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This residency invites visual artists to explore and create new relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces through individual studio-based experimentation and collective inquiry, focusing on performance art.
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Get matched →Explore and create new relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces through individual studio-based experimentation and collective inquiry. This program invites visual artists to think expansively about performance, and how performance emerges through movement, stillness, reading, listening, endurance, care, and collective action. Further, it invites artists to investigate the ways that performance and materiality intersect, considering how images and forms are activated, transformed, and given meaning through embodied interaction. Banff’s extraordinary landscape and natural surroundings inevitably become collaborators in the creative process, offering opportunities for site-responsive and place-based investigations.
This residency is for individual artists or duos (no more than two collaborators) at any stage of their career. Applicants should be available to participate over the entire five-week period of the program; have completed formal training in visual arts at the post-secondary level or have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers acquired through traditional knowledge and practices. This program is designed to cater to visual artists working in, but not limited to, practices in ceramics, digital media, painting, drawing, printmaking, papermaking, performance art, photography, or sculpture and installation. Banff Centre welcomes applicants of all ages (18+), backgrounds, gender identities and expressions to apply. Artists from historically underrepresented and equity deserving groups are especially welcome.
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Artists are assigned individual studios with access to shared production facilities. Knowledgeable staff are available to provide technical assistance. Facility access is based on availability of facilitators and priority goes to those requesting access in their initial applications.
We are pleased to offer a range of scholarships to support participants in our programs. Program participants receive a Banff Centre Arts Scholarship that covers the cost of tuition, plus a contribution towards accommodation and meals.