Central Station set up it’s own commissioning strand to grant monthly awards to innovative and risky projects proposed by our members.

Research during the development of the site revealed that what artists, filmmakers and designers wanted most was not promotion, advice or access to facilities but cold hard cash.

In response we launched the Member Fund, £10K that was used to award small sums of cash each month to projects that wouldn’t be supported via traditional routes. No laborious application process, we just asked for applicants to tell us what they wanted to do and how much they wanted.

The Member Fund was judged by our panel of Creative Heads, independent practitioners that included designers, curators, filmmakers and artists.

Although the fund no longer exists, it isn’t impossible that it might just come back one day.

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Take a look at some of the projects we supported and read what they had to say…

Announcement blogs by Censta:
Member Fund: Who gets £1,500?
£1,500 round two
Member Fund 03: Who won by who?
The next Member Fund award
Member Fund winners 5&6

Member Fund projects:
Fools Gold [Recoat]
AGK [Yuck n' Yum]
Brand Vs. Ethos’ Workshop – 200810 [SASA]
Pop-Up Cinema Matinee [SASA]
Pop-Up Cinema Matinee 200810 [SASA
A BIG Poster Club thank you to Central Station! [Poster Club]
I was a child Futurist [ptarmigan]
Boswell in Space…! [Boswell in Space]
Boswell in Space goes to Sheffield [Boswell in Space]
An Unco Site! [Confraternity of the Neoflagalents]
Chez Gallip [Bobby Niven]
Magic Towards Your Face [Henry Coombes]
Norman Hogg: Neomedievalism, From Empire to Kookdom in Three Easy Steps! [Confraternity of the Neoflagalents]

And here are some additional bits to browse:
Q&A: Boswell in Space
Q&A Bobby Niven

Edinburgh Art Festival 2010

An Unco Site!

As part of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival Expo Commission, the Confraternity of Neoflagellants are staging a ‘zombie walk’ and reception on Saturday the 7th of August. This involves a mash-up of Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter, The Party (starring Peter Sellers) (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1985) and The Fall’s Live at the Witch Trials (1979). A secret party is being held in the honour of Edinburgh’s ‘ghosts’, the living dead who wear historical costume for their work. At 11:00pm this Confraternity of Neoflagellants will assemble at the Scott Monument and walk through the City of Edinburgh, arriving at an undisclosed location before the midnight hour. Once there, they will cross the Styx to a wake. The after party will feature music and DJ sets as well as projections by artists currently exhibiting in ‘Avalon’ at The Embassy gallery in the Roxy Art House, Edinburgh. An Unco Site! is a psychogeographical work’s night out, a busman’s holiday that will create a confluence of professional historical actors, re-enactors and tour guides working in the City of Edinburgh – to allow them to meet and mingle and to share indulgences, resources and friendships.

Warlocks and witches in a dance:

Nae cotillon, brent new frae France,

But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,

Put life and mettle in their heels.

If you would like to participate or attend please contact the event producers:lightmotif

An Unco Site! has three components:

1. ‘The Zombie Walk’ 11pm, Scott Monument, Saturday 7th August 2010.

2. ‘The Reception’ 
early hours of Sunday 8th August 2010.

3. ‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ – Symposium, Monday 9th August in Inspace, University of Edinburgh, featuring a range of speakers on the subject of neomedievalism.

An Unco Site! media:

An Unco Site! will be streamed live to Bambuser

Photographs and footage will be edited for future podcasting onCentral Station

Walk with Us on facebook

Join the Confraternity of Neoflagellants: confraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk

The event has been made possible by support from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010, Central Station, New Media Scotland and Inspace.

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Confraternity of Neoflagellants was one of the projects awarded cash from the Central Station Members Fund.

Congratulations to Recoat and to TaytoetTayto on behalf of the Confraternity of Neoflagellants.

We’ll leave it to them to tell you in detail what they’ll be spending their money on, but for now, here’s a quick summary:

Glasgow-based gallery Recoat are plotting an exhibition in June. In Warsaw. They’re working with graffiti artists Insa and Inkie who’ll be exhibiting and making a mural together on-site. To get there they’re going on a bit of a road-trip through Europe, blogging and uploading all the while.

The Confraternity of Neoflagellants. Now then. These guys tell us they’re investigating Premodern Futures (that’s a trademarked phrase apparently.) They’ll be looking into medieval analogies for virtual communities – seemingly Central Station is remarkably similar to a Medieval Feudal system. Their curatorial projects will be popping up in Iceland, Scotland and what was once the Kingdom of Northumbria. And on here of course…