Deadline: 15 February 2019
The Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF) and Asia Art Archive (AAA) in India are announced the SSAF–AAA Research Grant for Histories of Ideas, Art Writing, and Visual Culture 2019. This grant, which marks the second year of collaboration between SSAF and AAA in India, emerges from AAA’s ongoing engagement with histories of art writing, and its initiatives to map, compile, translate, and republish texts from various contexts. This grant is in line with SSAF’s commitment to work with cross-disciplinary initiatives addressing the oppressed and the marginalised, and alternative and heterodox practices in the arts and in intellectual work.
Aims
The grant aims to:
- Support research on critical histories of art writing, art-making, and visual culture in twentieth/twenty-first century India and other countries of South Asia, with a focus on their manifestations in print form such as books, journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Open research avenues into dalit, feminist, peasant, working-class, and other political histories, viewed as a constituent part of wider discursive fields, specific regional milieu, and the politics of image-making and circulation.
- Help develop tools and methods for critical art historical analyses of regional discourses and debates in politics and culture, preferably in but not limited to the regional languages.
- Researchers are encouraged to propose projects that open new areas of study; offer close readings of images and texts; map circuits of dissemination; and suggest new connections between the visual arts, existing intellectual histories, and social, political, and cultural movements.
Grant Information
- Grant Amount: Up to INR 3,00,000
- Duration of Grant: One year | May 2019–April 2020
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals who are Indian nationals residing in India, or collectives whose members are Indian nationals residing in India.
- Individuals with relevant academic qualifications; or who are already engaged in research, with access to private or public collections; or who have professional experience in writing/publishing; or activists with years of engagement/experience in their chosen fields.
Guidelines for Research Proposals/Topics
- Research proposals with clearly defined objectives and an outline of the significance of the proposed area/topic of research
- Research topics that are interdisciplinary and attentive to social movements
- Research topics that engage with regional cultures and languages
- Research topics that focus on modern and contemporary art and visual cultures
- Proposals feasible for completion within the given duration of the grant
- Proposals can be connected to ongoing research, and this grant can be used for furtherance of work that is already under way
How to Apply
All applications along with supporting documents are submitted via given website.
For more information, please visit https://aaa.org.hk/en/programmes/programmes/ssafaaa-research-grant-for-histories-of-ideas-art-writing-and-visual-culture-2019