[oberlist] PL* call/air: RE-DIRECTING: EAST

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RE-DIRECTING: EAST
OPEN CALL FOR ART PROFESSIONALS
DEADLINE: 31.03.2015

ONE MONTH RESIDENCY AT THE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE LABORATORY,
CCA UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE WARSAW IN MAY 2015
http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=air&lang=eng&s2=wydarzenia

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and the City of Warsaw
invite art professionals: curators, organisers, researchers and managers
to apply for one-month long residencies in frames of Artists-In-Residence
Laboratory programme at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. The A-I-R
Laboratory has been organizing an international residency programme at the
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw since 2002.

Initiated in 2013 "Re-Directing: East" consists of the series of artistic
and curatorial residencies and it postulates the experimental and working
approach to geopolitical aspects, their performative investigation. The
notion of “Re-Directing” refers here to a need to facilitate
collaborations with art initiatives from regions with which the A-I-R
Laboratory hasn't had an opportunity to collaborate so far. What we are
looking for is an opportunity to cooperate and discuss the specific
narratives dealt with by culture creators in the regions characterized by
the recent fundamental system transformations and political instability,
on the one hand, and the regional artists’ readiness to experiment with
the forms of art education and practice, on the other. Starting in Warsaw,
which due to its historical experience and geographic location, is an
ideal place for such a meeting we envision Re-Directing: East as a roaming
academy, a platform enabling non-obvious micro-scale and research-based
meetings and dialogues.


Eligible countries:
Algeria, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, China, Egypt,
Georgia, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Mongolia, Moldova, Oman, Palestine,
Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan.

A month long residency in May 2015

Submission deadline: 31.03.2015

Fellows should be prepared to:
- Give a talk providing an overview or insight into specific issues
relating to the current art scene in their country.
- Prepare a portfolio review of selected artists and art initiatives from
their homeland in Warsaw.
- Participate in the A-I-R Laboratory programme (seminars, meetings, study
visits).
- Collaborate with CCA curators on preparing the artistic residencies for
their respective locales.

Selection will be based on the professional excellence of the applicant’s
work and his/her plans for sharing the benefits of the exchange with
artists and institutions in his/her home country. Applicants must have
sufficient knowledge of English to function independently and communicate
with A-I-R Laboratory staff and other residents.


We will be offering:
- Individual living space connected with the working space
- Per diems in the amount of 3200 PLN / approx. 760 EUR
- Providing the roundtrip flight
- Organizing customised programme and study visits in Warsaw and beyond.

How to apply:
Please send an electronic version of your PDF portfolio (in English and in
ONE document), including:

1. professional work experience
2. a covering letter – a short explanation of why you would like to take
part in our programme presenting any relevant personal background and the
form taken by your involvement in your local art scene
3. your CV

Please label the portfolio as follows:
your surname_your name_portfolio.pdf
In your email, please specify how you found out about this residency
opportunity.


Please send the portfolio to e-mail: air.opencall at gmail.com


About the Artists-In-Residence Laboratory
The A-I-R Laboratory has been organising an international residency
programme at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
since 2002. We consider Warsaw to be an inspiring environment for
international artists to develop their ideas while using the residency as
a tool for creation and critical reflection. These residencies for artists
and other art-related professionals provide an opportunity to develop
projects in close dialogue with a curator, and are organised with respect
to artistic work reaching beyond the art market or exhibition commissions.
At present, the A-I-R Laboratory can host up to seven artists at one time
in studios located within the CCA and in the adjacent Laboratory building,
which was opened in 2010.


This programme is co-finanaced by the City of Warsaw. Curator’s from India
residency will be organized in collaboration with Polish Culture Institute
Delhi and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.


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