Tsung-yeh Art and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan 2025

Tsung-yeh Art and Cultural Center in Tainan City is the result of the fusion of an old sugar refinery with multicultural ideas to form a unique space. With years of effort, Tsung-yeh Artist and Cultural Center has established itself as a center for arts, crafts and culture while producing valuable creative works in Tainan. Through providing the working space and encouraging resident artists to communicate with the locals, they hope to promote this historical site not simply as a place for exhibitions, but rather an important gathering site for international arts and artists.

Tsung-yeh Art and Cultural Center is a governmental institute, operated by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government, Taiwan. Please see Space and Environment for further information.

The theme for 2025 is “Site-Specific Art”. Artists shall observe the following contexts of Tainan City before creating works. The hydrology (including river basin and water management system), physiography (archaeological studies, soil, meteorology, or topographical variations), ecology (aquatic, amphibian, and terrestrial fauna and flora in the area), humanities (indigenous, agricultural, river-related, or ecology-related culture).

Eligibility:

• Disciplines: All forms of artistic expression are acceptable.
• All applicants must be able to communicate in either English or Chinese.
• Applicants are required to plan their residency projects based on the theme of the residency, create their works in the form of on-site specific production, and prepare for the exhibition by integrating the historical heritage buildings of Tsung-yeh Arts and Cultural Center.

Program provisions:

• Placements of up to three months with free accommodation and studio space.
• Living and working expenses in Taiwan (including personal-income-tax and insurance, the income-tax of foreigner will be 6%-20%) - partly subsidized (NTD 30,000 per month maximum). The total amount will be paid by 2 installments. Artists will receive this payment directly, excluding any tax. The Taiwan government has announced that all terms of contract should include stamp-tax, which is one thousandth of the total amount. The stamp-tax should be paid in cash by artists themselves, and this is excluded from the subsidy.
• Presentation expense - The maximum allocation is NTD 150,000(including tax), which will be paid directly to the relevant contractors. The above expenses include: providing the service or materials used in completing exhibitions, fees for brochure design and printing, dissemination, art work insurance, translation fees, and expense for press conference, etc. Fees for artwork transportation and transport costs resulting from personal research are excluded.
• The selected artists will hold at least one and at most three workshops during their residency. The residency organisers will offer NT10,000 (including tax) for the lecturer and material fees for each workshop, depending on the actual number of applicants, each workshop must provide a maximum of 15 participants (including 15 sets of material). The workshop fee will be directly subsidized to the artist. If the workshop fee exceeds the subsidy amount, it will be covered by the exhibition material fee.
• Administration support.
  ※If you have any enquiries of the subsidy, you should notify us during the application or before signing the contract.

Program requirements- applicants’ responsibilities:

• Before the end of residency, the selected artists should provide one exhibition. In addition, you should hold at least one workshop during the residency.
• Approaching the end of the residency, the selected artists are required to complete a report and questionnaire. The report should include details of the residents’ experience, the progress of their projects and any relevant feedback

The application is online, with a deadline 30 September 2024 (extended).