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iLAB Request for Proposals for Collaborative Creative Residency Program 2011

- 2011 Residency Schedule: May – October 2011
- Renewable Second year in 2011
- Applications due: 5 pm, Friday, March 18, 2011
- Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2011
- Contact: info@ilandart.org or 917-860-8239

Application Seminars
The seminars facilitate connections between movement based artists and
scientists and environmentalists. We highly encourage attendance at the
seminar. There will be the opportunity to discuss ideas for proposals and
find potential collaborators. Each year successful collaborations have
emerged from the seminar.
Dates and Time: January 15, and February 5, 4-6 pm
Location: thread collective, 117 Grattan St [studio 205], Brooklyn, NY
For reservations and more information please call 212-375-8283 or e-mail
info@ilandart.org

iLAB Collaborative Residency
iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement-based artists
and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects,
architects and others that integrate creative practices within their
different
fields and disciplines.

The goals of iLAB are:
- to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and
the urban environment through kinetic experience,
- to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance,
art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we create and
investigate innovative approaches to science, infrastructure, urbanisms, and
architecture within a performative context,
- to support the development of process in engagement over product
such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

Financial Support
For each residency iLAND will provide up to $5,000 towards artists fees,
supplies and materials. iLAND does not provide travel and housing support
for residencies.

Collaborative Support
iLAND will work with you to schedule and plan for a successful residency at
the beginning of the residency period. We will offer a required day- long
workshop on collaborative process with past iLAB residents and Jennifer
Monson. This workshop is designed to open up ways of thinking about your
particular project and to draw on the past experience of the residency
program. An interim meeting to provide additional support and consultation
will be scheduled mid-residency.

Residency Schedules
Schedules can be flexible to accommodate the team's needs, but all
collaborators must be on site in New York City for a minimum of two weeks.
This time can be spread out over the period of the residency (during the
months of May through October 2011). We encourage a renewable second year
based on the progress of the initial residency.

Proposals
The proposed projects should describe the development of a creative
collaborative process between the residents. These processes can emerge from
exchanging research methodologies, proposing the design of a new process or
some combination of the two. The residencies focus on collaborative process
above the development of a final project. Projects may include but are not
limited to fieldwork, experiments, performances, installations, workshops,
restoration projects or any combinations thereof.
We ask that each proposal include some form of public interaction/engagement
with the creative process of the collaboration.

Proposals must include:
- A clear description of the collaborative process and how that
process will address a specific aspect of New York City ecology.
- Roles of the collaborators must be clearly defined.
- Goals and implementation strategies for both the collaborative
creative process and conceptual framework of the process in relation to the
site and the engagement of the general public.

An important aspect of the project is to document and archive the
development of creative process across disciplines. Successful applicants
will be involved in the documentation and archival process. iLAND provides
video and photo documentation and suggests various ways of evolving process
through a series of questions and meetings throughout the residency.

Selection Criteria
Proposals will be selected based on the projects ability to provide a clear
collaborative process, its engagement with the ecology of New York City and
its ability to engage the public in some way with the creative process of
the collaboration. We encourage projects that engage the Brooklyn Littoral
Zone and areas for the proposed Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
Emerging artists/collaborators are encouraged to apply. The
selection committee will place an emphasis on innovation, experimentation
and the long-term lifespan of the collaboration or project.

More Information
For more information please contact info@ilandart.org or 917-860-8239.
Application guidelines are available at
www.ilandart.org/residencies.cfm?id=1&subPage=2

Application Guidelines iLAB 2011
A complete proposal includes the following items: Application cover sheet, a
project narrative, biographies, letters of commitment from each collaborator
and work samples. Please send the information electronically to
info@ilandart.org, as well as one hard copy to 140 Second Ave #501, New
York, NY 10003.

I. Completed Application Cover Sheet
II. Project Narrative (2 pages maximum)
a. Description of your project with a clear discussion of the goals and
implementation of the collaborative process and its engagement with New York
City ecology
b. Names and background information on project collaborators
c. Description of the public engagement that will take place during the
project
d. Discussion of the long-term sustainability of the collaborations or
of the project as a whole

III. Biographies of each of the collaborators. Please limit to two pages
per collaborator.

IV. Work samples (one per collaborator)
a. Work samples can include videos, DVDs, drawings, CD's, slides,
writings, research studies or reports.
b. The selection committee will spend up to 20 minutes on each
collaboration’s collection of samples. Please prepare a work sample
presentation that represents the collaboration.
c. Submit a WORK SAMPLE SHEET that guides the committee in the best way
to view/experience your materials. We highly suggest that you cue videos,
indicate chapters for DVDs, indicate tracks for CDs, viewing order for
slides and drawings, and mark selections from writings, studies and reports.
d. Please label work samples clearly with collaborator name, year of
work and title of work.

V. Letters of Commitment from each collaborator
a. Include availability during the residency.
b. All collaborators must attend required meetings with the staff of
iLAND to plan documentation, press materials, scheduling and other aspects
of the residency as well as the collaborative process workshop scheduled at
the beginning of the residency period.

If you would like your work samples returned, please include a
self-addressed, stamped envelope with your proposal package. All submissions
must be received by 5pm on March 18, 2011.

Please send applications via e-mail and regular mail to:

info@ilandart.org

and to:

iLAND 2010 Artist-in-Residency RFP
140 Second Ave. #501, New York, NY 10003

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