For emerging artists, critics and/or researchers
Deadline: 12 April, 2012
Application fee: none
Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of three leading European schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD – Genève and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. This international researcher-in-residence program is dedicated to the practice of art in public space, critical approaches to landscape/ borders and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. Located in Marfa, Texas, USA, this outstanding platform is intended for emerging artists, critics and/or researchers. Residents are selected on the basis of the singularity of specific projects they present.
Fieldwork: Marfa caters to emerging artists, critics and/or researchers whose projects require immersion into the specific environment of Marfa and Texas territory, necessitating movement through geography as well as time and space for the purposes of specific research work. The program comes with a research grant, enabling the applicants to produce theoretical and/or practical work using their own methodologies, with support from a number of professional partners, specialized stakeholders and educational institutions.
Fieldwork: Marfa is an inter-school research group that provides a framework for the incursions and endeavors of researchers-in-residence. The work itself fuels various joint projects, in the form of an ongoing annual program based on the participants´ residency schedules.
Researchers will present the output of their residency projects in the context of:
· A series of workshops and symposia alternating between the three schools, including working sessions held before and after the residency in Marfa
· A schedule of exhibitions and meetings based on the research projects, held on home ground, in Marfa;
· An editorial program with an annual publication showcasing the contributions or reports from various researchers, students or occasional guests.
How to apply
Residency period : up to 2 months in February-March 2013
Step 1: Fill the application form
Step 2: Send other informations and datas to the e-mail addess below (everything has to fit into one single PDF file - max 10 Mo) :
1) CV/biography: precise on the heading your complete contact details, place and date of birth
2) Statement: description of your own work
3) Project: description of your project for the research-residency in Marfa
4) Port-Folio: Artists and curators are required to document past projects.
5) Texts: Theoreticians must present a selection of texts.
6) Appendix: links to external websites (videos, sounds…)
Please name your PDF file with your last name and first name as follow: LASTNAME-Firstname.pdf
Applications more than one single file and more than 10 Mo will not be accepted.
Step 3: The preselectioned candidates will be informed by May 15th, 2012
Step 4: The final selection will be published on http://www.fieldworkmarfa.org/ in June, 2012
Fieldwork: Marfa research program TX 79843 Marfa Texas, USA [email protected]
http://www.fieldworkmarfa.org/
