EHESS Call: CRESS Residency

The School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) offers one-month residency grants at the Maison des Chercheurs located at Campus Condorcet for artists (candidates should have permanent residence outside the French territory) to support their engagement in a collaboration with researchers based at EHESS.

The residencies, for a total duration of four weeks, and any fieldwork missions shall take place between March 2023 and November 2023 (except over the summer period, i.e. July and August).

Artist and researcher duos apply with a predefined project. The work produced by means of this collaboration is intended to be multidisciplinary, and it should emphasise the articulation of social sciences with the issues of innovative and creative narratives.

The laureates are thus offered the opportunity to involve themselves in Campus Condorcet project, an intellectual and artistic hub located only fifteen minutes by metro from Paris city centre, and partake in the new dynamic of the urban and cultural development of the Paris Metropolis.

The residency grants include:

• For artists: transportation fees, accommodation at the Maison des Chercheurs of Campus Condorcet and a flat-rate mobility allowance equivalent to one month’s stay as part of the Visiting Professorship programme (between 3700 and 4000 euros for a 28-day period).
• For researchers: coverage of mission expenses for a maximum of a one-month fieldwork, as well as compensation of the expenses related to accommodation in case researchers reside outside the Ile-de-France region (transportation if necessary, per diem).
• If the selected projects involve fieldwork, CRESS will cover the costs of the artists’ and researchers’ fieldworks for a period up to a month.
• A budget intended to cover the practical needs generated by the project (space rentals, material, equipment, etc.) may be allocated. An estimate of these additional costs should be provided.

Eligibility conditions

• Researchers are to belong to one of the EHESS research centres: full member researchers, postdoctoral fellows (contractors with EHESS at the time of application as well as during the residency), EHESS doctoral candidates (whether contractors or not).
• Artists and researchers are to collaborate in order to create an original work or a new project. To be eligible, artists are to reside outside the French territory.
• Projects that consolidate links with EHESS partners or develop links with new cultural institutions based in the Ile-de-France region for production and/or exhibition will be valued.
• Collaborations are to result in exhibitions, in a form to be determined, at the end of residencies.
• This common production will have to be within the financial and technical resources of EHESS. It is reminded to the project leaders that the institution does not have the production resources of an artistic institution

Application guidelines

The application should include

1. general information about the applicants (CVs of the researcher and the artist, examples of previous works);
2. the project application, including a summary of the project and its detailed description (2,000 words max.);
3. a detailed budget estimate for the project implementation (production costs, events, etc.). Budgetary, technical and logistical expertise will be mobilised to assess the project and its feasibility;
4. a technical sheet for creation and restitution stages of the project;
5. any additional information on the project (themes, approaches, disciplines, etc.) as well as on the cultural institutions proposed for the production/exhibition of the project and on the spaces to be invested on Campus Condorcet. A review committee composed of EHESS researchers, artists and members of cultural institutions will be in charge of selecting the projects.

The call for applications is open until 20 December 2022 (00:00 – Paris time). The application must be written in French or English and submitted by email to the following address: [email protected].

Visit EHESS' website for more information.