_ CALL-OUT FOR PARTICIPANTS!
Engage 2012 is an artist initiative aiming to bring together artists in a 10-day long collaborative research session. This will take place in Bucharest, Romania, hosted by Bucharest Air, from 16th-25th of March 2012.
The purpose of the encounter is to explore Bucharest city combining individual investigations with a collective process consisting of daily meetings and conversations. The invited artists are encouraged to enter the project through the perspective of their own art-practice. The key issues of the project are ideas of inside(r)/ outside(r), separate/ integrated, subject/ object.
During the course of the project the participants will live together in close accommodations provided by Bucharest Air. They are expected to participate in the daily maintenance of the space during this time (ie. basic cooking and cleaning). During each day the participants of the project are expected to go out on their own, exploring the city as individual artists. These experiences, as well as thoughts, ideas or collected ephemera constitute the topics of the conversations later in the evening (or at other times as agreed within the group).
The project is dialogue based: It is about being in a dialogue with the city and with the other participants of the engage collective. The participants are not expected to make work during the time of the project, but instead the collective conversations will be recorded with video or audio. This material will be used for a publication and as documentation of the project.
During the course of the project the participants will live together in close accommodations provided by Bucharest Air. They are expected to participate in the daily maintenance of the space during this time (ie. basic cooking and cleaning). During each day the participants of the project are expected to go out on their own, exploring the city as individual artists. These experiences, as well as thoughts, ideas or collected ephemera constitute the topics of the conversations later in the evening (or at other times as agreed within the group).
The project is dialogue based: It is about being in a dialogue with the city and with the other participants of the engage collective. The participants are not expected to make work during the time of the project, but instead the collective conversations will be recorded with video or audio. This material will be used for a publication and as documentation of the project.
The engage collective will gather a group of ca 6-9 participants. The number of participants is restricted to this number to benefit good conversations (quality before quantity).
During the final three days of the project the collective dialogues will be held in public, and during this time anyone who wants can join, as a way of presentation.
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DETAILS
Dates: 16th -25th March 2012
Where: Bucharest Air, Bucharest, Romania
Costs: Engage 2012 is an artist-initiative, and at this moment we have no funding secured. Participants are expected to cover their own travel expenses plus €175 towards housing and food. These are the basic, minimum costs for the project; it is a non-profit endeavor. We encourage selected participants to apply for local funding where possible.
Who are we looking for? We prefer that participants have never been to Bucharest before/ We prefer that participants are communicative and socially aware since an important part of the project is collective and communication based/ We prefer participants who can speak reasonably good English, since this will be the language used primarily / We prefer participants that are hungry, happy, passionate and adventurous.
Applications should contain: Letter of motivation, CV, and link to artists website or digital portfolio.
Applications can be sent to: engage.project2012@gmail.com. (Make sure to write Application in the “subject” field).
Deadline: The 15th of February all applicants will be notified. However, selected participants will be notified as early as possible (so as to facilitate individual fundraising). This means that early applicants have a better chance to enter the project than late ones.
About Engage 2012: Engage is an initiative developed by artists Josefin Rasmuson, Emma Haugh, and Tess Walkowski. For more information see http://engageinternational.blogspot.com.
About Bucharest Air: Bucharest Air is a residency program in the city of Bucharest, Romania, initiated by visual artist Tudor Bratu (http://www.bucharestair.com/).
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