Open Calls

Open call – Mustarinda 2024 residencies

MUSTARINDA ARTIST / WRITER / RESEARCHER / GROUP RESIDENCIES 2024
Open call from 18.9.2023

Working periods:

SPRING:
2 weeks from January 15.1. – 29.1.2024
1 month periods February – April

AUTUMN: 
1 month periods October & November.

2 weeks from December 02.12. – 16.12.2024

Application deadline: 22nd October 2023

The Open Call welcomes all manner of practices, mediums, practitioners, and projects and is not thematic. Mustarinda is a community in the making since 2009. At its centre lies contemporary art, boundary-crossing research, practical experimentation, communication, education and events. In addition to our residency program, the Mustarinda Association is involved in, and leading, a number of projects, collaborations, and long-term goals that continue to shape the Mustarinda organism.

Mustarinda in 2024

Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the multitude of ongoing ecological crises influence the lives of all communities, human and otherwise. Strengthening communities and social cohesion is essential when adjusting to the rapidly changing climate and environment. Mustarinda seeks ways to ensure that we are all kept afloat together through the ecological transition whilst also building paths towards a post-fossil future. 

In 2024 Mustarinda works towards cultural shifts and ecological transition also through ongoing local community-based work. Our Sinipyrstö-project (partly funded by the European Union), brings a focus on the local Ylä-Kainuu inhabitants and works to build stronger, more resilient communities and ecosocial wellbeing through art and nature experiences.

Mustarina also engages politically towards the wellbeing of the forest and local communities through the Art National Park, a longer term initiative intending to promote situated cultures and ecological sustainability hand-in-hand. In addition to nature protection and the highlighting of environmental values that are key to the region’s unique ecosystems and geology, the multi-disciplinary art program embedded in the concept of the Art National Park is a significant factor for leading the cultural change in the wider ecological transition. The ecological transition not only means systemic changes, but also changes in values, lifestyles, labour and employment.

We welcome you to think along with us during your residency and beyond. However, this is not a brief for a thematic residency and your individual or collective practice is valued in its own right. The open call is for wherever your research, process, focus, or need for time and space takes you.
For more information and how to apply: www.mustarinda.fi/residency


Avoin haku Mustarindan residensseihin 2024

MUSTARINDAN TAITEILIJA- / KIRJOITTAJA- / TUTKIJA- / RYHMÄRESIDENSSEIHIN vuodelle 2024 haku auki 18.9.2023 alkaen

Haettavana seuraavat residenssijaksot:

KEVÄT:
2 viikkoa tammikuussa 15.1. – 29.1.2024
1 kuukauden jaksot helmi-huhtikuussa

SYKSY:
1 kuukauden jaksot loka-marraskuussa

2 viikkoa joulukuussa 02.12. – 16.12.2024

Hakemuksen viimeinen jättöpäivä: 22. lokakuuta 2023

Residenssihaku on avoinna erilaisille tekijöille, praktiikoille, tekniikoille ja projekteille eikä ole temaattinen. Mustarinda on jo vuodesta 2009 lähtien muotoutunut yhteisö, jonka ytimessä ovat nykytaide, rajoja rikkova tutkimus, käytännön kokeilut, kasvatus, tapahtumat ja viestintä. Residenssiohjelman lisäksi Mustarinda-seura toteuttaa paljon erilaisia projekteja ja yhteistyöhankkeita työskennellen pitkän aikavälin tavoitteiden eteen.

Mustarinda vuonna 2024

Ilmastonmuutos, luontokato ja meneillään olevat ympäristökriisit koskettavat niin ihmisten kuin muidenkin yhteisöjen elämää. Yhteisöjen vahvistaminen ja sosiaalinen yhteenkuuluvuus ovat elintärkeitä sopeutuessamme nopeasti muuttuvaan ilmastoon ja ympäristöön. Mustarinda etsii tapoja pitää kaikki mukana yhteiskunnassa ekologisen siirtymän aikana, rakentaen samalla polkuja kohti post-fossiilista tulevaisuutta.

Vuonna 2024 Mustarinda työskentelee kulttuurisen muutoksen ja ekologisen siirtymän eteen paikallisen yhteisötyön kautta. Meidän Sinipyrstö-projektimme (EU:n osarahoittama) keskiössä ovat Ylä-Kainuun asukkaat ja yhteisöjen vahvistaminen sekä ekososiaalisen hyvinvoinnoin tukeminen luonto- ja taidekokemusten keinoin.

Teemme työtä metsän ja paikallisten yhteisöjen hyvinvoinnin eteen myös Taidekansallispuisto-esityksen kautta. Taidekansallispuisto on pitkän aikavälin aloite, jonka tarkoituksena on tuoda esiin paikallista kulttuuria ekologisesti kestävällä tavalla. Luonnonsuojelun ja alueen ainutlaatuisten ekosysteemien ja geologian kannalta keskeisten ympäristöarvojen korostamisen lisäksi Taidekansallispuiston ideaan sisältyvä monialainen taideohjelma on merkittävässä osassa, kun halutaan johtaa kulttuurista muutosta laajemmassa ekologisessa siirtymässä. Ekologinen siirtymä ei tarkoita vain systeemistä muutosta, vaan muutosta arvoissa, elämäntavoissa, työssä ja työllistymisessä.

Kutsumme sinut ajattelemaan yhdessä kanssamme residenssijaksosi aikana ja sen jälkeen. Tämä ei kuitenkaan ole temaattinen residenssikutsu, johon hakemus olisi sovitettava, vaan jokainen yhteisöllinen/yksilöllinen praktiikka arvioidaan omana itsenään. Residenssi on sitä varten että tutkimus, praktiikka, prosessi, fokus tai kaivattu tila ja aika voivat kuljettaa sinut tarvitsemaasi suuntaan.

Lisätietoja ja hakuoheet: www.mustarinda.fi/residency

Dance Exchange’s 2023 OAC Climate Institute 

Application deadline: May 10 

Apply to join us July 20-23 for an in-person, climate-focused version of our annual Organizing with Artists for Change Summer Institute. The Institute will gather artists and climate workers from across the country to explore, energize, and advance creative solutions on the frontlines of the climate crisis. 

The Institute is co-directed by Cassie Meador, Dance Exchange Executive Artistic Director, and Dr. Jamē McCray, Interdisciplinary Ecologist and Future Fields Co-Director, with additional support from Amanda Newman, Dance Exchange Associate Director of Programs. Additional guest artists and experts will be announced in the coming months. 

During the 2023 Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute, you will…

  • Move together in movement classes designed for all ages and all abilities
  • Learn new creative tools and practices for socially-engaged artmaking and creative community engagement
  • Experience and contribute to Dance Exchange projects at the intersection of artmaking and climate
  • Meet other artists, thinkers, leaders, and community members invested in the power and potential of artmaking and creative engagement within the climate movement.

In an effort to gather a community of artists, climate workers, and community members diverse in lived experience, geographic location, expertise/discipline, and experience within the climate movement, we are requiring applications for this year’s Institute. 

Artist callout: Transforming audience travel through art

Perth Theatre and Concert Hall and Creative Carbon Scotland are recruiting a creative practitioner to work on a new project exploring sustainable travel. Drawing on your own artistic practice, the role involves contributing to the overall design of the project, running a series of creative workshops, and collaborating with participants to document their journeys to Perth Theatre and Concert Hall. Application form below. 

Summary

Eligibility: Open to any creative practitioner of any discipline. You must be based within easy traveling distance of Perth Theatre and Concert Hall to limit transport emissions associated with the project and ensure a good connection with the local area. We recommend that you should have to travel no more than a maximum of 25 miles to reach the venues. You must have the right to work in the UK.

Fee: £10,800. Based on a Scottish Artist Union day-rate of £336. A budget is also available to cover expenses for artist materials and local travel up to a distance of 25 miles from Perth Theatre and Concert Hall.

Time commitment: 30 days, spread across May 2023-March 2024, with the majority of time falling during July 2023-November 2023 (see below for an estimated breakdown). Timing is flexible, but will very likely need to involve evening and weekend working to reach the right audiences.

Application: Application form; responses to four questions to be submitted in written or video format, plus equalities monitoring form.

Location: Activities will take place at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall and in some other locations around the Perth region. Some elements of the work can be done remotely from any location. Due to the nature of the role, it is particularly well suited to someone based in or near Perth.

Deadline: Sunday 23 April 2023 23:59pm

A full artist brief is available further down this page. If you have any questions or would like to request a PDF copy of the information, please contact maja.rimer@creativecarbonscotland.com.

FOR MORE INFO AND TO APPLY

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Artist Open Call – The Gallery Season 3

The Gallery is a new kind of cultural institution without walls that challenges traditional models of viewing art. A major project, The Gallery exhibits contemporary art in public spaces traditionally reserved for advertising, to stimulate debate about the important questions of our time.   

Launching September 2023, Season 3 of The Gallery will continue this mission, inviting artists from around the world to respond to the theme:  No But Where Are You Really From?   

“We live in a globalised world of international travel and mass migration. Over the centuries peoples, animals, plants and pathogens have continuously crisscrossed the Earth’s oceans and continents. So, what part does place still play in identity?”   

The Gallery’s Season 3 theme encourages artists to ask timely questions about origin, inclusivity, belonging, transition and exchange. The theme also invites artists to consider what it feels like to be excluded or denied on the one hand, and accepted and embraced on the other.  

Applications close 23:59 BST, Sunday 23 April 2023. 

The call out is open to practitioners aged 18+, working at any level, including students. This initiative exists to champion ground-breaking artworks by artists at any stage of their practice.  Artists can be based anywhere in the world. 

Successful artists receive:  
– A fee of £2,000   
– Support from Creative Director Martin Firrell   
– Support from our exhibition Guest Curator Bakul Patki  
– An international platform to exhibit work – including through the dedicated website at thegallery.org.uk     
– Invitation to exhibition launch in September 2023. If based in the UK, standard travel and one night’s accommodation will be included. For artists based outside of the UK, a travel stipend of £200 towards any/all travel expenses, including visa fees and one night’s accommodation is included.   
– For those based outside the UK, Artichoke will explore additional means of support towards travel costs where possible (e.g from Embassies, Trusts and Foundations).  
– And more… 

To find out more and to apply, please visit The Gallery website

020 7650 7611
(Mon – Fri, 10:00 -18:00)
thegallery@artichoke.uk.com

Call for researcher for NEMO report on climate policies addressing museums

The annual NEMO report in 2023 will offer an overview of climate related policies that address museums in Europe. NEMO will hire an external researcher to conduct and compile the research that will be presented in the report. Proposals from interested researchers are welcome until 31 March 2023.

Following up on NEMO’s 2022 report on the status quo of museums in the climate crisis, the next report will offer an analysis of current climate related policies on national, regional and local level in the 27 member states of the European Union. The researcher is also expected to collect examples of museums from different EU countries implementing and utilizing climate policies in their operations. It is also required that the researcher sets up a practical guide that museums can refer to when utilizing and implementing climate related policies in their work.

  • Find more details about the scope and targets in the call for proposals.
  • Apply by sending a proposal for the research including methodology, timeline and an estimate for your fee until 31 March 2023.
  • The selected researcher will be notified in the beginning of April. The study should be finalised by 1 September 2023. Publication design is made separately by NEMO.

(Top image: Aarhus Art Museum AROS rooftop with solar panels. © Alamy Stock Photo, Image: Wolfgang Diederich)

Project Assistant for the Department of Utopian Arts & Letters

The CSPA Department of Utopian Arts and Letters (DUAL) is a project of the Centre for Sustainable Arts. It is a project of public dreaming born out of desires for decolonization, climate justice, and collective liberation. It envisions Plural Utopias Of the Future (PUOF), each imagined through the radical thinking of diverse artists. DUAL operates within, across, and beyond official governmental and academic departments to empower us with visions of the future to work towards and the necessary “curricula” to dismantle the systems that stand in our way. It offers a free, public education for thriving futures designed by community expert artist “faculty” and organized by counterpart “librarians.”

This Project Assistant will provide administrative and organizational services and support to the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters (DUAL) Project and editorial support for CSPA Publications including DUAL, the CSPA Quarterly and CSPA Reports. In this role, you will work independently utilizing business knowledge, experience, copy, and administrative expertise to deliver value and support the contributions of the DUAL Project and CSPA leadership Team(s). This role is privy to senior leadership matters, communications, correspondence, documents, and decision items and is required to exercise a high level of confidentiality, discretion, diplomacy, and sound judgment.

Project Assistant Job Responsibilities:

  • Provides administrative and editorial support to ensure efficient operation of CSPA Projects.
  • Maintain the CSPA filing system on Google Drive.
  • Support and provide moderation on Mighty Networks learning platform for DUAL program.
  • Coordinate deliverables with artist contributors, graphic designer, and media production contractors.
  • Work alongside DUAL project librarian and CSPA editors to plan, implement, and manage publication schedules.
  • Proofreading manuscripts to identify any grammatical and spelling errors, and ensure accuracy and consistency in citations.
  • Assist with budget preparation and expense tracking.
  • Assist with the creation of reports and presentations, transcription of minutes from meetings.

Qualifications for Project Assistant

  • Prior administrative experience with clerical, secretarial, or office work in a non-profit arts environment
  • Prior experience and interest in environmental issues in the arts.
  • Proficient computer skills, including Google Suite and Slack
  • Ability to cultivate additional computer skills quickly, in particular Mighty Networks community learning platform.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • High degree of attention to detail
  • Data entry experience

Call for Papers – Eco-citizenship, Sustainable Climate, and the Performance Art

Planet, people and practices

Climate action is at the heart of combating climate change because climate change is no longer a travesty. Between 31 October-13 November 2021, world leaders converged at the United Conference of the Parties (COPS26)—the supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to “revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions reduction targets, to align with the Paris temperature goal, and to do that by the end of this year”. At this global event, developed countries were urged to scale up climate finance, specifically to double finance for adaptation by 2025. Less than a year after this summit, Hurricane Ida stroke in the United States, and the world continued the gradual shrinking of the River Euphrates and the incessant forest burns, glacier melts, floods and heat waves in various geographical spaces on the African continent. As COPs 27 held in November 2022 in South Sinai, Egypt, environmental activists and scholars know that the agenda would stand on the shoulders of agendas of previous conventions. Resolutions at previous COPS-such as the 1995 Berlin conference, the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, have always fallen short of their capacity to combat the depletion of the environment and create livable cities.

Could this be a result of the overemphasis on capital? The ongoing planetary crises has led to a critique of capital and a call to end the extraction-based economy, particularly from the Global South (Bassey, 2012). The resource-based system and over-reliance on finance continue to create more room to extract rather than build. The argument is that the continuous acquisition of capital is responsible for the complexity of the quest for world leaders to create liveable societies devoid of climate crises. Scholars such as Lisa Woynarski (2020) looked at bio-performativity as a direction toward rethinking man’s relationship with the environment and giving agency to non-human species. John Forster and Brett Clark (2016) analyze the global environmental crises as caused by capitalism, globalization and neoliberal practices and therefore advocate for ecological revolution driven by anti-capitalist methodologies. The contention here is that the focus on capital by climate change stakeholders (Forster and Clark 2012, Moore 2017), such as what holds sway in the COPs, has done little or nothing to create eco-citizens and sustain climate.

The performance art has navigated the space of anti-anthropocentric methodologies, thereby lending credence to adopting less humanistic systems to create eco-citizens, sustainable climate and livable communities. For instance, Downing Cless’ stage adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1991), and James Cameron’s film Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) are about embracing anti-capitalist and less-humanistic ideologies to combat climate change. In the same vein, many performing art organizations and advocacy groups are using the creative sector to take action against greenhouse gas emissions, hydro-degradation and sustaining climate. Organizations such as the Guardian of the River and Julie’s Bicycle exemplify this drive for an ecological turn. This recent advocacy for anti-anthropogenic approaches, a shift from humanistic perspectives to biocentric methodologies and practices in narratives within the performing arts, is worth exploring. An investigation of this shift can offer new perspectives in pluriverse way of seeing and relating with the environment (Chaudhuri 1994). Hence, this volume addresses the extent to which the performing art (cinema, theatre, literature, music, sculpture and painting) have become sites of discourse on eco-citizenship, eco-centred philosophy, epistemic and ontic beliefs, and practices.

Abstracts are welcome from within specific disciplines of the performing art, e.g., performance studies, theatre studies, history, literature, cultural studies, visual arts, film, dance, and from across disciplines. Themes in this volume could focus on but not limited to:

  • Decolonizing climate action methodologies
  • Eco-cinema and climate action
  • Theatre and eco-citizenship in the global south
  • The performing arts and climate change
  • Theatre and indigenous climate action
  • Politics of inclusion and exclusion of indigenous people
  • Participation and climate crises
  • Sustainable art practices
  • Eco-scenography and climate actions
  • Climate change and policies
  • Greening the performing art
  • Ecocriticism from page to stage; from page to screen

Send an abstract of 300 words and a 100-word bio to the editors– Dr. Taiwo Afolabi and Stephen Okpadah at sustainableclimatebookproject@gmail.com on/before 30th March.

If accepted, the final papers will be due on 30th September 2023. Contributors are to use the MLA 7th Edition referencing style.


Works cited

  • Bassey, Nnimmo. (2012). To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press.
  • Chaudhuri, Una. (1994). There Must Be a Lot of Fish in that Lake: Toward an Ecological Theatre. Theatre Vol. 25 (1): 1-25.
  • Forster, John, and Clark, Brett. (2016). Marx’s Ecology and the Left. Monthly Review. Vol. 68 (2): 37-52.
  • Moore, Jason. (2017). The Capitalocene, Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis. The Journal of Peasant Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1235036
  • Woynarski, Lisa. (2020). Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods

Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invites artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future. 

Artists play a vital role in facing the climate crisis. We encourage artists to guide our collective response to this challenging issue while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional projects seeking transformation for our species and our planet. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually challenged by the effects of environmental degradation. As sea levels and temperatures rise, our landscape acts as a microcosm of the global environment. We look for ways to reimagine our interactions with our shifting urban and natural ecosystems. Rising Residencies provide artists with time, space, funding, and staff support to foster critical thinking in the creation of new works – igniting our imaginations while illuminating our challenges and inspiring solutions.

We are open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues. We ask artists to describe in detail how our unique region will affect their work, propose a public component to their residency, and suggest ways how they will engage with the local community.

Proposals are due April 10, 2023 and residencies will be awarded by June 1, 2023.

Direct questions to Cammie Hill-Prewitt at info@astudiointhewoods.org.

Join us for an online Info Session about applying for Rising Residencies on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 12pm central time. Register here.

2022 Info Session recording is available here.

READ FAQ AND APPLY HERE

Call for artists for EMBracing the Ocean 2023 – 2024 programme

EMB’s artist-in-residence programme ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ provides grants for creative individuals or groups to co-create work with Ocean scientists. It aims to inspire wide reaching societal change for Ocean sustainability by expanding societies’ understanding of the Ocean’s value and the urgency of ensuring its health and resilience now and into the future.

If we are to ensure the effectiveness of scientific solutions developed within the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, society’s relationship with the Ocean must change. The arts are powerful ways to impact society and drive societal change due to their role in conveying human values, ideas, and visions; developing social, cultural, and individual identities; offering innovative approaches to communication and dialogue around complex issues; distilling information; and producing new knowledge and insights. This programme is part of EMB’s support for the Ocean Decade, and contributes to the Ocean Decade societal challenge of an inspiring and engaging Ocean where society understands and values the Ocean in relation to human wellbeing and sustainable development. The EMBracing the Ocean programme additionally supports the goals of the EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters (Mission Ocean) to protect and restore marine ecosystems and biodiversity, prevent and eliminate pollution in our Ocean and to make the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circular. Public mobilisation and engagement are key enablers of the Mission Ocean, for which art plays an important role.

Background information

The Ocean covers 70% of the surface of our planet, forms 95% of the biosphere in terms of volume and is essential for supporting life. The Ocean regulates global climate systems and has absorbed one third of excess carbon dioxide emitted into our atmosphere since the industrial revolution, as well as the majority of Earth’s excess heat. It provides potential for a huge source of renewable energy, coastal protection, recreation and cultural well-being, as well as being an importance source of food and medicine. These benefits that the Ocean provides are dependent on the maintenance of Ocean physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes, healthy and resilient marine ecosystems, and a shift in human activities towards sustainable practices. The Ocean is too often out of sight and out of mind, and is increasingly under threat from human activities including global population growth, pollution (including CO2, nutrients, plastics, noise), climate change, and over-fishing, causing the widespread loss and degradation of marine ecosystems and biodiversity. However, there are solutions which we must embrace and scale-up to overcome global sustainability challenges. This includes the conservation and restoration of key marine ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass; reducing marine pollution; sustainably managing our fisheries and other resource use; and strengthening empathy towards our Ocean.

A key principle of the EMBracing the Ocean programme is co-creation of work between artists and their scientific collaborators. Co-creation is the process of creating something new together while exchanging and reshaping ideas. The artists and scientists are considered equal and each side benefits and learns from the process. The goal of co-created art-science projects should go beyond making complex scientific topics more accessible to the public, but also for the scientists to gain new insights into their work by collaborating with artists.

Call for artists for 2023 – 2024 programme

The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists for the 2023 – 2024 edition of our ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme. As we enter the third year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the need to connect people to our Ocean is more important than ever. The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides 10,000 euro grants for creative individuals/groups from a wide range of disciplines to co-create artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists to raise societal awareness of the Ocean’s value and inspire behavioural change for a sustainable future.

How to apply

You can find more information about the programme and how to apply by downloading our ‘Application Information’ document. A template for preparing submission materials is available here, and applicants are welcome to consult our FAQs. Applications can be submitted until midnight CET on 20 February 2023 using the application form.

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Call out – BRILLIANT ideas wanted for Lumiere 2023!

Artichoke is inviting anyone aged 18+ to submit their bright idea for new light works for Lumiere 2023. The UK’s light art biennial will take place from 16-19 November 2023 in Durham.

The national commissioning scheme aims to encourage creativity across the UK as well as highlight brilliant ideas from people living in or originally from the North East. Successful applicants will be supported by Artichoke with the production costs and technical expertise to create and install their artwork at specific locations.

Successful applicants will receive:
– A fee of up to £1,000
– An international platform to exhibit your light work
– Support from an Artichoke Producer and Production Manager to realise your BRILLIANT idea
And more… 

You don’t need to be a practising artist or have any previous experience to apply to BRILLIANT. You just need a bright idea. 

Who can apply?
– Anyone aged over 18
– Anyone currently living in the UK

The closing date for applications is Sunday 19 February 2023, 11:59pm.

Artichoke is committed to broadening the diversity of those working in the medium of light art and encourages applications from people who are currently under-represented in our BRILLIANT alumni, including people of colour and people who identify as d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent.

For more information and to apply, visit: http://www.lumiere-festival.com/brilliant-2023/

Contact us at:
020 7650 7611 (Mon – Fri, 10:00 -18:00) / brilliant@artichoke.uk.com