Deadline: 16-Aug-21
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is inviting applications for its Arts Practice Programme 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.
Explorations
- While practicing the arts they might sometimes stumble upon an idea or feel an urge to venture into a direction that is fresh and exciting. However, given the context and location of their practice, these ideas may be unfamiliar and thus the impending journeys into its foray, tentative and uncertain. They may at the time know nothing about where it will lead them to or what it might clearly mean for their present practice. And yet they feel the draw, understand its import and sense the necessity of following through. A little support at these times may be of help.
- Under the Arts Practice programme, they invite proposals for such Explorations that seek to probe, test and play around with ideas that are nascent, risky or unprecedented, which may or may not lead into the making of an artwork later on. This could include researching, script-writing, location scouting, animatics, jamming, storyboarding, rehearsing, sampling, robotics, lab explorations and other forms of exploratory work that are used to examine ideas.
Funding Information
- Duration of the project: Up to 6 months
- Budget: Up to a maximum of Rs 75,000/-
Who can send project proposals?
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
Eligibility Criteria
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) implements Foundation Projects under its various programmes. The criteria for eligibility to apply under these programmes are as follows:
- Only Indian nationals can apply. This does not include PIO (Persons of Indian Origin) and OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) Card Holders
- Only individuals can apply. Organisations of any kind cannot apply
- If there are collaborators in the projects, they must also be Indian nationals
- Persons who have a past history of financial delinquency with IFA are not eligible
- Persons who have failed to deposit at IFA agreed deliverables from an earlier IFA grant are not eligible
- Persons who have previously received a letter from IFA disallowing them from applying in the future for any reason are not eligible
For more information, visit https://indiaifa.org/whats-new/ap-rfp/explorations.html