ArtCall – Transcultures residency 2018 – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – Charleroi

Selection Criteria / Eligibility Requirements

• The MAP program, which is part of this residence, focuses on young emerging artists from all spheres of expression who live in one of the countries of the European Union (except Belgium) or Pépinièrs associated countries with the capacity to propose a project in the field of digital/media/sound arts (arts + science / technology / research / innovation …).
• A group of artists (maximum 2 people) can respond to the call, taking into account that the budgetary conditions remain the same.
• The following artworks are eligible: sound/multimedia interactive installations, mobile applications (smarphones, digital tablets), generative and networked artworks, bioart and virtual/augmented reality projects, multidisciplinary digital creations …
• The submission could be a new creation, an adaptation or a a new version of previous works already produced (under the condition of fitting into the technical and financial conditions of the call).
• The artistic project must be able to be developed on local territory (and will include at least an awareness-raising campaign with local partners) in agreement with Transcultures and its partners.
• Special attention will be given to projects related to contemporary and/or innovative societal issues.
• The artistic proposal and all production costs must be able to fit into the technical and financial conditions of the call.

Budgetary Conditions

This residence residence is provided with an all-inclusive and a stay between 8 and 12 weeks maximum (at 300€/week > max. 3600€ in total per residence) and accommodation in the city center of Charleroi, as well as artistic and technical follow-up, needed equipment and assistance to communication.

How to participate ?

Send a complete file of your project (see below) to Jacques Urbanska, project manager at Transcultures – urbanskaj@hotmail.com (object: Residence Pépinières Transcultures 2018).

If you do not receive an acknowledgment of receipt to your application within 5 days, don’t hesitate to send it back (attention to the subject of your email which must be: Residence Pépinières Transcultures 2018)

If you have any doubt or questions, don’t hesitate to contact Jacques Urbanska.

Structure of the file(s) to be sent by email
(text or pdf format)

• a text presenting your artistic approach and your motivation
• a presentation of the project, including a preliminary production schedule
• a forecast technical sheet
• a recent complete CV/bio of the principal artist and a short presentation of his potential collaborators
• some important documents to illustrate your approach / previous artistic works or projects: images links (Flickr or others), audio links (Soundcloud or others), video links (Vimeo or others) …

These documents must be in French or English.

Jury

The jury will be composed of the Transcultures team as well as some professional guests of contemporary arts and local partners. The result will be announced directly to the candidates by e-mail within the days following the deadline of the call and will be published on the websites of the European pepinieres for Young Artists and Transcultures.

*About Pepinières européennes

Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes facilitate and foster the mobility of young artists, in view of their professionalisation on the european and international scenes. In order to implement these actions, Pépinières develop mobility, artistic creation, coproduction, dissemination and training programmes federated by the concept “Encounter and joint creation”, that enable young artists and creative professionals to develop artistic projects to be shared with the audiences they encounter.

Attentive to the movements of the contemporary arts’ scene, the residencies are for the emerging artists from all disciplines who explore new practices by crossing fields of expression. The program aims to support young artists and creative players in their professionalization course and facilitates openness to various forms of artistic creation, multiplicity of experiences, the crossing of artistic fields and mutual enrichment.