What could be LEARNING GROUND or GROUND lying fallow WITHin the COLLECTIVE arts ?
A 3rd (and last) Open Call for Collective Artistic Research Residency will be launched begin of January 2025 with deadline end of February.
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- How does your collective include artistic research within your (collective) practice? Which methods do you use or do you want to explore during this residency to organise (collective) artistic research?
- How does your collective share the process of artistic searching to inspire others? What kind of methods does your collective want to explore during this residency in order to be able to share artistic research with others? How to learn from each other?
- PERIOD: 2 months (or 8 and a half weeks) spread over a maximum of 5 months (December 2024-May 2025). Please indicate which period(s) would be most convenient for your group within the timeline. There will also be 2 return moments after the residency (to be organised later).
- SALARY: 3 to 5 persons: €10.000 per person for the whole residency (2 months or 8,5 weeks, all costs and VAT included). In case of 6 to 10 persons: the total salary budget (€50.000 in total for the whole residency, all costs and VAT included) as well as the working time (8,5 weeks) will be divided, making sure people are paid correctly for the time they invest.
- TRAVEL + ACCOMMODATION COSTS: for people coming from outside of Belgium to Brussels, 3 to 5 persons: a maximum of €2.000 per person for the whole residency will be available for travel and accommodation (refund based on receipts). In case of 6 to 10 persons coming from outside of Belgium: the whole travel budget (€10.000) will be divided. ATTENTION: we don't have any accommodation to stay, we only provide collective workspace.
- PRODUCTION BUDGET: €2.000 for the whole residency (on top of the salaries). Basic technical equipment is available. You will have access to the a.pass library and access to the archive and an update about earlier steps made in this transition process.
- SUPPORT: a conversation partner/dedicated mentor will be in touch with the collective for at least 3 moments during the residency and will also be in dialogue with a.pass (board and General Assembly). Our general coordinator is also present in Brussels to give administrative and productional support.
- SPACE FOR THE RESIDENCY: the residency will take place in Brussels, but since the nomadic character of the organisation at the very moment, now a.pass no longer exists as an educational institution, this place might change. Collaboration with other organisations, to create intersection with other worlds, other realities is possible too. You can also indicate in your application what specific conditions this workspace must meet for your residency.
- PERSONAL NEEDS: in case you have questions regarding specific personal needs (family, accessibility,...) please contact our general coordinator.
- COLLECTIVES: the residency programme is aimed at collectives from ideally 5 persons (minimal 3 - maximal 10) ( ATTENTION: this call is NOT for individuals, NOT for duo’s) preferably having experience with artistic research, or with reflecting on institutions, or pedagogical or anthropological experience, all disciplines are welcomed though. You can either work with an already constituted collective or with a newly and for this occasion only formed collective.
- VOICES LESS HEARD: During the selection process of the 1st call we noticed a tendency to focus on local collectives from Brussels/Belgium. With this 2nd call we want to encourage collectives from the Global South to apply for this residency, since we are very open and interested in hearing non-European voices on this topic. We warmly invite you to make your group a multitude of voices, with different perspectives and different disciplines and different expertises gathered around the table.
- TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH: creating intersections with other worlds, other communities, other realities (social practices, farming or cooking, or other fields like the political, ecological, economical, juridical, urbanistic, subcultures, etc…).
- APPLICATION LETTER: (max 5 pages or 15 min of recording) this can be in writing or via an audio or video recording. We would like to know how you would take care of the fallow ground? Which methods would you like to explore to do artistic research and to share your experiences with others? What would be a desirable outcome for your group? What is your motivation, how do you imagine working together and why would you make a good group? Who is part of the group, have you worked together before, and in what fields is each of you active? Also good to mention briefly the collective and individual need in (artistic) research and your relation to it, as well as your relation to a.pass and/or Brussels.
- TIMELINE: (max 1 page) indicate your favourite periods (2 months or 8,5 weeks spread over max 5 months) and give us a more detailed planning or timeline of your residency.
- BIO’s + CV’s: (max 2 pages per person) of all the people involved in the group
- PORTFOLIO: portfolio of the collective or per person, extra info, website, other links
- PROCEDURE:
- a.pass
- 09 April 2024
- 09 June 2024
- application letter: this can be in writing or via an audio or video recording. We are happy to read or listen to you in Dutch, French or English (max 5 pages in writing or max 15 min of recording). We would like to know how you would take care of the fallow ground? What would be a desirable outcome for your group? What is your motivation, how you imagine working together and why you would make a good group. Who is part of the group, have you worked together before, and in what fields is each of you active? Also good to mention briefly the collective and individual need in (artistic) research and your relation to it, as well as your relation to a.pass and/or Brussels.
- your favourite period (max 5 months) in which you would like to have the residency and a more detailed planning or timeline.
- short bio’s + CV of all the people involved in the group (max 1 pages per person)
- documentation: website, video links, portfolio (limited to 3 pages per person - 10 MB )
Am I Evil?* Brussels Edition
by Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola with Els Moors
Can erotic writing become a place for decolonial and feminist exploration?How could one embrace the tools of erotic writing to unveil, investigate and question power processes of colonisation, discrimination, nanoracism, marginalization, exoticization, abuse and seduction from diverse perspectives?
These questions are at the core of Am I Evil? process writers of all sorts are invited to embark upon.
On this journey the group of writers embrace erotic writing as a tool to investigate their own desire, and how this relates to the Other and the Unknown.
For the duration of the whole journey they stay in dialogue through a peer-to-peer editing methodology. Actually such a methodology is not ‘just’ editing. It is rather an intimate and radical way of dialoguing through re-writing.
Am I Evil? starts off with a-lecture introduction by Basani and Ciresola open to everyone about the legacy of Jeanne Walschot, the first white female dealer and collector of African art we know, active in Brussels from 1920s.
The figure of Mrs. Walschot works efficiently as a site to explore the way Western European culture desires the Other, and the Unknown. With the research of Gloria Wekker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks and Robin diAngelo in mind, this exploration might reveal for instance how whiteness is constructed (culturally, socially, historically) through the look and the touch on the Other.
The process of text writing and re-writing will take place between the end of April and July 2024, both in collective meetings in person and individual sessions at home.
The texts created during this collective journey will be shared with the audience through a printed publication and will have a first presentation moment during the Art Book Fair at Wiels and at nadine, in October 2024.
The Brussels edition of Am I Evil? welcomes as special guests the writers Gabriela Wiener and Cristina Ubah Ali Farah plus other artists to be confirmed.More info and how to apply click here.
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Open Call #1 Open Call #1 for collective research residency
07 April 2024
posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
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What could be lying fallow in the arts?
This a call for a 2-month paid residency for collectives (existing or newly established on the occasion of this call, ideally 5 persons). The period of 2 months can be spread over a maximum of 5 months. Read more about the practical details further below. First we would like to give you more info about the context and the framework of this call.
CONTEXT? WHAT? MISSION?
“In a world in constant motion there is an ecological imperative to embrace the value of idleness” Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo in Lying fallow: the value of idleness
For about 15 years a.pass has been hosting a co-learning environment for research-based practices, focusing on collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity. a.pass is an acronym for ‘advanced performance and scenography studies’: ‘performance’ refers to how practices act in their surroundings, ‘scenography’ is the production of space and context, ‘studies’ stands for a co-learning pedagogical approach and the prefix ‘advanced’ is a dedication to challenge the frames of existing disciplinary determinations.
In 2022 however, the Flemish Ministry of Education decided to end their financial support of a.pass by the end of 2023. a.pass managed to get a transition budget and after a period of conversations with different partners (Schools of Arts, workspaces, universities, places for artistic research), and working on a new plan in order to make a restart. Nevertheless, due to the financial inflation, the tight budgets and even budget cuts in the other institutions, the budgetary framework needed to make an adapted restart was impossible to reach without any structural support from the Ministry of Education.
To make a virtue of necessity we chose for a more radical, more riskful path towards a possible future. Both programs, the Postgraduate Program as well as the Research Center, came to an end in 2023. We chose to embrace the fallow land that lays before us and a.pass entered a period of reflection, reimagination, and ultimately reorganisation: a field when it lies fallow - seemingly 'doing nothing' but in fact engaging in a deep process of rejuvenation and enriching as Rajni Shah says, a space for attention and transformation. An integral aspect of this process involves opening it up by inviting others to participate, to think together, to be together, to imagine a sustainable way forward for artistic research practices and for a.pass as a re-generated soil for collectivity and research. Therefore, we are extending invitations to 3 collectives (existing or newly established on the occasion of this call) for a 2-month paid residency to reimagine our fallow land and its implications for collective artistic research practices, methodologies, and sustainable harvesting.
Recognising the socio-economic challenges facing collective arts, wherein artistic research is fully embedded into its soil, a.pass hopes to carefully and responsibly re-plant our fallow land in the coming years, to develop and articulate frameworks, methodologies, and possible vessels that can empower sustainable collective studio environments of the near-future.
“The research is an artistic practice, the practice is an artistic research. The research is guided by the questions arising in the artistic practice and, at the same time, the formulations of the research, its theories and methodologies, are feeding back into the practice which will return with new questions to the research.” Veridiana Zurita in In These CircumstancesIf research is intrinsic to artistic practice, what constitutes this fallow land, and how can it be filled with sustainability and radical institutional re-imagining, how can it be maintained responsibly and collectively? In other words, how can we nurture this space and ensure its sustainability? Are there methodologies, economic models and networks that can support this? Are there philosophical frameworks that can inspire this? Allowing land to lie fallow offers a transitional moment outside the circuit of capitalist value creation and destruction, as Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo suggest. Recognising the profound impact of an ideology of continuous progress on urban infrastructure, social dynamics, ecological processes, and the climate at large, this open call would like to seriously consider the concept of institutional lying fallow, beyond the capitalist logic of perpetual construction and deconstruction for the sake of scaling up.
Embracing the collective, collaborative, and shared spaces, along with the exchange of research practices, is essential for sustainable artistic work. This call invites collectives whose practice is grounded in reflection and collaborative efforts to make lying fallow feasible on an institutional level. What kind of institution could embrace the value of idleness? What institutional framework is necessary for artistic research, both as a practice and a field, and how can it be facilitated in a sustainably radical way?“I do not mean to phrase this as some kind of utopian ideal, but to begin an attempt at articulating the ways in which the work of lying fallow lay in relationship to the world around it, without assuming the nature or texture of that relationship.” Rajni Shah on Lying Fallow
CONDITIONS? FRAMEWORK? WHAT IS EXPECTED?
Each collective residency period serves as a reflection on institutional frameworks within the field of artistic research, acting as an experimental pedagogical platform where collectives can propose new models, methodologies, and ways of exchanging knowledge and practices. Each group is tasked with developing an institutional reimagining grounded in their own research focus and interests, while taking into consideration the concept of lying fallow. Each collective residency will need to devise a way. The hope is that the three residency periods will create a palimpsest of possibilities for a sustainable and radical artistic research institution, and a possible future for a.pass. Each collective research residency should consider the following two questions:
How to nurture a process of searching within a (collective) artistic practice? Or, how to do artistic research?
How does the process of (collective) artistic searching inspire others? Or, how to share artistic research with others?
WHAT DO WE OFFER?
We foresee a paid residency for 2 months for ideally 5 persons (min.3 - max.10 persons). There is a salary for 5 people (in case of 10 persons: the salary as well as the working time will be divided by 10, making sure people are paid correctly for the time they invest) (in case of less than 5 persons: the salary per person remains the same). The period of 2 months can be spread over a maximum of 5 months. You can indicate which periods would be convenient for your group. There will also be 2 return moments after the residency (to be organised later).
The salary will be €5.000/month/person (all costs & VAT incl.) It is also possible to be on the payroll with an artist contract, in that case the gross salary will be €3.250 (according to the official scale of PC 329) and a.pass will pay the extra costs for social security, holiday pay and taxes.
For people coming outside of Belgium, a maximum of €1.000 per month per person for travel and accommodation will be available (refund based on receipts). We don't have accommodation to stay, we only provide collective workspace.
Production budget per group: €2.000 for the whole residency (on top of the salaries). There will also be administrative/productional/ technical support with basic technical equipment. You will have access to the library and access to the archive and the update about earlier steps made in this transition process.
Space for the residency: depending on the period the place might change, since the nomadic character of a.pass at the very moment, but it will be in/around Brussels. Also collaboration with other organisations, to create intersection with other worlds, other realities could be possible. You can also indicate what kind of place you would need for this residency in your application.
Personal needs: in case you have questions regarding specific personal needs (family, accessibility,...) please contact our general coordinator.
WHO CAN APPLY ?
The residency programme is aimed at collectives from about 5 persons (minimal 3 - maximal 10) preferably having experience with artistic research, or with reflecting on institutions, or pedagogical or anthropological experience, but all disciplines are welcome. You can either work with an already constituted collective or with a newly and for this occasion only formed collective.
We call for voices less heard until now in the context of a.pass, and invite you to make your group a multitude of voices, with different perspectives and different disciplines and different expertises gathered around the table. With a transdisciplinary approach: creating intersections with other worlds, other realities (social practices, farming or cooking, or other fields like the political, ecological, economical, juridical, urbanistic, subcultures, etc…).
We value artistic research that is without hierarchy within methodologies, where every methodology is taken seriously (e.g. a dream equals statistics as methodology).
FOR WHICH PERIOD CAN YOU APPLY?
The period for the 3 residencies runs from September 2024 until August 2025.
We start with a first call for a first group for the period September 2024-January 2025.
The period for the 2nd group will be December 2024-April 2025 (call will be out in July) and for the 3rd group it will be April-August 2025.
DEADLINE
There will be 3 different calls. The calls could possibly be adapted according to the inputs from prior chosen collectives during this period. Interaction with the other chosen collectives is encouraged.
Deadline for the application for the 1st group (period Sept '24-Jan '25) is June 9th 2024.
Deadline for the application for the 2nd group (period Dec '24-May '25) is October 9th 2024. Call will be published on July 9th.
Deadline for the application for the 3rd group (period April-August 2025) is January 9th 2025. Call will be published on November 9th.
HOW TO APPLY?
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You can only apply by filling in the application form here below (emails will not be accepted as application).The application form consists of 4 parts:SELECTION
The selection will be made by the board and the General Assembly of a.pass and 2 external jury members. Please be aware that our advisory committee always reflects a diversity of fields, gender identity, and geographical knowledge. In the selection we pay attention to the complementary expertise, the diversity/multivoicedness within the collectives and the recognition of today’s challenges.
All groups applying for the first call will receive a reply by email by mid-July. Shortlisted groups will be invited for an online conversation to elaborate on their application before a final selection is made. Upon final selection, an agreement will be signed between the group and a.pass. In case of any changes in the composition of the group members (like the withdrawal or replacement of one of its members) a.pass must be informed and has to agree before the project can continue.
QUESTIONS? AND MORE INFO?
Send an email to the general coordinator at kristof@apass.be
Every application will be offered a copy of the a.pass publication In These Circumstances: a collection of methodologies, insights, experiences, ideas, researches from 15 years of a.pass. When you would like to receive a copy of this book beforehand, in order to use it for your application, it’s possible to order it for €15 only (shipping included), just send us an email.
GOOD TO KNOW!
In case you need space to come together and to prepare your application, you can always reach out to us, we’re very happy to help and share a.pass-spaces.
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Open Call #2 Open Call #2 for collective research residency
20 August 2024
posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
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What could be LEARNING GROUND or GROUND lying fallow WITHin the COLLECTIVE arts ?
This is the second call for a 2 months paid artistic research residency for collectives, existing or newly established on the occasion of this call, ideally 5 persons (min.3 max. 10 - NOT for individuals nor duo’s).
CONTEXT ?
“In a world in constant motion there is an ecological imperative to embrace the value of idleness” Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo in Lying fallow: the value of idleness
By the end of 2023 a.pass (‘advanced performance and scenography studies’) entered a period of (self-)reflection and reimagination, a period of lying fallow: a field when it lies fallow - seemingly 'doing nothing' but in fact engaging in a deep process of rejuvenation and enriching as Rajni Shah says, a space for attention and transformation. Due to the ministry’s decision to end their financial support (based on radical savings and political choices) we were forced to end both of our educational programs: the Postgraduate Program as well as the Research Center that were at the heart of our co-learning environment for research-based practices came to an end, and by this also the educational institution a.pass has been for 15 years. The organisation entered a transition process, and an integral aspect of this process involves opening it up by inviting others to participate, to think together, to be together, to re-imagine a sustainable way forward for artistic research practices and their pedagogical aspects. Therefore, we are extending invitations to three collectives for a two-month paid residency to reimagine our fallow land and its implications for collective artistic research practices, methodologies, and sustainable harvesting. The first collective, One Field Fallow, has been selected in the first round in July and they will start their residency in September 2024. This call is to invite a second collective into this process.
CONDITIONS ? FRAMEWORK ? EXPECTATIONS ?
This call invites a second group for a collective research residency that serves as a reflection period on institutional frameworks within the field of artistic research, acting as an experimental pedagogical platform where collectives can propose new models, methodologies, and ways of exchanging knowledge and practices.
The selected collective will be tasked with developing a reimagination of a possible institutional framework grounded in their own research focus and interests, while taking into consideration the concept of lying fallow. What kind of container, institutional framework, is necessary for artistic research, both as a practice and a field, and how can it be facilitated in a sustainably radical way? The collective research residency should consider the following two questions:
“I do not mean to phrase this as some kind of utopian ideal, but to begin an attempt at articulating the ways in which the work of lying fallow lay in relationship to the world around it, without assuming the nature or texture of that relationship.” Rajni Shah on Lying Fallow
WHAT DO WE OFFER ?
WHO CAN APPLY ?
FOR WHICH PERIOD CAN YOU APPLY ?
The period for the 2nd residency will be December 2024-May 2025
DEADLINE ?
The deadline for the application for the 2nd group (period December 2024 -May 2025) is Sunday October 13th 2024 (23:59 CEST).
HOW TO APPLY ?
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You canonly apply by filling in the APPLICATION FORM here below (emails will not be accepted as application).******------***** IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO APPLY FOR THIS 2ND CALL ******------*****
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SELECTION ?
The selection will be made by 3 members of the board and the General Assembly of a.pass and 3 external jury members. Please be aware that our advisory committee always reflects a diversity of fields, gender identity, and geographical knowledge.
1) a first selection will be made by the general coordinator, based on the following very basic criteria:
- is all the information requested in the form present?
- is it a collective (3-10 pers.) applying or not ? (individuals and duo’s will not be selected)
- is it a research application or not? (project and production applications will not be accepted)
2) a second selection will be made by the jury: each eligible application will be read by at least 2 jury members (each time a duo consisting of an a.pass member and an external jury member), they will look into the following criteria:
- how the notion of artistic research has been dealt within the proposal
- the pedagogical aspects of the proposal
- the proposed methodologies
- diversity of backgrounds, gender identities, and/or expertise within the groups
- the recognition of today’s challenges
3) a third selection will be made by all jury members: maximum 5 groups will be selected and invited for an online talk with the jury to elaborate on their application before a final selection is made.
4) a final selection will be made after the talk with the 5 groups, the jury will discuss the group they selected with the board and General Assembly of a.pass
All groups applying for this 2nd call will receive a reply by mid-November 2024.
Upon final selection, an agreement will be signed between the group and a.pass. In case of any changes in the composition of the group members (like the withdrawal or replacement of one of its members) a.pass must be informed and has to agree before the project can continue.
QUESTIONS ? AND MORE INFO ?
Check out our website or send an email to the general coordinator at kristof@apass.be
Every application will be offered a copy of the a.pass publication In These Circumstances: a collection of methodologies, insights, experiences, ideas, researches from 15 years of a.pass. In case you want it sooner, to get inspired to write your application, you can ask for the PDF or order a physical copy of the book (€15, shipping within Europe included). Just send us an email.
“The research is an artistic practice, the practice is an artistic research. The research is guided by the questions arising in the artistic practice and, at the same time, the formulations of the research, its theories and methodologies, are feeding back into the practice which will return with new questions to the research.” Veridiana Zurita in In These Circumstances
Open Call Open Call #3 for collective research residency
20 November 2024
posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
