IP Collegium 2023: Historical Works in Educational Contexts

IP COLLEGIUM: RESIDENCY PROGRAMME CALL 2023
Historical Works in Educational Contexts

Application deadline: March 12, 2023

IP—The Institute of the Present (Bucharest) launches the 2023 residency call aimed at researching and rediscussing artworks created in the early 1990s in Romania, Hungary and Serbia, together with their contexts, the (temporary) artistic collectives or solitary initiatives conceived as solutions for new gestures, sometimes utopic at their time.

The call is open to artists from any European country working in visuals arts, performance, theatre, dance, or music, who can investigate the proposed artwork through individual research and through a working period in Timișoara, Romania, in May 2023, including a workshop or a similar event aimed at creating an experience of the chosen artwork for students. A potential outcome of the residency programme is that its process and results are further presented in connection with the “Performing 89. States of Disillusion” exhibition to take place in autumn 2023 in the frame of the “Uncensored Act” project undertaken by the Institute of the Present as part of the Timișoara European Capital of Culture 2023 official programme.

“Performing 89. States of Disillusion” is an exhibition dedicated to artistic movements at the 1989 historical crossroads in the countries of Romania, Hungary and Serbia, aiming to discuss the public engagement of the artist in the turn of 1990s from a comparative perspective; it centres on the gaze towards the public sphere while analysing practices and ways of signification of artistic gestures as proposals to assemble of critical/political/analytical messages in regards to the way in which reality was shaped by the imprint of real socialism and reconfigured in the transition period towards conscious capitalism. “Performing 89” also reflects on the various strategies of (self-)historicisation, of analysis of the lived present and on evoking the way in which the artist imagined the world and symbolically proposed him/herself to correct it or to make it heard.

RESIDENCY DETAILS AND APPLICATION
The residency programme is open to artists from any European country working in visuals arts, performance, theatre, dance, or music. The application dossier should include: 1-page project description, including details on the chosen historical artwork and the proposed methodology of research; 20-line biography; portfolio of projects. The dossier should be sent to ip@institutulprezentului.ro by March 12, 2023.

Two proposals will be selected by the Institute of the Present team, and results will be announced by March 15, 2023. The residency organisers offer: Euro 1200 gross project fee (approx. Euro 1080 net fee), local/international travel (in the limit of Euro 300 per project) and accommodation and working space in Timișoara. The proposed working time in Timișoara is between 12–28 May 2023.

For more details on this residency call, please contact ip@institutulprezentului.ro.

IP—The Institute of the Present is a research and an artist and theory resource platform in the field of visual and performing culture conceived by Ștefania Ferchedău and Alina Șerban, established in Bucharest.

The “Uncensored Act” programme dwells on the idea of community, collective action, collaboration and solidarity in the spirit of shared values, with a route that is triggered by the history of Timișoara in the 1989 context, connected regionally and internationally through the proposed artistic content.

The project is part of the national cultural programme “Timișoara—European Capital of Culture in the year 2023” and is funded by the City of Timișoara through the Center for Projects.

COLLEGIUM residency programme is organised in the frame of the projects “Uncensored Act” and “COLLEGIUM. A Possible History of the Invisible.” Cultural project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. Partners: MV Sci-Art Center, Indecis.

The project does not necessarily represent the standpoint of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN cannot be held liable for the content of the project or the manner in which the outcomes of the project may be used. These shall devolve entirely on the beneficiary of the financing.

Photograph: Artist Neda Kovinić & students revisiting “The Sadness” (1992–1993) by ŠKART in October 2022 in Timișoara.