VIDEOBRASIL EM CONTEXTO PRIZE
OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FROM VISUAL ARTISTS
WITH A RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICE
Description
The Associação Cultural Videobrasil in partnership with Casa Tomada (São Paulo, Brazil) and Delfina Foundation (London, UK) are pleased to invite applicants from Brazil and the Middle East, North Africa & South Asia (MENASA) for a three-month artistic residency split between São Paulo and London. The aim of the residency is to produce a new work in response to Videobrasil’s Collection.
The initiative continues Videobrasil’s policy of promoting and giving visibility to art produced in the geopolitical south, as well as Casa Tomada and Delfina Foundation’s commitment to fostering artistic development. The residency takes place in the context of 30 years of International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil and aims not only to bring visibility to its important collection of video art and performance built over the past decades, but also to the production of critical and conceptual creative contributions around these works.
The Prize
The Videobrasil em Contexto Prize [Videobrasil in Context] is focused on artists, under the age of 35, whose practice involves a strong element of research and production. Artists must be interested in the archive and collection as a point of departure for their work. Two artists (one from Brazil and another from MENASA) will be selected based upon their proposed projects to participate in a three-month residency split between São Paulo and London from mid-September 2012. The works developed during the residency will become part of the Videobrasil Collection.
The Collection available for each artist are the works that have been part of the Southern Panoramas show since the Festival’s 8th edition (1990), when Videobrasil focused on the geopolitical South, as part of its mission to research, foment and promote the artists from the places which have been traditionally bordering and outside of the main art world circuit. This Collective offers a group of very different artworks, including the production of the 90’s and 2000’s and a wide variety of artistic languages, subjects, discourses, and intentions. From immersive contact with this Collection, the selected artists will develop their projects. An overview on this 20+ year selection (featuring artists list, short bios, works description, video excerpts, film stills and other informations) is available for the applicants through the following URL: www.videobrasil.org.br/vbonline.
During their six-week at Casa Tomada in São Paulo and at Delfina Foundation in London, the artist will work in a collaborative environment that will include critical accompaniment through discussion meetings, texts and/or activities provided by other artists, curators, critics, or guest professionals invited by the organizers.
During their stay in London, the artists will present their projects, their research processes and works of their choosing from the Collection to be shown publicly.
At the end of the residency, the artists will be asked to prepare a presentation of their projects to be part of the activities of the Festival’s 30th Anniversary in October 2013. The resultant research will also form part of a digital publication.
Structure
The prize offers each selected artist:
- A residency of 12 weeks – 6 weeks at Casa Tomada in São Paulo, Brazil, and 6 weeks at Delfina Foundation in London, UK – including accommodation and work space (notice that the places defined for the residency must be utilized even by those artists based in São Paulo);
- One person airfare in economy class to and from the residency cities and the city where the artist is based;
- A prize amount of US$ 5,000.00* (five thousand US dollars), in order to produce the commissioned work – gross amount; there will be retention of taxes according to Brazilian law;
- Per diem allowance of US$ 2,500.00* (two and a half thousand US dollars, paid in São Paulo) plus £ 1,000.00* (one thousand pounds sterling, paid in London) – gross amount; there will be retention of taxes according to the laws of each country where the payments are made.
Important: Any costs and practical demands related to visa and other legal obligations concerning international transit are the artists’ responsibility. It is a mandatory requirement that each artist obtain their own travel insurance for the full period to cover personal possessions and any unforeseen medical needs.
Conditions
The applicants must be:
- Visual artists whose practice demonstrates a strong degree of research;
- Aged 35 years-old or under;
- Living and working in Brazil, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia;
- Able to demonstrate reasoned and consistent connections between their proposed project and the Videobrasil Collection and also its technical practicability;
- Able to demonstrate achievement or clear potential in articulating critically engaged ideas and procedures in a collaborative process;
- Committed to work in a cost-effective way;
- Proficient in English.
No member of the selection committee, or Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Casa Tomada or Delfina Foundation employees and close relatives can participate on the open call. The participation in this selective process implies full understanding and agreement with this announcement from the applicant.
Application process
Applicants are expected to submit all of the below items and only the below items. Applications with extra materials will not be considered. All the text contents must be in English.
- The completed application form;
- The proposal of project to be developed during the residency – the proposal can take on any form or structure but it must be in one separate pdf file. Information on the works from the Videobrasil Collection, which the proposal must draw on, is accessible at www.videobrasil.org.br/vbonline. Important: please note that only those works that participated of the Southern Panoramas show since 1990 must be considered;
- Recent CV/resume;
- Portfolio – only one pdf file. Although there is no maximum number of images that will be accepted, we advise applicants to only submit relevant materials to reduce the size of email submissions. The images should include captions or short descriptions. For videos/films, please provide links to your own website, Vimeo page, YouTube page, etc. Do not attach actual video files.
- Letter of Recommendation – from an acknowledged professional of arts or culture. It must be sent directly from this recommending person to the submission email address informed below or else the scanned letter, signed and dated, may be sent by the applicant;
- Copy of Passport.
ALL DOCUMENTS COMBINED MUST BE NO MORE THAN 25MB
Please submit all materials to the appropriate email addresses below:
All applicants from Brazil: videobrasilemcontexto@casatomada.com.br
All applicants from MENASA: videobrasilincontext@delfinafoundation.com
Please try to send all information in one email. If the files don’t fit all in one email, you may submit multiple emails. In this case, indicate in the subject line of the email the number of emails that you are sending to ensure that we log all of them (e.g. “1 of 3”, “2 of 3”, etc).
Deadline for applications: 8th June 2012
Schedule of the program
- Open Call: May 8th – June 8th, 2012
- Artists shortlisted: June 15th, 2012
- Interviews with shortlisted artists through Skype: June 20th to July 22nd, 2012
- Announcement of Selection: 2nd July, 2012
- Program Length: September 17th – December 29th, 2012
[São Paulo: September 17th – October 29th, 2012]
[London: October 29th – December 17th, 2012]
Legal terms
The committee decisions are sovereign and irrevocable.
The artists selected will sign a contract with Associação Cultural Videobrasil granting it the copyrights and subsidiary rights, and authorizing the use of all of the images, sounds, and text collected and presented throughout the project’s development, irrevocably and irreparably, for a nonspecific period of time, in Brazil and abroad, including all the stages of the work process. The authorization of use also concerns Casa Tomada and Delfina Foundation. The contract will also give Associação Cultural Videobrasil exclusive rights to elaborate, produce, and release a DVD, a catalogue, and other promotional products and material for the Prize. The artists selected will also authorize institutional use of their own image in promotional actions for the Prize, in all types of media.
In case of deciding to edit or interfering in a work from Videobrasil Collection, the terms of copyright and image rights of this selected work must be strictly observed and agreed with the legal responsible parts, as well as the ethical implications of such procedure.
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