Final Call For Artists en 15th May
Final Call For Artists en 15th May
In the framework of
Artists in Architecture. Re-Activating Modern European Houses
Artist residencies will be organized as a means to galvanise the tangible and intangible
heritage values of European domestic architecture.
A series of houses in Italy, Belgium, Spain and Romania have been selected and will host
contemporary artists to reflect and work in situ.
- private houses
- architecturally significant
- witnesses of European 20th century history through the cultural figures who used to
live in there.
1. Your role as an artist in this project
Following the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018’s key phrase “where the past meets
the future” the main objective is to create an intergenerational and interdisciplinary
dialogue to define a contemporary vision based on the tangible and intangible heritage
values of these houses.
The work you will create will have to express a particular relationship with the house and
its heritage challenges and will find the power to “re-activate” a historical modern house.
Your proposal will also need to take into consideration the public as part of a dynamic for a
developing public awareness: your role is also to arouse curiosity about these houses with a
fresh perspective.
The outcome of the residency thus consists in 1 object, text, video, installation, etc.
susceptible of being presented to the public both in the house itself as well as at another
nearby location. In situ interventions are possible to the extent that they are reversible
and/or produced in dialogue with the current owners of each house.
The outcome of the residencies will also be visible in the three partners’ institutions (BOZAR
Brussels, the University of Naples-Frederic II and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in
Barcelona), including in the form of an exhibition wall in the venues as well as on the
partners’ communication channels. Audio-visual material will be used to document the
project and the evolution of the residencies.
You will be in close contact with architecture students, providing an important work of
analysis and historical research on each house selected for the residencies. The documents
will be transmitted to each artist, after identification of a sensitive heritage-related issue.
1. Criteria to apply:
You are:
accommodation for a period of max. 2 weeks in one of the houses selected in either
Italy, Spain, Belgium or Romania. The artist will either sleep in the house or in an
accommodation nearby, depending on the house.
reimbursement of travel costs to the residency.
a small budget for living expenses, production costs and artistic fees will be granted
for each artist in residence.
reimbursement of the artist's personal insurance for his stay in the house.
TIMING
Open call: April 3 – May 15 2019
Jury deliberation:
o First round: selection by the project partners
o Second round: allocation of an artist to a house based on a jury per house consisting
of the organizer, a heritage expert, and the current inhabitant
Deadline for the publication of the final selection of the artists: June 10 2019
Period of the residency: 2 weeks between June 15 and September 30 2019
depending on the house you are selected for
HOW TO APPLY
Please send us the following three documents in a single PDF to
[email protected]:
- your detailed CV (1 A4)
- your portfolio
- your motivation to be part of this project and your personal ranking of the six selected
residencies (1 A4)