The GeoAIR Residency Program from 2010
Contributed by GEO AIR on 14/07/2009 13:33 in Calls for participation
The GeoAIR residency program is a self directed residency program, that offers primarily curators and cultural producers the opportunity to base themselves in Tbilisi and use this location as a starting point to build networks, meet artists, cultural institutions and curators from the Caucasus region, and develop and deepen their knowledge and research of the Caucasus context. In return local artists, curators and organizations will have the opportunity to extend their knowledge about the innovative ways that many international curators are working. GeoAir has designated her residency mainly for curators or cultural producers because it feels that they are most able to affect multiplier effects through exchange and production and are more equipped to use the residency as a platform from which to jump for to instigate future collaborations between the resident and artists and organizations form the Caucasus region.
The aim of GeoAIR is to encourage different ways of thinking about and approaching issues of artistic and professional development, dialogue, exchange, and research within the Caucasus context. GeoAIR offers a dynamic residency model designed around tapping into the regional context of the residency. The program encourages the resident to delve into his/her perception of this context and to revisit their perception and question it. This is viewed as mutually benefiting for the curators repertoire and professional development in general and for the regions exposure to new artistic experiences.
GeoAIR does not propose a set program or conditions. Instead GeoAIR is responsive to ideas and opportunities that emerge from our network and proposed resident projects. The term self directed residency reflects this approach.
GeoAIR assists in the realization, investigation and conception of new productions and research through connecting the resident with the suited organizations, curators, artists, venues and research opportunities in relation to the proposed project. GeoAIRs flexible platform enables the program and the resident to work with a wide variety of partners on innovative project collaborations.
This structure addresses the need for information and knowledge exchange and recognizes the potential for wider impact and multiplier effects and encourages the creation of this ripple effect both in and outside Caucasus region.
In addition GeoAIR offers a substantial archive that sets out to map the art activity within the Caucasus region, and asks from each resident to contribute to this database.
In this archive one will find artists, curators, writers and organizations who have contributed to past and current GeoAIR projects and initiatives and additional information about the GeoAIR network and activities in the Caucasus including catalogues, reviews, artist portfolios, art magazines and other publications. The database reflects the history of people and places that, in the end, define GeoAIR and outlines the potential of the region and its future possibilities.
How to apply:
To apply, please send us your proposal, requirements (when and how long you would like to stay), your resume, and images of your work (if necessary). We will consider the requests at anytime. Our selection committee will respond with a decision depending on availability and timeframe.
Pilot Project:
The GeoAIR residency program will start with a pilot year. In this year the residents that will stay at GeoAIR are selected by invitation only, but will follow a similar application procedure as described above. The aim of the pilot year is to get a better insight into the variety of expectations and desired goals of the residents, participating organizations and artists. Our goal is to engage in a constructive dialogue that will identify the main challenges of this residency program while discussing possible solutions and potential changes. For the pilot project GeoAIR will invite specific candidates; operating in the field of visual culture, playing a dynamic role in mediating, structuring and altering artistic contexts and relationships and with a critical understanding of how one negotiates ones own position within contemporary discourse. These candidates will each have their own approaches and goals and will challenge the program to offer the most flexible and productive platform from which they can operate.
While the GeoAIR residency program is running its pilot year it is also setting up a financial structure that will allow the program to run its best course and support the residents in achieving their goals. The input and feedback from the pilot residents in this first year will be crucial for the development and effectiveness of the program.
Financing:
This program is managed on a not-for-profit basis. Residents will receive their own housing and office-style studio with access to all GeoAIR facilities including the archive. The program provides residents access to the vast GeoAIR network that includes individuals spanning different disciplines, professions, and regions. GeoAIR provides residents with all the necessary support and connections to help them achieve their proposal and research goals primarily in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. A related community based network can provide professional and personal support to the artists. Residents are asked to look for their own funding of their projects. GeoAIR will offer help in looking for funding opportunities.
taking FROM leaving IN moving ON - urban nomadism
Contributed by Renate Mihatsch on 13/07/2009 14:34 in Calls for participation
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The intended publication discusses one kind of Neo-Nomadism, represented by a creative class. Beyond dispute this creative mobile society is a privileged minority within a global motion. This fact is to be accepted. But one can argue that a nomadic lifestyle supports critical artistic productions on globalisation-based mechanisms and that art can convey this to an audience. Thus a cultural identity created by media should be discussed, so that prejudices and discrimination may be gotten rid of. 

This work focuses on the influence of continuously shifting urban spaces, structures and flows on the creative working process. Everyday life in different cities, as well as an analysis of urban space, city exploration and its methods, such as mapping, should be broached. Cities are understood as heterogeneous structures and should be used and fully explored as laboratories and playgrounds.
The publication is open for the presentation of contextual and site-specific interventions in public space generated by a nomadic way of life as well as works dealing with mobility only.
This collection should represent a snapshot of this artistic practice at the beginning of the 21st century.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Contributions of any kind of text dealing in a broader sense with the topic in an artistic, architectural or theoretical way, are called for.
It could either be a textual or photographic work or a combination of both.
In consequence of the graphical concept of the publication, there can be some changes of the contribution, which will be always discussed with the participants.
Please, hand in an abstract of your proposal (about 300 words) and a brief description of yourself, no longer than 100 words.
DEADLINE for abstract: 15th of July (+ 7 days)
WEB: www.takingleavingmoving.com
CONTACT: Renate Mihatsch
MAIL: reno_m@gmx.at
Urban Action 2010
Contributed by Bat-Yam Biennale 2010 on 10/07/2009 21:11 in Calls for participation
Urban Action 2010
Roadwork, construction, renovation, paving, roads closed for resurfacing… urban space is a constantly shifting entity. While the permanent "flexibility" of urban reality allows for dynamic evolution, it also lends a sense of uncertainty to everyday life. The 2010 Bat-Yam Biennale invites projects that examine the city's “flexible” nature in relation to both infrastructures and resources, offering innovative uses for spaces that are under construction, transforming them into functional, temporal urban spaces.
The Bat-Yam Biennale functions as a laboratory through which attitudes in and towards urban space are examined. Urban Action 2010 continues the urban action begun in the first biennale , in which Hosting was the theme.
Urban Action 2010 – the concept
Urban Action 2010 focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to encourage spaces and situations that function from within the state of a given temporality, drawing energy from this very flexibility.
The Biennale will examine whether it's possible to encourage urban situations that use temporality and change as their raw materials. The Biennale asks whether the state of temporality can become a statutory classification. Urban actions will strive to change patterns and attitudes, promoting partnership of the residents with the city. The Biennale also redefines relationships between residents, planners, stakeholders and the municipality.
Paying heed to local and global social, ecological, economic and statutory issues, Urban Action 2010 encourages projects that investigate and innovate the use of urban space.
Urban Action 2010 – the call
We invite anyone involved or interested in urbanism to propose interventions in the city of Bat-Yam. We are looking for innovative proposals that will lead to the development and improvement of urban life.
The method of intervention is at the discretion of the planner, and may be physical, community-based, documentary or written. The Biennale encourages interdisciplinary and inter-project cooperation. Accepted proposals will receive an initial, need-based research and planning fee of up to $2,000.
Urban Action 2010 – the intervention
Proposals will focus on the zones defined by the municipality’s current and future infrastructure-focused projects; these municipal projects are planned for implementation by 2010. These urban zones are documented in 360° panoramic photos attached to this open call. Interventions may address an entire zone or parts thereof, and may last for any period of time.
For more information on the Biennale and Bat-Yam visit: www.biennale-batyam.org
Urban Action 2010 – the tours
Guided tours will be held in the designated locations. Dates and times may be found on the Biennale website: www.biennale-batyam.org
Please request a tour date at: applications.batyam@gmail.com
Urban Action 2010 – submission
Proposals should include an abstract of the project concept (maximum one A4 page) and brief bios of each team member. Optional visual material may be included in either JPG or PDF format.
Please send all submissions to: applications.batyam@gmail.com
The selection process will begin August 30th, 2009. Projects that require extra preparation time will be accepted by September 30th, 2009. Preference will be given to projects submitted by the first deadline.
First deadline for submissions: August 30th, 2009
Second deadline for submissions: September 30th, 2009
http://opencall2010.biennale-batyam.org/
Biennale Curators: Yael Moria Klain and Sigal Barnir
Asst. Curators: Yael Caron and Adi Gura
Producer: Noa Taub, Bat-Yam Municipality
Photography: Assaf Evron
Call for Proposals: Nomadic Village 2009
Contributed by On The Road Productions on 19/05/2009 16:38 in Calls for participation
Call for Proposals: Nomadic Village 2009
20th-30th of August 2009
Pavlikeni, Bulgaria
Organiser: On The Road Productions (www.lufka.org)
In the last decade, many traditional obstacles to exploring
the world as an individual, like borders and monopolies of
institutions and information, vanished. To probe this freedom,
many mobile projects like traveling mini-states, on-the-roadcinemas,
busses converted to ateliers and galleries and transnational
music projects started to appear. In this context, On
The Road Productions (ORP) exercises an artistic activism,
that finds and creates spaces, in which artists can work
outside of the walls of existing institutions. ORP fosters
projects that aim at finding and expressing independent and
original views. Centerpiece is a Steyr-Ikarus bus that has
been converted into an atelier-, office- and gallery-space.
The Nomadic Village is going to be an enlarged space of that
character, an artist residence with a slight festival
character, in which various mobile projects are going to
create a microcosm together. The participants will bring their
own housings, like busses, vans or caravans, that will become
the structure of the temporary village.
Location of the Nomadic Village
The location is an empty lot on the fringe of Pavlikeni. Not
far from the center, but remote enough, it provides a good
setting for the village to come into existence. We will create
the space that will surround us, and follow artistic discourse
and work between land-art, video, music and more. The common
denominator is an interest in modern nomadism.
The first week (20th – 27th of August) we will focus on the
community. The village will become a temporary, partly
improvised setting: Our autonomous space, in which original
projects can be realized in an adequate, self-created
surrounding.
On the last 2 days (28th – 29th of August) the village will
present itself to the world. In the Nomadic Village we will
put up installations, performances, concerts and exhibitions.
Besides that, there is also the option of showing certain
works in Pavlikeni. People from Pavlikeni as well as international guests will be
invited to get a taste of our temporary microcosm.
To help the realization of projects, ORP can provide the
following:
-Contact with the town of Pavlikeni (for public presentations
etc.)
-rental of 2 mongolian yurtas as living or working space
-contacts for rental of camping vans in Austria and maybe
Bulgaria
-support with the development and concepts of projects
-technic for video projection, sound installation and
concerts, an analogue colour darkroom
-work-places (tents, air-conditioned bus)
-internet
The paricipants should bring their own housing and be able to
finance their projects independently. ORP has to receive a
short project description (title, concept, participants) prior
to the Nomadic Village. Guests who visit the public
presentations are excepted from this, and are also invited to
stay in hotel Bora, not far from the village.
Due to the nature of the Nomadic Village (it is still
growing), not all possibilities are listed here. If you have
project-specific questions, please contact On The Road
Productions.
contact:
Klaus Maehring/On The Road Productions
e-mail: orp@lufka.org
tel.: +43/699/10316027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CURATOR CURATOR 2009
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 11/03/2009 16:15 in Calls for participation
Exhibition projects by upcoming curators in The HISK, Ghent, Belgium.
Organised by Maarten Vanden Eynde and Maaike Gouwenberg
Deadline: April 15th 2009
‘CURATOR CURATOR’ offers:
- The possibility to do studio visits at the only post-graduate art academy in Belgium and include one or more of the students if suiting to the exhibition concept.
- A working and installing period of one week in collaboration with the selected artist(s) followed by an official opening.
- An exhibition running for one month after the opening.
- The opportunity to work together with one of the master students Graphic Design of Sint Lucas Institute in Ghent in order to come up with a matching invitation.
‘CURATOR CURATOR’ doesn’t give any boundaries other than the limits of the presentation space: you are free to experiment in a way that isn’t always possible. You are free to choose HISK students for your project if they fit your concept. To invite the students to participate in the show is not the aim or starting point of ‘CURATOR CURATOR’, but the studio visits are more considered as part of the whole curatorial program.
Please send us your proposal (max. 2 pages Dutch or English), before the 15th of April.
A selection will be made of two proposals for the second series of CURATOR CURATOR.
One exhibition will take place in June 2009 and another one in September 2009.
Address:
CURATOR CURATOR @ HISK
t.a.v. Maarten Vanden Eynde
Charles de Kerchovelaan 187a
9000 Ghent
Belgium
We are looking forward to see your proposal!
Call for Proposals: Factory
Contributed by MoBY on 14/11/2008 20:52 in Calls for participation
Call for Proposals: Factory
MoBY [Museums of Bat Yam, Israel]
Deadline: December 15th 2008
MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam, Israel) is inviting artists and groups of all cultural fields to submit proposals for works/actions for Factory, an international exhibition taking place in two venues from May 2009.
Please use the following form, available for download here: http://mobyinfo.googlepages.com/home
Please send your proposal to: mobyfactory@gmail.com
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism
Contributed by Jan van Eyck Academie on 23/10/2008 12:51 in Calls for participation
Call for applications
Jan van Eyck Academie
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism
— research project
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism, a new project of the Design department, initiated by Keller Easterling, researches underexplored territory in the world’s infrastructural and organizational strata. The work focuses on shared protocols, managerial subroutines and financial instruments as they produce and program physical space around the world. Perhaps because these organizations operate in the background, in an active and relational rather than nominative register, their political outcomes are often at once pervasive and mysterious.
For instance, how do organizations like the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) or McKinsey determine management protocols? How do construction networks, more than the singular creations of architects and urbanists, disseminate materials and processes that determine how the world is calibrated? How do markets and financial instruments create templates that shape space?
The research also explores the political leverage latent in this renovated conception of global infrastructure. Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but rather in the language of architecture, urbanism and infrastructure. Armand Mattelart argues that global infrastructure is a field that is “young and uncharted” largely because it is often still considered in terms of national rather than international histories. Moreover, the political instrumentality of these increasingly familiar global spheres is still frequently theorized in terms of militarization or universal rationalization, when they might really be agents of more discrepant or obscure forms of polity. The notion that there is either a dominant logic or a proper forthright realm of political negotiation usually acts as the perfect camouflage for parallel political activity — the medium of subterfuge, hoax and hyperbole that actually rules the world.
Extrastatecraft will consider a number of tools effective in manipulating active organization, but will pay particular attention to the ways in which these organizations are really populations of repeatable components and formats, the arrangement and chemistry of which possess a political disposition. The project will research multipliers in the organization that make components contagious and powerful as shapers of polity, and will consider these as stealthy tools of activism. New objects of practice and entrepreneurialism, redefined in a relational register, reflect the network’s ability to amplify structural shifts or repeatable moves. If icons of piety, collusion or competition often escalate tensions, might alternative design ingenuities distract from them? Having customarily absented itself from official political channels, architecture, as extrastatecraft, finds itself in an unexpectedly consequential position, manipulating codes of passage and points of leverage in the thickening back channels of global infrastructure.
While researchers will find in the topic many points of entry, some anticipated research agendas address the managerial and infrastructural substrates of space related to finance, construction, trade and marketing. Travel, language skills, archival experience and fieldwork will serve the research. Textual, graphic or design documents may contribute to the final collective product.
Candidates interested in this project can apply with a research proposal. Selected candidates gain the position of researcher at the Design department of the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Deadline applications: 24 November 2008.
The project will start in 2009.
To apply see: www.janvaneyck.nl
For content-based information contact: anne.vangronsveld@janvaneyck.nl
For practical information contact: leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl
Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and internationally. She has also published web installations including: Wildcards: a Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. Her research and design work has been most recently exhibited at the Rotterdam Biënnale, the Architectural League and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Easterling is associate professor at Yale University.
apexart International Franchise "resolving another boundary between art and business"
Contributed by apexart on 18/09/2008 11:09 in Calls for participation
apexart wants to come to you. Any city, any town, anywhere in the world. We are offering a one-time franchise opportunity where apexart will come to your city and appoint you the director of your own temporary non-profit exhibition space. For a four-week exhibition, and in the months preceding, you will be the director and/or curator and/or staff of your own institution with a budget, a salary, and complete control.
We will provide up to 10,000 USD in funding, along with the necessary guidance to make your curated exhibition happen, accompanied by an apexart brochure. In addition, prior to your show, we'll arrange to bring you to NYC for three days, all expenses paid, to visit apexart and meet our staff.
Submit up to a 250-word statement on why apexart should come to you. Applications will be accepted until midnight December 1, 2008 EST, from anyone, anywhere in the world. Visit www.apexart.org/franchise.htm for more information on how to apply.
apexart is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary visual arts organization located in Lower Manhattan. Through our exhibitions, international residency, publication initiatives, and programs and events, we are committed to cultural and intellectual diversity and aim to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary art. Our exhibitions and programs are intended to promote consideration among our local audience while extending the dialogue to our international audience through print and electronic outreach. Since our inception in 1994, more than 1,000 artists, from emerging to established and from all over the globe, have participated in over 130 exhibitions. Each year, apexart presents seven group exhibitions, hosts eight international residents, organizes numerous public lectures and performances, and distributes 70,000 full-color interpretive exhibition brochures free of charge to individuals and institutions in 95 countries. In addition, our web-based audience con sists of over 17,000 unique visitors monthly from more than 100 nations. This widespread distribution and outreach of our programs is vital to apexart's ability to develop new audiences and to bring new voices and critical perspectives to New York.
apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
http://www.apexart.org
At Home Anywhere
Contributed by At Home Anywhere on 13/08/2008 11:50 in New works
With this project we want to map the differences and similarities of the concept of 'home' within the European Union.
By spending one day and one night at someone’s home, we can record and collect rituals, habits and characteristics. Through a literature study, interviews with residents, analyses, comparisons with the tradition of living and creating a photo report, we will identify what makes people feel at home. In each country we will travel to the village that’s located most centrally within that country, the village or the city closest to the geographical centre. This place, on average, is the furthest away from the borders. Het Kadaster has calculated the geographical centers of each country specifically for this project.
There will appear a book and a travelling exhibition about the project.
http://www.athomeanywhere.eu/
Call for Expressions of Interest
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 10/05/2008 00:22 in Calls for participation
ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF Expert Committee European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
The DEADLINE for online submission of Humans in Outer Space Call for Expressions of Interest is Saturday 31 MAY 2008.
Space age has reached its 50th anniversary. Development of robotic exploration to distant planets and bodies across the solar system, as well as pioneering human space exploration in Earth orbit and the Moon, paved the way for ambitious long-term space exploration. Europe has always played a significant role in the endeavours of humankind to explore other worlds and to understand the Universe in which we live.
Today, space exploration goes far beyond a merely technological endeavour, as its further development will have a tremendous social, cultural and economic impact. Space activities are now entering an era where the contribution of the humanities - history, philosophy, anthropology, the arts as well as the social sciences - political science, economics and law - will become crucial for the future of space exploration. Now that the awareness for the societal complexity of activities in space is growing internationally, it is vital that Europe, with a stronghold in natural sciences as well as its identity firmly rooted in the humanities and the social sciences, grasps the opportunity to involve their specific knowledge(s) in the long-term planning of exploration undertakings.
Our generation may be given the opportunity to explore new places and discover new worlds. Those adventures will be driven by the human desire of quest for knowledge and human curiosity. They will provide a main opportunity for equitable international cooperation. Humans divided on Earth will hopefully unite in space as citizens of one planet.
During 2007, the European Science Foundation (ESF) has set up the first comprehensive trans-disciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space. This dialogue goes further than regarding humans as better-than-robot tools for exploration. It investigates the human quest for odysseys beyond Earth’s atmosphere and reflects on the implications of the findings of extraterrestrial life.
The inherent human curiosity for exploring the unknown is at the heart of this dialogue, and has been addressed through collaboration between the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) and the ESF European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna. A conference on ‘Humans in Outer Space’ was organised on 11 – 12 October 2007 in Vienna, resulting in the Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space. The vision provides a European perspective in identifying the relevant needs and interests linked with space exploration by humans.
ESF’s Standing Committee for the Humanities together with ESF’s Expert Committee on Space Sciences have identified the topic as an area for cross-disciplinary collaboration, that should be addressed through a broad European approach. The main purpose of this call for Expressions of Interest is to identify key challenging topics from any discipline in this area and investigate the best ways to explore them.
This consultation process will provide ESF with the views of the European scientific community on these issues. All Expressions of Interest received will be synthesised in order to identify key topics of interest to be developed at the European level. One topic recognized by ESF and ESA as interesting for further cross-disciplinary collaboration is the human impact of human spaceflight. Human spaceflight is a major endeavour that calls together many scientific and technical disciplines. Up to now, the emphasis in this context has mostly been on engineering, physical and life sciences aspects, where major achievements have been obtained.
However, with Europe preparing itself for a decision on its ambition in future human spaceflight to further destinations than a low orbit around Earth, it is timely to address also the human and social aspects of having ‘some of us out there’.
The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space clearly indicates that here is a very interesting field to explore. Europe could take the lead in bringing this a step further and provide a social sciences and humanities based framework for decisions and events that are expected to happen in the next decades. Examples include:
· Psychology of isolation
· Ethical aspects of human spaceflight
· Socio-economic costs and benefits
· Space law
· Religious implications of leaving Earth
· Administrative and social structures in Lunar or Martian settlements
· Finding non-terrestrial life forms: social, psychological, religious
implications
· Artistic expression as a means to share the human exploration experience
After selection by a multidisciplinary panel, the most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Submission
Submissions of Expression of Interest are invited from researchers based in Europe. The abstract should be submitted by 31 May 2008 via on-line form and should not exceed 400 words.
A panel will discuss the received ideas (Expressions of Interest) in June 2008. All applicants will be informed about the outcome of this exercise. The most engaging ideas will be pursued in a collaborative way through ESF-managed workshop(s) to be held in 2008 / 2009.
Further Information and Contacts
Dr. Monique van Donzel, Standing Committee for the Humanities
Dr. Jean-Claude Worms, European Space Sciences Committee
Ms. Marie Suchanova, general enquiries
European Science Foundation
1, quai Lezay Marnésia – BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex – France
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 00
Fax +33 (0)3 88 76 71 81
Email: HiOS[at]esf.org
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