Re-Directing: East Curatorial Residency | Warsaw

Re-Directing: East Curatorial Residency | Warsaw
Deadline: February 28, 2016

Open call for Re-Directing: East Curatorial Residency on “The Making of Collective Agencies” at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. Application open only to individuals living and working outside the EU for this special curatorial group residency.

The Artists-In-Residence Laboratory at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw invites art professionals such as curators, organisers, researchers and art managers to apply for a one-month long residency. The notion of “re-directing” refers here to a need to facilitate collaborations in-between art initiatives, which due to geopolitical conditions hasn’t had many opportunities to collaborate thus far.The Re-Directing: East Curatorial Residency is a peer-learning workshop, a curatorial seminar, extended site exploration and a research opportunity for a group of four to six individuals together with the CCA team and local participants.
The participants are expected to share their experience and understanding of respective artistic and socio-political contexts, as well as to prepare themselves for participation in this year’s exploration of the topic “The Making of Collective Agencies.” This curatorial residency is a platform for developing a possible working collaboration with the CCA Ujazdowski Castle and other parties concerned in the years to come.
During the month long residency we want to (self) reflect on the curatorial practices that take place outside of formal institutions and which draw inspiration from critical, social, and collective modes of action for the commonwealth. The starting point will be to look at examples of social practices (e.g. cooperative work, like the Indonesian “gotong royong,” or the already non-existent Polish “communal work,” which has been replaced by modern forms of the “exchange platforms”), artistic (e.g. activities supporting the self-governance of artistic circles and also “alternative” institutions and forms of presentation and creation of art) and beyond, or post-artistic practices within politics, economics, and social life (protests, cultural resistance, informal education). We will utilize the presentations as well as the experiences of the participants to talk about the different strategies and consequences of entangling curatorial and artistic practices in collective actions and implementing within their frames political commentary regarding the position of specific collectives. The question of who and what collectives are, on behalf of those and within the frames of those which artistic statements are created will constitute another important issue.
The month long residencies: July 18–August 17, 2016
Submission deadline: February 28, 2016
The results will be announced by April 8, 2016
Selection will be based on the professional excellence of the applicant’s work and their plans for sharing the benefits of the exchange with artists and institutions in their home country / site of activities. Due to the programme agenda aiming at creating collaboration opportunities beyond the already existing cultural policies, we do not accept applications from individuals residing and working within the EU. Applicants must have sufficient knowledge of English to function independently and communicate with the A-I-R Laboratory staff and other residents.
It will be offering:
–Individual living space connected with the working space
–A grant of 3200 PLN / approx. 800 USD
–Reimbursement of travel costs
–Organizing a customised programme of lectures, presentations and study visits in Warsaw and beyond
–Organizing the final seminar including participants’ presentations created collaboratively during the residency
Please note that it is not cover visa fees or the insurance costs required for visa application.
How to apply
Please send an electronic version of your application in one document to the e-mail: air.opencall@gmail.com —preferred format: pdf (in English). The application document should include:
1. professional work experience in the form of a portfolio containing a description of maximum five projects
2. a cover letter
3. a paper proposal (max. 300 words). This should describe the presentation subject which you would like to develop in relation to this year’s topic “The Making of Collective Agencies.” The presentation will contribute to the seminar during the RDE residency.
4. your CV.
Please label the portfolio as follows: your surname_your name_application.pdf.
The project is implemented with financial support from the City of Warsaw.

Contacts:

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
2 Jazdów Street
00-467 Warsaw
Poland
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12–7pm,
Friday 12–9pm
T +48 22 628 12 71
csw@csw.art.pl

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16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Poland

16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Poland

Dates: May 14–September 2015
Deadline: December 10, 2014

 Program is open to various forms of creative artistic expression and communication made using electronic and/or digital media and completed after January 1, 2013

Entry form, conditions, details: http://www.wro2015.wrocenter.pl


WRO 2015: Test Exposure
The aim of the WRO 2015 Biennale is to give exposure to new media art experiments, individual explorations and approaches investigating the potential of art both to affect and to reflect emerging issues in culture.

Artists are invited to submit works that take on the risks of innovation, inquiry and imagination, using original observations, contemporary technologies and procedures in the process of creating inventive forms, interpreting the present and revising the notion of the future (which no longer seems to be a clearly defined project).

The WRO 2015 Test Exposure Biennale is a testing ground for creative, unconstrained investigations of art's potential to react to the present and to anticipate future challenges.

The WRO Biennale: about
The WRO Media Art Biennale is the major forum for new media art in Poland, and one of the leading international art events in Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in culture, art, society and technology.

The previous edition of the WRO Biennale—WRO 2013 Pioneering Values Biennale—was held at 18 sites around the city of Wrocław: museums, galleries, art house cinemas, department stores, old factory halls and public space,  where the works of over 200 artists were shown. The exhibitions, concerts, performances, video projections, installations and conferences were attended by more than a thousand accredited guests and over 110,000 visitors. The WRO 2013 Catalog is available both in print and online here.

Artistic director: Piotr Krajewski

WRO Media Art Center Foundation / The WRO Art Center
ul. Widok 7
50-052 Wrocław
Poland

T +0048 71 343 32 40
biennale@wrocenter.pl
http://www.wrocenter.pl

CCA Laznia 2 Residence Programme 2014

CCA Laznia 2 Residence Programme 2014 
deadline: 26th January 2014
 
In 2014 CCA ŁAŹNIA will invite 2 artists whose artistic practice will focus on the context of Gdansk, and / or its district New Port.CCA ŁAŹNIA is looking for artists who with the help of contemporary art practices undertake the discussion around places perceived in a certain, stereotype way. Artist is encouraged to reach out to the spaces in-between, out of the daily routine.

Currently New Port district is undergoing the process of revitalization including all its negative and positive aspects. We are therefore looking for works socially engaged and developed from a critical point of view. The aspect of reaching out to new audiences plays an important factor.

The entire 3rd floor of the newly rebuilt former bathhouse building in New Port district of Gdańsk is dedicated to artists. The building consists also of a cinema, library and workshop space, that can be all used by the artists according to their needs.  The living accommodation provides potential for many types of Art based activities to take place such as discussions, film screenings and social events. Artists Residency shall culminate in a form of a final work in the shape chosen by the artist.

Artists Residency is organised in 2 stages:
2 weeks research visit   + 2 months residency that follows

CCA ŁAŹNIA 2 will offer:
- a space to live and work
- artistic fee inclusive of travel allowance, costs of living, insurance: 2000 PLN / artist for the 2 weeks long research trip
- artistic fee inclusive of travel allowance, costs of living, insurance:  6000 PLN / artist for the 2 months long production  phase
- material costs allowance up to 2500PLN / artist (paid upon submission of receipts)
- assistant
- support of  CCA ŁAŹNIA team throughout the term in residence.

Application:
Application deadline 26th January 2014
Please email to rezydencje@laznia.pl the documentation mentioned below (pdf format in one zip file) with your name in the title:
- Artist’s statement mentioning main points of focus in your work (1500 words maximum)
- description of the work you plan to carry out during your stay at CCA ŁAŹNIA 2
- Artist’s CV
- 10 work samples (or links to your works / website)

notes:
- there are no limitations nor preferences in relation to such factors as country of origin, age, media, etc.
- applicants should be reasonably fluent in English (spoken and written).
- for further information please contact Aleksandra Księżopolska (rezydencje@laznia.pl)

contact:
CCA ŁAŹNIA 2
Strajku Dokerów 5 str.
Gdańsk – Nowy Port
Poland
www.laznia.pl