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 22 May
Thursday 17 July
Thursday 27 November
The call is open on a rolling basis, closing a fortnight before each event.
Applications for 22 May are closed. Deadline for 17 July is 2 July, 12noon.
PLEASE NOTE: The focus of Social Experiment is Live Art. It is not a dance platform, and the space available is not large and is not suitable for group dance pieces, nor for large physical performance groups.
The priority is for Greater Manchester artists, we will consider applications from other North West based artists but not from other regions.
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