Deadline: 10th October 2023 | Open Call For Constructing Care A Research-Based Residency Project
By joining Maribor-based and Slovene artists, researchers, activists, and socially conscious cultural practitioners in knowledge production, GuestRoomMaribor invites artists and cultural professionals to explore the local communities of care, including affinity groups, day care centres, personal carers’ unions, and families involved in care.
FOR TIMELY UPDATES JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL AND TELEGRAM 1 , TELEGRAM 2 CHANNELS
A research-based residency project called Constructing Care seeks to solve the global care crises’ problems from a regional standpoint. The residency also intends to promote cultural output, such as a fresh piece of art or exhibition strategy. The long-term goal is to develop and present an exhibition on the art of care based on the resonances of the residency Constructing Care (for 2025). Together with a meaningful creative engagement in the communities they are getting to know throughout the residence period, the aim is to forge long-lasting relationships among the residents that can be used in their future work. Applications that address care as an intimate, personal, and interpersonal act are encouraged, as are proposals that consider the political aspects of the care crisis, such as the lack of adequate state support, the connection between care workers and migration, feminised labour in the care industry, and the gender aspect of the invisible unpaid care work, among other issues. In order to portray the care community as a self-aware and empowered affinity group, the project will strengthen networking among the included artists and the local scene.
A specially designed programme offered by GuestRoomMaribor fosters a collaborative environment and promotes multidisciplinary participation. The programme also provides opportunities for professional growth, such as talks by academics and scholars and mentorship sessions. Additionally, all residency-related content will be distributed online both during and after the residency time. There will be 5 residents staying with them for the full 35 days of the residency (excluding travel days).
They Provide
- 25 euros every day, multiplied by 35 days, equals 875 euros.
- Travel allowance: 350 euros or 700 euros (350 euros if you travel less than 600 kilometres, or 350 euros plus 350 euros (top-up) if you travel between 600 and 5,000 km).
- Green top-up: no flight both directions; 350 EUR for distances of more than 600 kilometres
- Visa stipend 80 EUR
- Family top-up of 100 EUR is available to residents with one or more children under the age of ten.
- Disability Support for participants with special requirements related to disabilities up to EUR 75 per day
- Free lodging in different buildings
- Support for production and curation
They anticipate the candidate to
- Present their artistic work or other cultural activity in front of an audience at the start of the residence.
- During the residency, actively engage in care-related research and create a project or a concept for a project in the field of care in conversation with other residents, mentors, and activists.
- attend internal and external events on the topic of care that will be planned during the residence (they will host a reading circle, an exhibition, a panel discussion with experts in the field, and visits to institutions and communities that provide care).
- At the conclusion of the residence, take part in the final public presentation of the results of the study or creative process.
- Be in Maribor for the full time the residence initiative is taking place.
eligibility for Open Call For Constructing Care A Research-Based Residency Project
- Painting, drawing, photography, video art, graphic arts, digital arts, sculpture, site-specific practises, relational aesthetics, community arts and performance arts, curation, and other forms of visual, performative, and relational art will all be accepted.
- Applicants must be legal residents of one of the Creative Europe countries beyond Slovenia: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine; Including: Overseas Countries and Territories: Aruba (The Netherlands), Bonaire (The Netherlands), Curaçao (The Netherlands), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (France), Greenland (Denmark), New Caledonia (France), Saba (The Netherlands), Saint Barthelemy (France), Sint Eustatius (The Netherlands), Sint Maarten (The Netherlands), St. Pierre and Miquelon (France), and Wallis and Futuna Islands (France) and Outermost Regions: Azores (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), French Guiana (France), Guadeloupe (France), Madeira (Portugal), Martinique (France), Mayotte (France), Reunion Island (France), and Saint-Martin (France).
Selection Standards
- A timely, thorough, and English-language application with a clear draught of the study area related to the topic of care and references from the candidate regarding non-normative methods of behaving and thinking about social and/or natural events, including artistic ones.
- A reflective attitude towards the social, cultural, historical, or political context of the local community is also encouraged in the invitation to applicants who are research-oriented or who see the research process as an essential component of the artistic-creative process rather than reducing it to the research of the artistic medium or the visualisation of data.
For more information, visit GuestRoomMaribor.
