A new gathering for anyone interested in Live Art and contemporary performance to meet, chat, and try ideas out.
If you’re a Greater Manchester artist — this is your chance to test out a short performance, intervention, or durational work in front of an informal audience.
If you’re an audience member looking for something a little bit different — this is your chance to take a few risks and meet some artists in our social experiment.
Social Experiment will be a free and informal, semi-regular evening event at Manchester's Contact — and the dates for 2025 are:
Thursday 6 February
Thursday 22 May
Thursday 17 July
Thursday 27 November
The call is open on a rolling basis, closing a fortnight before each event — i.e. the deadline for 6 February is 23 January.
To apply to Social Experiment:
1. Complete and submit the proposal and monitoring forms (the proposal form is not as long as google makes it look!).
(Direct
form links: https://forms.gle/hdLD23WbC78NR8iQ9 + https://forms.gle/qtMvWxcZqB2XCsJ76)
2. Include some video and images if you have them — upload to your own
YouTube/Vimeo or similar page, and include the link in the proposal form;
alternatively send via www.wetransfer.com (or similar) to socex@habmcr.org
NB we'd appreciate if everyone could use the online form; if you have significant difficulties please contact socex@habmcr.org for an offline version.
For more information about the venue and Space 0, please read Contact's Info + Visiting Company Handbook.
Social Experiment presented by Word of Warning + Contact; produced by hÅb; supported by Contact and using public funding by Arts Council England.
Enquiries: socex@habmcr.org · wordofwarning.org/socialexperiment