Language:
English, French
Founded:
2014
Duration:
2 - 10 weeks
Paid by host:

La Source provides lodging and costs related to the publication or public sharing/exhibition of the work. They do not cover travel, health insurance, or materials.

Paid by artist:

There is no program fee, only fee for housing and food costs, as well as a small administrative fee. The organisers are happy to provide paperwork and documentation for assistance with grant funding to cover expenses.

  • ​Housing costs vary depending on specific spaces (ranging from 10-25€/day).
  • Food/supply costs are 15€/day.
  • Admin costs 5€/day.

​These expenses are roughly equivalent to the cost of living in comparable countries. If you are not able to self-fund or do not secure grant funding, digital nomads are very welcome to balance ongoing remote gigs while still participating fully in the program. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Application guidelines:

Send an email to [email protected] with the subject title: "TEMENOS art fellowship application" including the following contents:

  • A sampling of your artistic/creative work (20 images, 20 minutes, 20 pages)
  • A link to a video (or if you're really unwilling, a letter) introducing your universe to the selection committee. Please include in this video/letter:
  • A little bit of context about your world/life
  • An Introduction to your "artistic" practice/s
  • An introduction to your "centering" practice/s
  • Your reasons for applying
  • Your contact information: Name, mailing & residential address (if different), email address, phone number, links to creative/personal projects
  • Your CV
  • 1 reference letter (this is recommended but not required for applicants submitting a video application)
  • Which session/s you are applying for

For Video: YouTube and Vimeo are preferred to DropBox or GoogleDrive. If absolutely necessary for the application video, message via our FaceBook page is also possible.

For Photos: DropBox, GoogleDrive, and WeTransfer are all fine.

Deadline:
Ongoing
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La Source

La Source

Center for Research & Creation
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Description

Since its conception, La SOURCE Center for Research & Creation has been built upon a compatible model related to the study of Love. The residency examines love through 4 layers :

  • inner-connective (love within self)
  • inter-connective (love between self and other)
  • eco-connective (love for the environment)
  • and omni-connective (love amidst & throughout all that is).

​These layers echo out, from a seed to an all-encompassing inclusion. Trying to observe simply one, rather than the relationship between them, will only provide a fragment of a portrait. Only a quick, partial glimpse of Love.

Only through systemic integration can the most profound practices (and thereby, with hope, the most inspired sources of understanding and invitation) emerge. We are inviting all four of these aspects into the process of research (hereby named, “Integrative Inquiry”), so that creation can spring forth from their alignment (“Emergent Creation”).

The TEMENOS art fellowship is dedicated to providing a space in which Integrative Inquiry and Emergent Creation become methods of living, learning and making. Through these methods, Temenos fellows live in an immersive engagement of radical creative practice. Yes, radical. Not in the rebellious-reactive way. But truly radical. From the root. All the way into the branch.

The TEMENOS art fellowship is a live/work creation-lab for artists with active practices (emergent or established) in any contemporary art form, dedicated to integrative inquiry. (In addition to creative practices, we ask fellows to arrive with integrative practices. This might include contemplative, meditative, centering, embodiment, or spiritual practices of any kind.)

​5 coordinators + 5 fellows. 5 days a week of deep, rigorous care of our own & one another’s vision/practice. Temenos fellows live in an intensive, immersive, collective engagement of radical creative practice within a participatory frame ².

​There are no program fees (only room & board, and a small administrative fee).

​1 - 3 sessions of 11 weeks (fall, spring & summer), each culminating in an exhibition/ conference, followed by a publication at the end of each year.

Fellows completing 3 sessions will be awarded a Post-Graduate Practice-Led Research Diploma in Radical Creative Practice.

 

Outcome

We ask each researcher/creator to present the 'fruit' of the residency in whatever form it may take to a general public prior to your departure.

Studio Information

Temenos fellows, in addition to their own lodging on campus, have continuous access to a number of inviting spaces and areas for collective use. These collective spaces indicate some fundamental beliefs about the environmental conditions that might best support the creative cycle.

  • The Library (includes the “library of love” collection of books donated to assist love-studies; a projector and cinema screen; a fireplace, lounging area and large tables for conferences and workshops)
  • The Greenhouse Dôme (a space for individual or collective alignment practices and performance practice)
  • The Stables (a collective atelier/studio for creative practices - especially material processes in the visual arts)
  • The Hearth Kitchen (a wood-fired outdoor kitchen, sheltered, with a view of the valley - also an inviting space for exploratory culinary art, traditional craft-work, or eco-creative practices
  • The Wellness Area (a space to see how care of the body can impact the state of the mind and heart. Includes a pool, wood-fired sauna, nordic bath, and sun/rain/moon-bathing deck).
  • The Valley (a protected natural habitat for wildlife, enveloped by forest and tree-line, with a stream and a bridge for crossing to visit our wise, old oak-elder. This is also a space available for land art and site-specific installation.)
  • The Forest (the neighboring forest, with its several rivers and bouldery hillsides, is accessible from the property and includes well maintained paths for easy and safe walks day or night (as well as plenty of wilder corners). This forest will lead you on a walking loop of about 90 minutes to and from “The Forgotten Village” - a 400 year old settlement of stone ruins in the center of the wood.)

And lastly, Their Animal-Family and their various habitats: Living with animals can invite a powerful reminder to return to the most essential aspects of connection. Observing, bonding with, and caring for animals can increase inner-conditions for creative ‘fertility.’ Presently La SOURCE has on property a family of 12 goats, 3 sheep, a goose, a duck, chickens, and a dog; the neighbors also often pasture their horses on the grounds.

Contact information

Le Cosquer
29410 Saint Thégonnec Loc Eguiner
France

Email
info [at] la-source.org
Website
https://www.la-source.org