STTA: Space Time Tools Advice

IOU Creation Centre welcomes applications from any artists, organisations or students who would like support in getting a project off the ground.

STTA: Space Time Tools Advice

STTA is IOU’s artistic development programme for individuals or groups practising any discipline who are interested in IOU’s approach to making. It is designed to help realise projects that are in development by providing support in the form of studio space, IOU staff time, workshop tools and advice from IOU arts professionals or a combination of all four.

For 50 years, IOU has developed a distinctive specialism in translating ideas into tangible, often large-scale interdisciplinary works. This has required a deep understanding of both artistic intention and material process, how a conceptual spark becomes an engineered structure or a technological experience. We have often translated one discipline into another, sound into sculpture, biography into wood carving, history into geography. By opening our workshops, equipment, and expert network to resident artists we want to share this approach to practice.

The STTA programme is fluid and can be adapted to your project and the funding you seek. 

‘Why STTA is Central To The IOU Creation Centre’, by IOU Creative Director, Richard Warburton

 

Guidelines for Applicants 

  • IOU’s core purpose is to support new, surprising, original productions exploring the intersection between art, engineering, performance and technology. 
  • IOU’s work is experimental in concept and content and often presented in new and unusual ways for audiences to experience.  
  • We aim to reach underserved audiences in the local area and nationally. 
  • We support and encourage young and mid-career artists and welcome new and underrepresented artists through our work. 
  • Through Space Time Tools Advice and IOU’s other support activities, we aim to develop  artistic talent in the arts sector helping individual artists, groups of collaborators and arts companies to produce the best work they can.

  • Develop your ideas
  • Develop and produce your new piece of work
  • Develop your own art practice
  • Something completely new we haven’t thought of
  • Co-produce and present your work

IOU is open all year around to any artist or organisation who requires project support.  Your idea can be at an early stage when we may be able to advise you on next steps or more developed, perhaps having some development funding attached to your project that is for working with IOU on the STTA programme. 

IOU also scouts for projects that the company may wish to help produce and tour in a more involved collaboration. Please let us know if you would like IOU to be involved with your project as a co-production.

IOU will help build an IOU support team with you that most suits what you are trying to achieve.  This may be just someone to feed back at important moments in the works development or provide key members of your creation team, eg. director, technician, producer, maker etc.

Installations, painting, sculpture, film, photography, animation, dance, digital art, virtual worlds, music/sound, location/site specific art, landscape art, performance poetry, performance art, street art and performance art, architecture and art forms we’ve missed from this list or haven’t thought of yet.

In all these art forms we are looking for something new and special in your ideas and for artists with talent and potential.

Please note:  There are some types of work that we have great respect for, but are unlikely to be accepted for the STTA programme.  This is because they don’t feature in IOU’s work or we don’t have the facilities to support them, or they are better supported by other institutions and organisations:

  • Plays for regular theatre venues
  • Scripts or art forms that rely heavily on dialogue
  • Circus skills
  • Work intended for commercial or popular culture

If you have a project or idea and are interested in this opportunity to develop it, use the form below to get in touch.

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Contact our Producer, Lydia Murrãy

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The team were very helpful in providing support. Before the event IOU provided invaluable contacts, who helped bring our work together. During our stay IOU took a strong interest in the work and provided some very useful technical knowledge. We hope to go back in the future.
John Bonner

IOU's belief in our vision and commitment to supporting emerging artists like us made a significant impact on the development of our piece. Their contribution went beyond the physical spaces and extended to the invaluable mentorship, feedback, and encouragement they provided throughout the creative process. Their guidance ensured that we stayed true to our artistic intentions while pushing ourselves to new artistic heights.

Sound Designer Helios Lyons

We are immensely grateful for IOU Theatre's support in bringing our project to life. Without their belief in our work and the opportunity they provided, "Instructions on How to Be Alone" would not have evolved into the transformative and captivating experience we envisioned. IOU Theatre's partnership has been invaluable, and we look forward to further collaboration and growth in the future.

Creative Producer Emily Lloyd

Being able to work within IOU Creation Centre's spaces was a game-changer. It allowed us to explore and experiment & pushing the boundaries of our artistic disciplines. The collaboration with IOU became a catalyst for our artistic growth, opening doors to new possibilities and sparking fresh ideas.

Creative Producer Emily Lloyd

Currently in the IOU Studio

Introducing the artists currently working with us in the IOU studio. Each producing their own unique works, they present a diverse range of creative output