[oberlist] MX* call/res: [R.A.T.] Residencias Artísticas Por Intercambio

[ober at emdash.org]

As a transdisciplinary research and aesthetic exploration project,
[R.A.T.] aims at creating alternative spaces for the development of
creative proposals of artistic production, cultural reflection and
dialogue between local communities, artists, curators, cultural managers,
critics, art theorists, and scholars working on different disciplines from
Mexico and other countries through an artist-in-residence program that
operates under the logic of exchange.


Since 2003 [ R.A.T.] has promoted the production of independent and
emerging contemporary art via different open calls for projects and
workshops that have contributed to enrich, foster, and facilitate the
exchange of ideas and the development of aesthetic proposals with social
vein. The project is based upon the belief that transdisciplinary practice
breaks through the rigid structures of specialized thought widening the
scope of creativity.
[R.A.T.], in its character as an exchange based artist-in-residence
program, assumes that contact between different social realities throug
direct interaction among actors of different provenance is the best means
to establish mechanisms for the exchange of experience, reflection, and
dialogue regarding issues that affect marginal communities, as well as
those enjoying better economic conditions. Therefore, through the
launching of thematic calls for residencies and other forms of sponsorship
that stimulate contemporary art, [R.A.T.] intends to further new models
for the production and dissemination of culture, seting a precedent,
within the public sphere, for future generations. To enalrge the cultural
offer propitiating a wider cultural consumption at the local level can
also have an impact at the global scale through the practice of exchange.
Our residency program is meant to trigger plurality in the reading and
interpretation of any given object or phenomenon and the specific social
process and context it associates with. Following Hal Foster in The Return
of the Real, this project acknowledges that art rests upon an axis of
“horizontal, synchronic, social operation” no longer located within the
institutional space, the predominance of which has receded before other
networks of discourse now linked to artistic production. A major line of
work in contemporary art results in the production of objects and actions
addressing social processes and relations linked to specific economic and
cultural dynamics such as inequality, social exclusion, marginality, the
operation of capital and free markets, political movements, gender
relations and identities, the space patterns of  urban settlement and the
distribution of wealth.

Art is conceived in this project accordingly, as a vehicle for cultural,
ideological, and social exchange directly involved in the construction of
a public sphere wherein different positions and perspectives concur. Art
products thus created shall not necessarily be exhibited in the kind of
spaces traditionally designed for artistic circulation and promotion such
as museums and galleries. Instead they will alight upon other environments
marking other sorts of relations with the community they nurtured from and
the individuals that constitute it. According to this principle [R.A.T.]
supports projects that interact with, or reflect about, the hosting local,
regional or national community (Mexico), without this implying their
dialogic disconnection with other spheres and latitudes.

PERMANENT CALL

[R.A.T.] Residency Program promotes the technical and intellectual
exchange between artists and other cultural practitioners (critics,
theorists, film makers, anthropologists, historians, architects, etc.).
The Residence is defined as an opportunity to build communication channels
and develop site specific projects.  The process of production, reception,
and appropriation of art and culture in this program is  expected to keep
an open, non-elitist profile (as far as possible). Our system, based on
the home exchange idea, offers one participation modalitie, the minimum
stay is one week and the maximum is four within the same calendar year.
Our venues, located in Mexico City, are open all year round. [R.A.T.]
Coordinators will decide upon the assignation of the host-residency
according to space availability and project specific requirements.

• Residence in exchange of work: interested artists must generate or
complete at least two pieces at the residency, one of which will be
donated to [R.A.T.] Documentation Collection in exchange of lodging.

For details, and application formats contact

r.a.t.residencias.artisticas at gmail.com

http://www.r-a-t.com.mx


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