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INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM

Over 30 curators, art & residency centres directors and project managers as well as artists are coming together to Nida to discuss and reflect on working and living in remote areas, on the theme of “remoteness”, with an emphasis on community building, interaction with local inhabitants, and site specificity.

Interacciones urbano_rural: collaborative rural residencies in South America

Interacciones urbano_rural provides periods of residence in Terra UNA (Brazil), Residencia en la Tierra (Colombia) and Centro Rural de Arte (Argentina). Authorial projects are accepted within the field of contemporary art contemplating transdisciplinarity between languages ​​and different areas of knowledge. Full and partial grants (covering also travel costs) are available. Deadline: 16 May.

Artist-run residency Hotel MariaKapel, the Netherlands

 

Artist-run residency HMK (Hotel MariaKapel) invites artists to submit group-proposals for the 2013 residency programme.Deadline: June 1, 2012 

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Trans Artists is a knowledge centre on cultural mobility, with a strong focus on artist-in-residence opportunities. Here you can find all about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence programs as well as other cultural opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere.

 

2 grants for 1 month residency at ComPeung, Thailand

Since 2010 ComPeung awards 2 residency grants (1 month) per year. The ComPeung Grants cover travel costs, accommodation and subsistence, as well as a small artist fee. The grant residencies are always scheduled for October. Deadline: 31 May 2012.

Call for Application: 2012-2013 Residences «contemporary art, patrimony, landscape»

Voyons voir launches a call for projects to professionals in visual arts and design. The creators (artists and designers) will focus their researches on the idea of transformation and particularly on the intermediate states which characterise it. The residency will take place in vineyards in Aix-en-Provence surrounding areas (France). Deadline for application: May 15.

L’ a.i.r de f e z : Call for Application

L’ a.i.r de f e z is a new artist residency program located in Fez (Morocco), which is inviting artists to apply for a residency period of minimum 1 week, starting from August 15, 2012.

Open Calls for Applications - M4m Programme & map Programme 2012 - 2013

The European Pépinières Programme for Young Artists launches two calls for application: the M4m programme, open to artists as well as to professionals from the creative world, performers, technicians, art directors, or to researchers, scientists, philosophers, and  the map Programme 2012 - 2013, which offers a wide selection of artistic residencies around the concept "encounter and joint creation".