Deadline: 21-Nov-21
S+T+ARTS has launched an open call for international artists to join in coming up with solutions to these challenges in 21 artist fellowships.
The fellowships will encourage artists to critique the present, explore beyond its current limitations and reimagine sustainable futures.
S+T+ARTS seeks artists with a strong motivation to help change behaviours, reduce waste, fight climate change, improve energy efficiency or make cities and communities more sustainable – in essence, a motivation to challenge existing actions and propose more responsible and sustainable ones. Besides the motivation, artists should have proven experience working with technologies (with a focus on ICT technologies) and integrating them into their artistic practice.
As a first step, each Regional S+T+ARTS Center has gathered a group of local experts and together defined 21 challenges in their localities. The 21 challenges have been informed by the EU Green Deal, the New European Bauhaus and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to reflect pan-European or global issues that nonetheless, require a focus on local regions.
The fellowships will take place between February 2022 and July 2022. The maximum duration of the fellowship is set at 6 months. During these 6 months, the artist will be required to be physically present at the partner institution for work meetings with the partners of the supporting network. The frequency and duration of these meetings will be decided upon by mutual consent between the artist and the partner institution. After the fellowship, the artist is expected to contribute to the preparations of prototyping parks and other dissemination events.
Benefits
- Up to EUR 40.000 budget for artist fellowships to cover the artist fee and other fellowship-related costs (including but not limited to artwork/prototype production, transportation to joint Prototyping Park exhibitions, travel and accommodation expenses, insurance)
- Access to the regional fellowship host organisation and local expert group
- Access to the Europe-wide S+T+ARTS network
- Access to new technologies and R&D departments
- Participation in Prototyping Parks showcasing the outcomes of the fellowships at MAXXI Rome, ZKM Karlsruhe, as well as at regional locations of the Regional S+T+ARTS Centers upon selection
- Visibility through high impact communication activities to promote the artistic output and its innovation spillovers (including dissemination events foreseen from July-December 2022)
Eligibility Criteria
- In this Open Call for proposals, applicants can apply as individual artists or collectives.
- Applicants can be legally established as self-employed individuals (freelancers) or SMEs registered under NACE Code ‘9003 Artistic Creation’ who undertake artistic activities as a professional occupation.
- Artists must have already produced several artworks for the jury to evaluate their artistic experience. Artists will be asked to submit 2 to 4 works as examples of previous work through the portfolio section in the application form.
- Previous experience collaborating with industrial companies and / or research institutions will be valued, but is not a condition for participation.
- Note that individual artists or collectives of individual artists from any country in the world are eligible provided that they can travel to Europe for the Repairing the Present program and always provided that the Covid-19 situation allows it.
For more information, visit https://www.starts.eu/starts-regional-centres-repairing-the-present/