The Jerwood Artangel Open - a new £1 million commissioning initiative - has been set up to tap into a rich seam of unrealised artistic potential.

The Open offers an unparalleled opportunity for emerging artists in the UK to share with us ideas for exceptional projects which need a specific site, significant resources and a committed production team, including new opportunities for trainee producers.

Some of the most exceptional cultural experiences of the past decade have been located in different sites and situations around Britain.

The involvement of Channel 4 as a broadcast partner for The Jerwood Artangel Open will help broaden the reach and impact of the commissioned projects by providing support for television films.

Proposals can be made by practitioners of any artistic discipline, as individuals or groups, by artists on their own or together with curators or producers. The proposals can be for projects in response to any kind of non-art site or situation across the country (for example not a gallery, theatre, cinema or concert hall but more or less anywhere else) and in any medium. The invitation is genuinely open.

Three proposals will be identified from the Open call. The commissions will be developed and produced by Artangel for presentation in the UK between 2008 and 2010.