AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

CALL FOR THE POST OF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is an open platform for
researching, producing, disseminating and interpreting cultural forms that
emerge from the creative use of new technologies.

LABoral is seeking an Artistic Director who is a professional with broad
experience in the field of the arts, with international prestige, and ready
to continue developing a project that is unique and pioneering by
definition, in accordance with its strategic plan.

REQUIREMENTS

- Holder of a university degree, with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree or
equivalent.

- Demonstrated extensive knowledge and experience in the field of
contemporary art, technology, and industrial creation.

- Demonstrated outstanding trajectory and experience in the various areas of
contemporary artistic practise: production, research, and dissemination.

- Creativity, a global and innovative vision, dynamism, and initiative as
demonstrated in curated exhibitions, finished projects, published texts,
papers at conferences, and participation in roundtables devoted to
contemporary art practices and industrial creation.

- Demonstrated thorough knowledge of art systems (criticism, market,
artists, associations, institutions) as well as new emerging models of
contemporary cultural production.

- To have a demonstrable network of national and international contacts
(with particular emphasis on Europe) in the field of art, technology, and
contemporary industrial creation, in order to be able to contribute to
maintaining the position of LABoral as a centre of international projection
and to develop an outstanding activity programme in close collaboration with
other institutions, so the Centre can be a leader in international
collaborative projects.

- Be capable of advancing knowledge and programming exchanges with similar
or complementary centres, institutions, or organisations in order to
position and integrate the Centre within local, national, and international
collaborative networks.

- Accredited know-how and experience in the field of research and
development and business, social, scientific and technological innovation
and in the creation and management of frameworks for interdisciplinary
collaboration.

- To have ability to communicate expert knowledge, and to promote the
involvement and participation of diverse audiences.

- Accredited ability and experience in proposing, implementing and
developing lines of collaboration with the context of the local and regional
community in which LABoral is located, with the purpose of cooperating with
and advancing it.

- Knowledge of digital communication tools (web, social networks, etc.) and
ability to get the most out of them within the LABoral field of action
(artistic purposes, archives, mediation and dynamisation).

- Ability to represent LABoral across all spheres in order to develop and
expand internal and external relationship networks.

- Good communication and teamwork skills.

- Demonstrated skills in communication, negotiation, planning, and
management.

- Ability to adapt to diverse circumstances (artistic, socio-economic,
and/or institutional) and to contribute solutions to adjust to each of them
while adhering to the spirit and philosophy of the Centre.

- Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the network of agents who may
contribute economic and cultural resources to the institution, as well as
the capacity to develop alliances and strategies in collaboration with
Senior Management that will attract, engage with and enrich this network of
partners.

- Full command of English and Spanish.

FUNCTIONS

- The Artistic Director will lead the team in the management and
coordination of the activities to be developed by the Foundation. He/She
will be asked to examine the organization chart and propose to the Board of
Trustees the necessary changes to ameliorate the activities programme,
prioritizing the growth of the team and supporting them in order to achieve
ambitious objectives.

- Encouraging a team spirit to strengthen the institution, locally,
nationally and internationally.

- He/She will be held responsible for the activities' budget with the
support of the Managing Director. He/She will establish the budget and the
income scheme for the activities, using private and public resources for
this purpose. He/She will develop a dynamic fundraising strategy, trying to
involve corporations and individuals in order to balance the activities
programme and the resources that are put in his/her disposal.

- Responsible for developing a programming strategy for every area of the
Centre: production, education, research.

- Will lead the development of a theoretical discourse in the framework of
the direction and management project of LABoral and the conceptual lines
that derive from it.

- Will draw the conceptual lines of LABoral through production and research
projects, exhibitions, encounters, or any other activities.

- Will establish programming lines that will promote the integration of
activities in such a way that all areas (production, education, and
research) will complement one another.

- In the elaboration of the activities programme, the Artistic Director will
take into account the importance of contributing to the maintenance and
expansion of a broad community of users.

- The Artistic Director will be actively involved in the Asturian art scene
and think of strategies for its promotion, development through training,
integration, and other opportunities in the global context.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
Applications should be sent, before 00 am 2 June 2015, to the Secretary of
La Fundación D. José Pedreira, vía email to
secretario@laboralcentrodearte.org or by registered post in a sealed
envelope that, on the outside, visibly indicates
"CALL FOR THE POST OF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR to
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121. 33394 Gijón
Including:
Cover letter, CV
Application form
References

More information
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados 121 - 33394 Gijón (Asturias)
T +34 985 185 577 / F +34 985 337 355
info@laboralcentrodearte.org
www.laboralcentrodearte.org