AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

I'm reaching out to you on behalf of 爻 yáo collaborative, previously known as China Residencies! You can read more about our name change here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck06fW1OWt8/ 

A little about us: We are an online-based, multi-faceted nonprofit committed to mapping and weaving local and global constellations of artists, collectives, culture workers and stewards whose work opens portals for cross-border artistic exchange, friendship, and care between mainland China/HK and the rest of the world.

Given the alignment of our work, we are excited to share with you our current open call for the second iteration of the Digital Diasporas Residency!

https://yaocollaborative.org/digital-diasporas-open-call 

The first iteration of Digital Diasporas was a distributed, remote residency, and spacious opportunity for artists to do deep thinking and form cross-border connections without the pressure of producing a final product. This year, we are excited to bring back this open call for a second iteration with an additional residency host in the United States!

We want to hear from artists, collectives, and curators who self-identify and find it useful to gather under a "Sino and/or Chinese diaspora" cohort. This is a time for research, exploration and learning. We are looking for openness to collective, intercultural and cross-border development and research.

This remote, six-week-long online residency will be facilitated by three host organizations in May and June. Each resident or collective will primarily work with one host organization in Canada, Australia, or the United States and all residents as a cohort will be in dialogue with one another through convenings. Each resident or collective will be awarded an unrestricted stipend of AUD $10,000 for their participation. 

The deadline is Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at midnight in your timezone, wherever you are. For more information about the open call, check out our website:

https://yaocollaborative.org/digital-diasporas-open-call 

Please do share the link to the open call with anyone who might be interested or would like to pass this along to other people in your network. We respect your mission and are glad to be in your network! 

Finally, please never hesitate to contact us directly with questions or to recommend specific artists you may have in mind at hello@yaocollaborative.org or to me at quinn@yaocollaborative.org!

Please visit this link:

https://yaocollaborative.wufoo.com/forms/s1d3pepg1cbt3c1/

Thank you.