Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is now inviting proposals for the
Workshops, Residencies, Seminars Under its Arts Practice Programme to create situations which foster exchange, dialogue, debate, learning, and mentorship.
This may include residencies that nurture artists, encourage collaboration and facilitate experimentation; workshops, seminars or other forms of gathering that help build knowledge, generate insight and expand arts practice/s.
The Arts Practice programme seeks to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.
Historically, important breakthroughs in artistic methods, materials and concepts came about, when artists from different generations with various experiences, across regions, put their heads together, to discuss, innovate and improvise techniques and ideas. Today, workshops, residencies and seminars that reflect on arts practice, become significant spaces for artistic peer networks that bring together an unforeseen confluence of energies, to explore how practices are evolving and where they are headed. These events could also become enabling spaces for listening to hitherto unheard voices.
Funding Information
- Budget: Up to a maximum of Rs 3,00,000/-
- Duration of the project: Upto 6 months
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible to send project proposals if you are an Indian national.
- Your collaborators too must be Indian nationals.
- The programme invites proposals from practitioners working within as well as across disciplines. These could include:
- Performing artists working in music, sound, text, dance, movement, theatre, puppetry, storytelling, magic, circus and other performance arts
- Visual artists working across all forms including film (documentary and fiction), animation, photography, installation, new media, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, interactive arts, gaming, painting, sculpture, printmaking, comic book, graphic narrative, artist book and other visual arts
- Curators, especially those working outside of the gallery context
- Poets, novelists, playwrights working with literary arts
- Practitioners engaged in interdisciplinary work
For more information, visit https://indiaifa.org/programmes/arts-practice/request-for-proposals/workshops-residencies-seminars.html
