Deadline: 1-Aug-22
Applications are now open for the Black Spatial Relics Residency Program 2022-2023 to support the development of 8 new performance works that address and incorporate public histories of slavery and contemporary issues of justice.
The artists-in-residence should pay particular attention to land and/or water based histories, presences and futures of Black fugitivity, subjugation and liberation. Past artists in residence have engaged both contemporary and historical violences and/or contemporary, legacy-based and future-dreaming practices of freedom in the midst of the trans-atlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, and many other contemporary and longstanding anti-Black violences.
This residency seeks to dislodge the binary between making work about Black pain or Black joy to hold space for radical Black people (who name and locate themselves as artists and cultural workers) finding, recalling, and rehearsing embodiments and repertoires of Black freedom and ancestor reverence in the midst of too long enduring anti-Black violence. This residency endeavors to amplify, support and celebrate these artists who are both practicing and gesturing toward free Black existences for the sake of the collective dreaming and liberation.
Award
- Development Support: An award in the amount of $2,500 will be granted to each artist or each group of artists selected as part of this residency. The award will be paid over two installments (upon acceptance of the award and upon completion of the workshop for the convening).
- Research and Dramaturgical Support: Selected artists will be supported with research and dramaturgical support in both one on one and cohort settings.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposals from individual artists or groups are welcome.
- Applicants must meet the following criteria to be considered:
- Live in the United States or Caribbean and be English-speaking;
- Identify as Black and/or be of African descent;
- Be artist(s) engaged in the practice of making performance;
- Be prepared to participate and share their work in the 2023 convening.
- Be available to develop new work based on the BSR Residency criteria and within the scheduled outlined;
- Be in conversation with histories, futures and practices of subjugation, fugitivity and liberation.
- Optional: Be additionally supported by a host not-for-profit organization or institution that will help develop and continue the presentation of the new work.
Selection Criteria
- The BSR artists-in-residence will be selected based on criteria that includes, but is not limited to, the following requirements:
- A demonstrated ability and commitment to developing new performance work in keeping with the themes and concerns of the residency.
- Strong collaborative work history as represented in work samples.
- Strong relationship to research (of all forms).
- Track record of partnerships with local entities (coalitions, collectives, businesses, places of worship, organizations and/or cultural institutions in home region).
- Black women, queer folks, trans* and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.blackspatialrelics.org/air-2022-app