Town Hall. The building used to be the headquarters of the pre-1965 metropolitan borough and was Tower Hamlets Town Hall for a time until the borough decentralised itself in the 1980s.
The town hall is being converted into a 99-room hotel, with a high-end restaurant, bar, conference and meeting rooms. The building features late Victorian and Edwardian architectural and design features and is being beautifully restored, as well as featuring an additional new floor. The architect, rare, is designing and bringing this historical building into the 21st century while remaining sensitive to its original features. The Town Hall will open in Spring 2010. Artsadmin will commission a number of artists to create art-works responding in sensitive and novel ways to both the building itself and its relation to local context and history. http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/opportunities/bursary.php?id=12 -- Olga P Massanet ·························· www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
