2012 artist-in-residence programmes details
The Asia New Zealand Foundation is currently accepting applications for its six artist-in-residence programmes in Asia during 2012. Details about the residencies, including their duration, can be found below.
Note: Applications for all but the S-Air residency close on 28 October 2011.
1.Shanthiroad, Bangalore, India
Duration: Two months
Set up in 2003, 1.Shanthiroad offers residencies to artists from many countries. It encourages artists to collaborate and interact with the local artist community, curators, scholars, writers and young students. The residency programme provides an opportunity to interact, experiment and work with local materials to extend the artist’s visual language.
Bangalore offers diverse inspirations as a cosmopolitan and eclectic city. The artists of the city have straddled diverse genres and are part of the divergent contemporary landscape. The challenges of the residency programme will encourage artists to move beyond the comfort of their studio spaces and work in new circumstances.
This residency is open to artists working in all media, but particularly those working with local handicrafts. 1shanthiroad will facilitate interactions with the artist and the community.
This is the inaugural residency and will suit anyone open to adventure and discovery of India and its culture. The residency has coordinators who will help with and facilitate the programme.
Goyang Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
Duration: Three months September-November 2012
Part of the National Art Studio, run by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Goyang residencies are designed to enhance the diversity and quality of creative artistic exchange by providing a network for close relationships between overseas and domestic artists and various art-related professionals.
The residency is offered to visual artists who have a record of working in genres such as painting, drawing, photography, media, screen or installation arts.
Funded with support from Creative New Zealand, this annual exchange aims to increase artistic and cultural dialogue between Korea and New Zealand.
Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China
Duration: Two months
The Institute for Provocation (IFP) is a dramaturgical workspace and curatorial think tank that provides artistic research as an independent research discipline with its own context and infrastructure. Under the flag of IFP, the artist is given the opportunity to do research within his/her own paradigms, and to interact with other research disciplines following his/her own artistic logic.
IFP supports artist residencies (based on an artist's proposal) and the organisation initiates its own research projects (inviting artists to collaborate). The focus lies on the thinking process before or even beyond the actual creation of an artwork - the collection of dramaturgical information, the testing of different scenarios, the summarising of existing artistic vocabularies and realised projects, the interaction with other media or disciplines, and so on.
Cross-disciplinary dialogue serves as the institute's main facilitator. Rather than similarities, IFP proposes differences (in culture, in vocabulary, in paradigms) as actual provocations of the artist's research and thinking process.
This residency is open to theatre and film professionals including theorists and curators. It would suit someone who is developing a project at a level suitable for national and international arts festivals.
NS43 exchange, S-AiR Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Duration: Two months, January-February 2012
S-AiR Sapporo offers its residencies with the aim of developing creative resources within Sapporo.
Residents are asked to cultivate subject matter considering the city resources, natural environment, industries, culture and talented people.
New media artists working in technology art, filmmaking, design, manga and photography are welcome to apply. This is a production-based residency and artists are expected to experiment in their own field, participate in workshops and give talks within the community. A collaborative project with other artists is highly desirable and artists are asked to donate a piece of artwork to the residence.
Though applications for this residency are open nationwide, preference will be given to artists who are from Canterbury, or who have a specific connection to the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University. (The Canterbury School of Fine Arts will be the host institution for the exchange artist from Sapporo and will also undertake the shortlist selection process for the New Zealand artist).
Funded with support from Creative New Zealand.
Note: This residency requires you to complete a different application form, and the deadline is 14 November 2011.
Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Duration: Three months between March-June 2012
Located in Taipei City, nestled in its small, secluded yard with bamboo grove, Taipei Artist Village (TAV) is an oasis in the urban environment. TAV includes 13 individual studio spaces, dance rehearsal space, a piano studio, and performance hall; all facilities to support projects at various stages of development, including research, art creation, exhibitions and performances. Managed by the Taipei Culture Foundation, TAV continues to be a centre for creativity, reaching out to local residents as well as foreign artists through a variety of activities.
TAV enjoys a growing influence in Taiwan’s artistic circles as it provides a valuable experimental ground for the arts in Taiwan. The residency programme exists to promote multinational and cross-disciplinary collaboration. These interactions help create intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogues that resonate between communities and individuals long after the artist’s residence is completed.
Artists who work in the fields of contemporary Maori and Pacific arts (visual arts, dance, music etc), design (including architecture), fashion and craft/object, or within the theme or indigenous issues are welcome to apply.
Funded with support from Creative New Zealand.
Three Shadows, Beijing, China
Duration: Six weeks (TBC)
The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is the first art space solely dedicated to photography and video art in China. It aims to become China’s most professional and comprehensive platform for the promotion of contemporary photography art.
Located in the East End art district of Beijing, Caochangdi Village, just 15 minutes away from the 798 art district, the centre is in an emerging artistic community housing artist studios and art centres such as the prestigious Galerie Urs Meile.
Facilities include an exhibition hall, China’s largest library of contemporary photography, a state-of-the-art professional publishing house dedicated to producing collectible, limited editions, and popular photography books, and a multi-purpose hall for lectures, seminars, and presentations.
This residency is open to photographers, artists, curators, and academics working in photography and video art.