The Experimental Art Foundation takes a proportion of its exhibition and projects programs from proposals and is always receptive to interesting ideas.

Applications are received and considered at any time. The exhibitions program, which changes monthly, is planned at least 12 months in advance.

Proposals may be for new projects or for exhibitions that have already been curated. The EAF encourages the use of the organisation as a site for developmental work and new projects.

*Please note Due to the high volume of enquiries received proposals will be responded to at the Experimental Art Foundation's discretion. Proposals and support material can only be returned if return postage and self-addressed envelope is included in your initial package.

The EAF requires the following in support of proposals:

• Documentation Recent work to support your proposal can include any of the following: 35mm slides, Website URLS, VHS, DVD or CD-ROM. Documentation of the exhibition is suitable if the show has already been curated. Please make sure that the slides and documentation are of good quality. Description of the work(s) must be clear and comprehensible.
• Concept & Rationale for the proposed exhibition
  This need not normally be more than an A4 page. It should include a succinct account of the idea behind the proposal, including a discussion of the themes the artist(s)/curator(s) treat, or the theoretical background of the work, reasons for wanting the exhibition at the EAF, etcetera. Plans for any writing or publication associated with the exhibition should be mentioned.
• Current CV of the participants. Decisions can be made more readily, the more information we are given to work with (eg, hire of equipment, timelines, freight, etc). Please bear in mind that there are only a certain number of exhibitions possible in a given year and the EAF is not an open-access space, so submitting a proposal is no guarantee of acceptance. This is not necessarily a reflection on the proposal but perhaps of its relationship to the policies of the EAF and the focus of the program - which is often constructed along specific curatorial themes - is focusing on at that time.

The EAF is also available to give advice on less fully developed proposals for exhibition. You might wish to have the EAF's assistance in extending or tightening an exhibition's theme, advice on budgets and where to apply for funding, suggestions about who might curate the exhibition, additional or alternative artists to be considered for any particular exhibition. This advice is also available for exhibitions that are not necessarily designed for the EAF.

As with exhibitions, project proposals may be fully conceived or less defined. The EAF mission statement and programming policies suggest the sorts of projects in which we might be interested. When in doubt, speak to us about the project.

A project proposal might be developed in conjunction with the EAF. Preliminary proposals need not be any more extensive than an outline. A proposal for a project in its final form would need to show substantial detail including:

• Detailed description of the project consisting of a rationale, slides and description of the work where appropriate;
• The names of the co-ordinator(s) and participants (with relevant CV material);
• Your reasons for wishing to run the project in conjunction with the Experimental Art Foundation.

The EAF will financially resource and otherwise facilitate the successful execution of exhibition and project proposals to the best of its abilities. One of the EAF's primary aims is to properly support and represent the production of new work by artists. Means of assistance include payment of an artist's fee, freight, insurance, installation, travel, equipment hire, publicity and promotion.