OPEN CALL: FORTIFYING LIFE – Immersion with Curator Paula Borghi
Artists should submit a portfolio of 10 images, a short resume (300 words max), and a completed form to apply for a two-week immersion residency focused on art as a poetic and conceptual practice engaging with global urgencies.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- deadline unknown, verify at source
- Entry fee
- Free
- Location
- Kaaysá, Brazil
- Exhibition window
- Apr 11, 2022 → Apr 25, 2022
About
Overview
In partnership with Potência Ativa, this immersion residency brings together up to 15 multidisciplinary artists to think, experience, and produce in dialogue with the urgencies of the world. Coordinated and curatorially monitored by Paula Borghi, the residency engages artists who understand art as an affection capable of empowering life.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: April 7, 2022
- Residency: April 11–25, 2022 (two weeks)
Eligibility
Multidisciplinary artists who understand art as an affection capable of empowering life. Kaaysá offers one full scholarship and two partial scholarships, especially to artists of African descent and indigenous people. Special conditions of collaboration are available upon request.
What's Included
- Accommodation in single suite
- Collective studio, carpentry, kiln, recording studio, sewing machine, and other work equipment
- Indoor and outdoor projectors
- Free internet access
Fee
- Investment/collaboration: US$ 800.00
- Discounts and scholarships available on a case-by-case basis
- Kaaysá can provide a letter of acceptance to support funding applications
Application Requirements
- Portfolio with 10 images (low resolution, maximum 10 Mb total)
- Short resume (300 words maximum)
- Completed form (download and fill out)
- For Brazilians: RG and CPF or CNH
- For foreigners: ID and passport with valid visa for the residency dates
Program
Talk, exhibition, and workshop are optional. The residency aims to work with affections that cross, touch, and awaken the body to poetic, conceptual production attentive to global events and agendas.
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- WhatsApp: +55 11 98348-7849
- Entry fee
- US$ 800.00 (with scholarships and discounts available upon request)
- Theme
- Art as a practice capable of acting both macropolitically and micropolitically; working with affections that awaken the body to poetic, conceptual production attentive to global events and agendas.
- Eligibility
- Open to multidisciplinary artists; Kaaysá offers special consideration and scholarships to artists of African descent and indigenous people.
- Audience
- Multidisciplinary artists who understand art as an affection capable of empowering life
- Contact
- [email protected]
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