Deadline: 16-Aug-2023
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is accepting proposals for the Arts Research programme to foster wider perspectives, understandings, interpretations, and engagements in the arts.
The Arts Research programme engages scholars, researchers, and practitioners to research the various histories and expressions of artistic practices in India.
IFA invites proposals for the Arts Research programme from researchers and practitioners interested in undertaking research projects implemented by IFA. These projects could investigate marginalised or relatively unexplored areas; intend to create spaces for dialogue between theory and practice; offer new readings of artistic practices; and use interdisciplinary approaches to break new conceptual ground, among other things.
Research projects should have clear research objectives, in-depth background surveys, critical research questions, rigorous context-based methodologies, and specific outcomes that will be shared in the public domain. The outcomes could be books, essays, films, websites, multimedia exhibitions, etc.
Funding Information
- You can budget up to Rs 5,00,000/-
- Duration of the Project: A minimum duration of one year and a maximum of 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The programme is open to proposals from individual scholars, researchers, and practitioners, across disciplines.
- You are eligible to apply if you are an Indian national. Your collaborators need to be Indian nationals, too.
- 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.
- Applicants must have PAN card and one of the following for proof of identity and citizenship – Indian Passport or Aadhar Card or Voter’s ID in India.
- Only individuals can apply. Organisations of any kind cannot apply (except for non-profit schools, who can only apply under the Arts-Integrated Projects in Schools category of the Arts Education programme).
- 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.
- Persons currently working on a project implemented by IFA are not eligible to apply.
- More than one individual can apply if they have a joint account. If they do not, then only one among them should apply with the others as collaborators.
For more information, visit IFA.