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Trans Artists is a knowledge centre 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 opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'.
FIND your artist-in-residence HEREPépinières: New Residency Opportunities!
The Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes launched their new call, offering 9 residency opportunities between September 2009 and December 2010. The call is addressed to young artists working in any discipline, between 18 and 35 years old, living in one of the partner countries.
- Deadline: July 15
Cairo Residency Symposium: Pursuit of Reciprocity
How to develop honest reciprocity? That was the implicit main question during the Cairo Residency Symposium, a three-day gathering of 86 representatives of the artist-in-residence sector from the Middle East, Africa and Europe, in March 2009. Trans Artists participated and shares this report with you.
Cairo Residency SymposiumTrailerpark Summer Academy: mobile interventions in public space
Last week of August Kunstfort at Vijfhuizen organizes the 'Trailer Park Summer Academy'. With mobile art projects as its main theme, the academy offers a five-day hands-on and theoretical program: a week of encounters with artists and other experts in the field of art and public space.
- August 24 to August 28, 2009
- Deadline of registration: August 15
- Fee: 250 euro (all included five days: food, drinks, excursions, accommodation at the Kunstfort)
- Full = full. Only 35 places available!
Apply Now for Flax International Residency
Flax Art Studios offers three 2 month residencies at their studio complex in the heart of Belfast. Established in 1989, Flax is positioned in the cultural hub of the thriving Cathedral Quarter. The residency programme runs from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011. Successful applicants will receive a studio, accommodation and monthly stipend towards materials and day-to-day living.
- Where: Belfast, Ireland
- Duration: 2 months
- Deadline: August 31
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
The 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is calling for entries for films, videos, installations and audiovisual performances. Artists, filmmakers, distributors, producers, gallery owners, universities or institutions are invited to submit latest works and projects to the different sections of the festival.
- When: November 10 - 15
- Where: Kassel, Germany
- Deadline: July 20
transmediale Award 2010
transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 euro.
- Deadline: July 31
- Award Ceremony: February 6 2010
Everybody Hates A Tourist
Everybody Hates a Tourist is a one week symposium with a diversified interdisciplinary programme of round tables, talks and workshops, with the idea of displacement as a central concept. Relating, by force of its specific condition, with concepts like migration, tourism, exile, decentralization or sustainability. The final objective is a public presentation (exhibition and/or publication).
- When: August 3 - 9
- Where: Quinta do Rabaçal, on the foothills of Montejunto mountain, Portugal
- Deadline: July 15
NIMk Artists in Residence 2010
The Artist in Residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute supports the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work. For the AiR program 2010 the focus is on technology and mobility that can change habits and inhabitation of public spaces.
- Deadline: September 1
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Space Beam AiR Programme
Space Beam started out as a local art study group in 1995, and have performed various activities including hosting seminars, publishing art magazines, and planning exhibitions. This alternative art community offers an artist-in-residence program to support international artists who wish to pursue creative activities in Baedari region.
- Where: Baedari, Incheon, Korea
- When: from August 23 to September 19
- Deadline: July 5
Belgium, Antwerpen, studio - offered
Luminous studio in old diamondfactory, suitable for painting and different media except sculpting. Lively neighbourhood, close to central station and to the local art scene.
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