[Sarai Newsletter] Call for Proposals: City as Studio, Edition 2

[The Sarai Programme]

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*

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*City as Studio, Edition 2 *

*The Sarai-CSDS Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Cultural 
Practice*

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The Sarai Programme at CSDS, Delhi is an interdisciplinary platform for 
the investigation and interpretation of contemporary urban life. Sarai 
produces events and processes, publishes offline and online content and 
generates contexts for research and creative practice.

The Sarai Programme, in keeping with its history of support to 
independent thinking and creativity, invites applications from artists 
and practitioners in diverse media forthe second edition of the "City as 
Studio" project. The "City as Studio" seeks to bring contemporary 
artistic and cultural practice into the contentious, active space of 
today's urbanity.

By studio we mean both a space, and a cluster of activities and 
interactions. The Sarai-CSDS "City as Studio" initiative will create 
contexts for high intensity inter-disciplinary processes in locations in 
Delhi and at the Sarai exhibition space at CSDS. The studio process 
proposes to bring together artists, urbanists, educationists, cultural 
workers, neighborhood initiatives and diverse audiences to create art 
works, participatory performances, media works, salons, transmissions of 
different kinds of signals and imaginative festive events. The process 
may be rendered as an exhibition, as also a gathering, as a library, as 
a temporary archive, a salon. It will also take the form of a workshop, 
a temporary atelier, a media studio and a reading group.

We invite the applicants to imagine that the city itself is their 
studio, and that urban realities are their materials.

The City as Studio (Edition 1) book is available for free download as a 
PDF at the Sarai website. (www.sarai.net)

The applicants are invited to write a short note (no more than two 
pages) sketching an idea that they would like to see realized, 
participate in, or circulated if they were selected to participate in 
the "City as Studio".

The artists and practitioners who are selected will work in dialogue 
with Sarai to develop artistic projects and interventions in a range of 
forms that could be anything from free standing art works to proposals 
for mini-exhibitions, installations, performances and happenings, 
publications, sound works, video, internet and mobile phone based works, 
graphic novels, public art works, graffiti and signage and speculative 
architectural proposals.

The applicants who are selected will receive a fellowship amount of Rs. 
85,000, and a modest material and logistical support for the realization 
of project ideas that are developed during the duration of the City as 
Studio process.

The fellowship period will be for the duration of nine months, during 
which time the fellows will be expected to pursue their practice in 
consonance with their stated intentions while applying for the "City as 
Studio" Fellowship. The fellows will have access to a group of mentors 
who will act as sounding boards for their ideas. The Raqs Media 
Collective will be available as interlocutors, and the fellows will 
interact with each other and with their mentors through this period, and 
will be expected to send regular updates of their work, visual 
materials, notes, etc. on to a designated discussion group. They will 
also be expected to submit a final report of their work at the end of 
the nine month period, in fulfillment of the terms of the fellowship.

The "City as Studio" Fellows will be required to spend six weeks 
(January-February 2012) 'in residence' as guests of Sarai in Delhi. 
Costs for travel to Delhi and accommodation will be borne by Sarai CSDS 
for candidates from outside Delhi. During this period, they will be 
expected to work intensively in dialogue with mentors from the Sarai 
network of artists and scholars.

*Who Can Apply: *

Anyone above the age of 21 with a bank account and a PAN number in India 
can apply for this fellowship. The residency period will be located in 
Delhi and is a compulsory part of the City as Studio process.

*What Should Applicant's Send:*

1. A two page sketch of an idea that the applicant would like to pursue 
within the framework of the city studio initiative.

2. A one page note about their practice.

2. CV listing recent works and projects.

3. Samples of recent work - preferably in digital versions.

4. Contact details

*Last Date for Sending Applications: 30th August, 2011*

*Where to Send Applications: *

Send the application by post to City as Studio, Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur 
Road, Delhi 110054, India.

*When can you expect to hear from us: *

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The selected candidates will be informed by email and the list will be 
posted on the Sarai website <www.sarai.net> by 15th September, 2011.

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