[rohrpost] INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ART AND THEORY AT KÜNSTLERHAUS BÜCHSENHAUSEN: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2011-12

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INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ART AND THEORY AT KÜNSTLERHAUS 
BÜCHSENHAUSEN
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2011-12

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art 
critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 
2011--2012. Candidates can apply for one semester (October 3, 2011 -- 
February 11, 2012 or February 14, 2012 - June 24, 2012). The fellowship 
can be split across two semesters.

CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 31, 2011 (POSTMARK).

With its "Fellowship Program for Art and Theory", Büchsenhausen promotes 
internationally relevant artistic production, research, and discussion 
in the region of Tyrol. The program is based on the idea of generating 
and maintaining a context for production and discussion, in which 
artists and theorists can connect and reflect on international art and 
societal discourses in relation to local topics and issues. At the same 
time, it affords the opportunity for an artistic laboratory of 
experimentation, where new artistic practices and strategies may be 
tried out.

The program's aims are:
* to promote and relay a critical, socially relevant production of 
knowledge in art and art theory;
* to produce, through the fellowship projects, qualified discourses on 
art and society within the local and global contexts;
* to enable the transfer of knowledge between the field of art and other 
publics outside the art context;
* to facilitate the exchange between cultural producers in the visual 
arts and beyond (creating a network of experts).

The program brings together the advantages of a residency with the 
possibilities of a postgraduate non-university lectureship, without 
offering a formalized educational program. In terms of content, the 
program addresses a worldwide public made up of professionals in the 
fields of contemporary art, architecture, art and media theory, and 
criticism.

The fellows are selected by a jury of experts following an open call for 
applications. They come to Büchsenhausen for one or two semesters to 
work on realizing their submitted projects or research, and accompany 
this process with public events. For this purpose, Büchsenhausen offers 
a monthly stipend, a production budget, working spaces, free lodging, 
and artistic and technical advice.

The conveyance and discussion of the fellow's own work occurs parallel 
to the development of the individual projects. The public events take 
place in series. The focus of these series of events is determined by 
the respective emphases of the various fellows' works. Within the 
framework of this discursive format, the fellows (or their guests) can 
present various points in their research, open up their 
works-in-progress to critical discussion, interact with experts who they 
invite, work through content with the public, and/or try out new ways of 
working. The fellowship year ends with a group exhibition curated by the 
director of the Fellowship Program.

The entire call and further information about the application procedure 
can be found at http://buchsenhausen.at.

For additional information, please contact: office at buchsenhausen.at, 
phone +43 512 278627, fax -11.

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Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13/12
6020 Innsbruck, Austria

phone +43 512 278627
fax +43 512 278627-11
office at buchsenhausen.at

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