Term: 02/07/2015 - 27/07/2015
S-AIR in association with Curators' Network is offering a fully funded 3 months residency opportunity in Sapporo, Japan, from October to December 2015.
The call is free of charge. Deadline for the submission of applications is July 27, 2015, midnight, Madrid, CEST timezone.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to communicate with Japanese artists and the local community, to learn about Japan and to establish networks and dialogues between local and international artists. The selected artist will be expected to produce new works and will be encouraged to experiment in his/her own field.
S-AIR will provide the following:
Travel and material fees can only be reimbursed in cash (Japanese YEN) after arrival in Japan in exchange with the receipt of the flight and with boarding passes (showing the date of purchase, amount of payment, travel itinerary and name of the passenger). Participants are strongly advised to bring enough money to cover the initial spending for the first month.
The successful candidates are required to arrange for his/her own return journey to Sapporo as well as his/her insurance in advance. Please note that those who require visa to enter Japan or those without travel insurance are not eligible for this opportunity. To find out whether your country has visa exemption arrangements with Japan, visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan website.
Applications have to be submitted online through the form contained on this site. Ensure that all required attachments are included. Incomplete or incorrect applications will not be considered. Please note that there is a 5MB limit for each archive that has to be uploaded.
Besides of filling out the forms as indicated, you should upload two pdf documents:
A filled out template of the cover sheet:
Please download the cover letter template on this page, fill it out, save it and upload it where requiered.
An Artistic Resume (no template provided, please create your own document) that should include:
Deadline: Applications should be submitted online NO LATER THAN Monday 27th July 2015 at Midnight [Madrid, CEST].
Selection: The resident will be chosen on the basis of the submitted applications. A shortlist will be made by a jury of Curators' Network members Sören Meschede (hablarenarte:), Borbála Szalai (independent curator), Anca Verona Mihulet (independent curator) and Jürgen Tabor (Galerie im Taxispalais). The final selection will be made by the selection committee at S-AIR.
Notification: The successful artist will be notified by Wednesday 12th of August 2015.
Residency: Up to 90 days between 29 Sep - 27 Dec 2015. Final dates for arrival and departure to and from Japan to be agreed between S-AIR and the resident.
S-AIR was established in 1999 with partial funding by The Agency for Cultural Affairs, to run an artist-in-residence programme in Sapporo, Japan. Since it was approved to be a non-profit organisation in 2004, S-AIR started a 10-year collaborative residency project with ICC, in which we have been building networks with Japanese and international artists as well as art institutions in Japan and overseas. In 2011, S-AIR initiated a new programme, FRONTIER, which is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In April 2013, S-AIR has moved its office to central Sapporo, and so far has hosted 84 artists in total from 34 countries over the period of 16 years (as of March 2015).
http://www.curators-network.eu
Curators’ Network is a platform which works since 2010 for the interconnection and the exchange of the local knowledge and for the mutual benefit of all implicated art professionals and their institutions. The general aim of Curators’ Network is to foster the international promotion and interconnection of art professionals who live and work in environments that can be considered peripheral to the main centres of contemporary art. It seeks making visible these professionals on an international scale as well as transferring local knowledge to an international community and vice versa. The activities of Curators’ Network are real-life events that are always combined with tools of digital promotion.
Curators' Network
Georg Zolchow (hablarenarte:)
georg at hablarenarte.com
NPO S-AIR
3F-A, North 6 East 2-2-10, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, 060-0906 JAPAN
www.s-air.org
info@s-air.org
Closed on 27/07/2015.