SERVICES



Audiovisual Production

Monthly Fee: $1650 (6-month minimum)

I work with contemporary artists, art institutions, curators, and scholars to produce interdisciplinary and often experimental video and audio projects, typically intended for art gallery exhibitions, cinemas, and online distribution. As an experienced filmmaker, video editor, sound designer, and installation artist, I develop original working processes with clients over a minimum six-month period, during which production plans and audiovisual approaches are shaped around the specific concerns, questions, and scope of a project.

My monthly fee covers:

    • unlimited in person or online meetings and emails for conceptual development, production coordination, and follow ups on in-progress edits;
    • up to 4 shoot days per month, or 20 shoot days per five-month period, distributed as necessary by the client for the particularities of the project;
    • unlimited editing hours;
    • the fee does not cover expenses related to production such as travel, accommodation, or additional equipment rental, which will be discussed and budgeted for at the beginning of the process;
    • to ensure dedication to projects, I will take on up to two Audiovisual Production clients at at time, allowing for me to have the time and focus to develop original methods and deliver on production deadlines;
    • resulting projects will be owned fully by the client, with an included credit that the work has been “produced with Neven Lochhead.”


Monthly Fee: $1700 (4-month minimum)

I work with art galleries, cultural organizations and university departments on the development of research environments, production intensives, special topic courses, artist residencies, and organizational strategies. These will often result in public engagement formats such as exhibitions, event series, discussions, learning contexts, and publications. My work as a curatorial consultant seeks to enhance the goals of the client to create platforms and organizational structure that imaginatively expand the goals of existing initiatives and organizations.

The monthly fee covers:

  • unlimited in person or online meetings and emails for conceptual development, logistical coordination, and follow ups on in-progress work;
  • 10 hours a week of independent working on program development, research, and coordination (or 40 hours per month / 160 hours per 4-month period, distributed as necessary by the client for the particularities of the project)
  • execution of up to five public-facing activities or events per four-month period;
  • the fee does not cover expenses related to production such as travel, accommodation, or equipment rental, which will be discussed and budgeted for at the beginning of the process;
  • to ensure dedication to the client’s projects, I will take on up to two Curatorial Consultancy projects per four-month period, allowing me to have the time and focus to develop original methods and deliver on organizational deadlines;
  • resulting projects will be owned fully by the client, with an included credit that the work has been “produced with Neven Lochhead.”

 

Sound + Synthesis Advanced Study

Monthly Subscription: $750 (3-month minimum)
Upcoming period: October 2024 – December 2024

I offer creative, academic, and professional mentorship to undergraduate and graduate level students through an ‘Advanced Study’ platform, which takes place remotely, as well as in-person when possible. The platform extends from the teaching dynamics of my undergraduate course and film production intensive, Sound + Synthesis, which won the faculty-wide Dean’s Teaching Fellow Award from Queen’s University in 2023 for “enriching student learning with high-impact activities and curriculum design.” As is the case with the original course, the Advanced Study platform is meant to activate individual artistic production and nurture commitment to one’s artistic practice. This is done through providing frequent prompts and in-depth feedback, which enhance the development of technical skills and conceptual thinking in students.

Different from the undergraduate course, the increased level of one-on-one interaction in the Advanced Study platform means that students are able to more capably customize their learning and production goals. Over the course of a minimum 3-month period, the student and I will identify clear aims for our time together – whether that is the completion of an artwork or film, the development of their artistic portfolio, pursuing a professional opportunity, making a public presentation of their work, etc. – and find ways that we can reach those goals together.

Mentorship Style | My teaching and mentorship style is highly engaged, communicative, and generous. I apply my sensibilities and background as an artist, filmmaker, curator, organizer, and educator to build and sustain energizing environments of intellectual and creative support with students, in ways that always seek to place their own uniqueness at the centre. Students have described me as a compassionate and collaborative teacher, and have expressed finding great joy in the learning environments I create.

Group Engagement | When I am mentoring more than one student, I will also coordinate regular group meetings and workshops with the group, in addition to my individual work with students. These peer environments provide a context for students to share their work and knowledge with each other, and create a community of support for one another. To ensure my dedication to student goals, I will take on up to three students per three-month period.

The monthly subscription of $750 covers:

  • weekly one-hour meetings (online, or in person when possible);
  • unlimited email communication and feedback on projects;
  • when relevant to the student’s goals, originally designed production assignments, customized specifically for the student and including detailed feedback;
  • tutorials and workshops on technical and conceptual skills relevant to student goals, such as audio and video editing, exhibition design, writing an artist statement, assembling an artistic portfolio, etc.;
  • assistance in researching opportunities related to student’s goals, such as academic programs, exhibition / presentation opportunities, artist residency programs, etc.

Bio | Dr. Neven Lochhead is an artist, filmmaker, curator, and educator from Kingston, Ontario. He received his PhD from Queen’s University in May 2024 for his book-length dissertation and portfolio, An Artist’s Almanac to Research, Organization, Education, and Bookings, which was subsequently nominated for the the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal by the Department of Film and Media. From 2016-2020, he was Director of Programming at SAW Video Media Art Centre in Ottawa, where he launched the immersive exhibition venue Knot Project Space, and mounted a city-wide urban media art exhibition, Imagining Publics. His co-curated exhibition a guest + a host = a ghost won exhibition of the year at the 2022 GOG Awards. In 2023, he received the faculty-wide Dean’s Teaching Fellow Award at Queen’s, acknowledging “exceptional commitment to teaching” in his original undergraduate course, Sound + Synthesis. He is currently a fellow at University of British Columbia’s School of Music, where he has been commissioned to make a feature length documentary and related exhibition examining the carceral logics of museum collections and the repatriation of Indigenous cultural belongings and ancestors. His individual and collaborative work artistic and film work has been shown in North America and Europe, and he has been invited to international residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, 2015) and the Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Lake Como, 2014).