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2019 Dirt & Debt Residency at RU

OPEN CALL FOR US-BASED ARTISTS:

Dirt & Debt Residency at Residency Unlimited (RU)

Dates: February 1-April 30 2019

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 11.59pm EST

Artists today are key actors in bringing vitality back to the land, taking back their towns, and staking an active claim in re-envisioning their communities’ future. RU invites applications from US-based artists for Dirt & Debt, a 3-month thematic residency, conceived and curated by Livia Alexander and Jane Philbrick, for artists whose medium is the built and/or natural world. Criteria for selection will include working at the community level in the global context.

Dirt & Debt explores artists' relation to the built and natural world in the era of superabundant capital, in which corporate profits are disconnected from local economies and artists are deployed to grace and animate the enterprise. Far from benign, art and real estate intersect at a global crossroads of wealth creation that accelerates inequality and ecological degradation.

Against a backdrop of the ever-expanding portfolio of initiatives undertaken by municipal leaders and real estate developers in various urban centers in the US and internationally to deploy the arts as a catalyst for economic growth, through this residency, RU aims to look at what other, more symbiotic models may look like.

Residency Features:

Buckminster Fuller astutely observed, "You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." In order to build a new model, the logic of the existing model must be identified and understood.

Drawing on RU’s model of customized support, Dirt & Debt will take the form of a think-tank/street studio model of cross-discipline exchange and collaboration. Artists will work from RU’s headquarters in Brooklyn and have the option to develop projects while taking part in weekly discussions, meetings, and mentoring workshops with key professionals in the built environment, including climate and soil scientists, real estate financiers, municipal leaders, land use and policy experts, and others. Artists can apply and develop their creative practice and processes around issues such as climate change, alternative transportation models, new technologies towards land remediation, and the transitioning relationship of the city to exurban peripheries.

Dirt & Debt is offered in two 3-month residencies; the first session runs February 1-April 30, 2019, the second in 2020 (dates TBA). Each cycle brings together 4 US-based and 4 international artists.

Terms:

▪ We are inviting applications from US-based artists only.

▪ Based on available funding, housing and travel stipends will be provided to selected artists if they are based outside of New York City. In addition, we are planning for each selected artist to receive a stipend that will be determined in accordance with funds secured by RU.

▪ We are inviting applications from US-based artists only.

▪ Based on available funding, housing and travel stipends will be provided to selected artists if they are based outside of New York City. In addition, we are planning for each selected artist to receive a stipend that will be determined in accordance with funds secured by RU.

Application and Selection Timeline

▪ June 1, 2018: Applications Open

▪ July 31, 2018: Applications Close

▪ August 24, 2018: Applications Review by RU's curatorial staff and external advisors

▪ September 6 and 7, 2018: Interviews with the finalists

▪ October 1, 2018: Announcement of 4 selected US-based artists

▪ June 1, 2018: Applications Open

▪ July 31, 2018: Applications Close

▪ August 24, 2018: Applications Review by RU's curatorial staff and external advisors

▪ September 6 and 7, 2018: Interviews with the finalists

▪ October 1, 2018: Announcement of 4 selected US-based artists

Please provide the following material via the Submission Form:

▪ Contact information

▪ A 500-word statement of interest

▪ Digital portfolio of 10-15 images (up to 5MB) and/or up to 90 seconds of sound or video excerpts;

▪ CV and narrative bio

▪ Up to 5 URLs to a project website, social media, talks, reviews

▪ Contact information

▪ A 500-word statement of interest

▪ Digital portfolio of 10-15 images (up to 5MB) and/or up to 90 seconds of sound or video excerpts;

▪ CV and narrative bio

▪ Up to 5 URLs to a project website, social media, talks, reviews

Receipt of your submission will be confirmed by email. Please direct application concerns or questions to Nataša Prljević, RU Executive, and Curatorial Assistant: nprljevic@residencyunlimited.org

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RU/Visual AIDS Curatorial Residency March 2019

Applications are due Monday August 20, 2018.

A one-month residency, to take place in March 2019 in New York City, for a curator, art historian, or arts writer interested in the intersection of visual art, AIDS and activism. Co-sponsored by Visual AIDS and Residency Unlimited and now in its seventh year, the curatorial residency seeks to encourage the development of exhibitions, programs, and scholarship about AIDS-related cultural production and contemporary art.

The residency includes round-trip transportation to New York City, accommodations and a $1000 stipend.

Residency Unlimited will provide the curator with customized administrative and network support, shared office space at 360 Court Street in Brooklyn and support for a public program (lecture/screening/discussion) defined in conjunction with RU and Visual AIDS. Concurrently, the resident curator will conduct research at Visual AIDS in the Archive Project and online Artist+ Registry. The Visual AIDS office is located in the Chelsea art district in New York City. The Archive and Registry at Visual AIDS holds over 20,000 images by approximately 900 artists living with HIV and those who have passed away from AIDS-related complications. Studio visits with artists from the Archive Project are strongly encouraged. The resident curator is invited to create an online exhibition to be hosted by Visual AIDS (see Visual AIDS monthly Web Galleries).

The resident curator will be invited to produce a free public event co-hosted by RU and Visual AIDS. Panel discussions, film screenings, performances, or a lecture highlighting the curator’s use of Visual AIDS’ resources, or a presentation of international AIDS-related cultural production are examples of potential programs.

For information on past Visual AIDS curatorial residents, visit here.

International applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. English speaking and writing skills are required.

TO APPLY:

Please submit a C.V. and a Statement of Purpose (maximum 2 pages) outlining your goals for the residency, and any past or current projects that have led you to cultural investigations around art, AIDS and activism. Special consideration will be given to applicants living internationally, and outside of NYC, from locations without support for cultural production about themes relating to HIV, LGBT identity, and gender.

Applications are due August 20, 2018.

Applicants will be notified by September 15, 2019

The one-month residency must take place between March 1 and March 31, 2019.

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