[Urbanstudy] Call for Proposals: City as Studio Associate Fellowship

[Curt Gambetta]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

Sarai- CSDS 
            City as
          Studio Associate Fellowship in:  
1.   Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice
Fellowship amount INR 60,000 for six months, with a fully covered and compulsory studio-residency of five weeks in Delhi  between January and February 2013. We will support fourteen fellowships.
2.   Non-Fiction Writing 
Fellowship amount INR 80,000 for seven months, an additional travel grant of INR 40,000, with a fully covered and compulsory studio-residency of two weeks in Delhi between January and February 2013. We will support four fellowships.
The proposals need to contain a note (of minimum four pages) sketching an idea that the applicant would like to embark on. A profile along with two samples of works should accompany the proposal. Last date of submission is Monday, 1st October, 2012.
The Sarai Programme (www.sarai.net) at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi , invites proposals for fellowships under its City as Studio process. The City as Studio fellowship seeks to bring contemporary artistic, literary and cultural practice into the contentious, active space of today’s urbanity and has over the last two years created contexts for high intensity inter-disciplinary processes in Delhi. The studio process have brought together artists, urbanists, educationists, writers, cultural workers, neighbourhood initiatives and diverse audiences to create art works, participatory performances, media works, salons, transmissions of different kinds of signals and imaginative festive events. Logs of earlier editions may be downloaded from:
http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/city-studio-2012
http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/city-as-studio-2010
The third edition of City as Studio will be nested within the context of Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, and a collaboration between Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, and Sarai-CSDS. Sarai Reader 09 is a contemporary art exhibition process that opened on 18th August, 2012 and will run till 16th April, 2013 at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon. The exhibition will bring new works to the public, and generate a desire for an engaging vocabulary of, and ways of practicing and thinking about, art.
 
1.  Associate Fellowship In Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice

In the spirit of Sarai Reader 09, we look forward to the
            production of a wide range of shared and experimental
            methodologies and personal journeys that can be activated in
            a variety of ways through the third edition of City as
            Studio. Proposals are invited to imagine practice in a fresh
            and rigorous way, inaugurate newer directions and
            interrogate discursive frames and practice. The questions
            that animate this edition are around the corporeal and
            imaginative questions around sensations of thinking and its
            relation to an artistic sensibility. We are interested in a
            situation of co-habitation of the discursive and aesthetic,
            where the work of art is not separate from its research and
            making, and artistic practices and actors come together in
            space and conversation. 

Applicants may be contemporary artists/practitioners working
            within any medium, such as video, photography, installation,
            animation, architecture, sound, performance, textual arts
            and the intersections of art and software, science and other
            areas of practice. The artists and practitioners who are
            selected will work in dialogue with Sarai Reader 09. 

2.  Associate Fellowship In Non-Fiction Writing

This year we also inaugurate a special focus on the art and
            practice of non-fiction writing and literary journalism as
            part of the ‘City as Studio’ process. This comes from our
            recognition of the dynamism that long-form non-fiction
            writing, combining investigation, reportage, memoir and the
            personal essay has come to acquire in recent years in
            writing in the English language in
 India .
            From 2002 to 2007, Sarai’s Independent Fellowship Programme
            acted as a catalyst for the non-fiction genre – generating,
            for instance, the remarkable work of Aman Sethi (‘A Free
            Man’), Naresh Fernandes (‘Taj Mahal Foxtrot’), and Basharat
            Peer (‘Curfewed Night’) among others. 

The third edition of City as Studio invites submissions from
            writers, journalists and others with a specific intent to
            support serious engagement with the practice of literary
            non-fiction. 

Applicants are invited to propose specific ideas that
            outline a non-fiction writing project – these can take
            different forms – ranging from the philosophical to the
            personal to the whimsical to the speculative to the engaged
            to the intensely observational. We are looking for an
            engagement that is rigorous and innovative, to proposals
            that offer a clear outline of the process that the writer
            intends to follow and a desire to inaugurate new forms and
            genres of literary practice. 

We expect the fellow to travel for either research or to
            immerse herself in different milieus – be they in the field,
            difficult locations or in the archive – and undertake new
            experiences. We are looking for a quest for adventures with
            ideas and words and a commitment to make writing a public
            form, capable of robust discussion. The selected writers
            will be required to present ‘work in progress’ to their
            peers (artists, writers and others involved in the ‘City as
            Studio’ process). Applications are invited for writing in
            English only. 

ELIGIBILITY:

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 in
 Delhi ,
            and artists will work at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon.
            This is a compulsory part of the City as Studio process.

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





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