Artraker Biennnial Award
Overview
Artraker offers three Awards of £2500 each for completed work or work that can be further developed. The three award winners and artists/organisations that make it to the final round of Jury deliberations will then be invited to join the Artraker network (“the Artrakers”).
Submissions for 2017 were considered in relation to three award categories:
The Artraker Award for Challenging the Narrative
This award is for art that challenges dominant narratives on violence and peace, and/or enables a different and deeper understanding to be gained on issues pertaining to violence, conflict, upheaval, change, and peace.
The Artaker Award for Healing the Void
This award is for art that promotes inclusion, reveals how space excludes and marginalises, and poses questions about how our societies are constructed and managed to either heal and create community, or divide, wound, and alienate.
The Imagine Peace! Artraker Award
This award is for art that helps leaders at different levels imagine new pathways to peace and alternatives to violence. It is for art that stimulates creativity in leadership, helps foster or encourage visionary leadership, and contributes insight into imagining new ways of radically altering the dynamics that lead to violence.
Entries are judged by an international panel of experts from disciplines of arts, conflict, culture, politics and peace. They look for experimentation and engagement, audacity, change and capacity to inspire.