[rohrpost] KUNSTLERHAUS BUCHSENHAUSEN INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ART AND THEORY 2012-13

[Kunsterhaus Buchsenhausen]

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ART AND THEORY AT KÜNSTLERHAUS 
BÜCHSENHAUSEN 2012-13
Call For Applications

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art 
critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 
2012--2013. Candidates can apply for one semester (October 1, 2012 -- 
February 15, 2013 or February 18, 2013 - June 28, 2013). The fellowship 
can be split across two semesters.

The closing date for submissions is February 3, 2012 (postmark).


With its Fellowship Program for Art and Theory, Künstlerhaus 
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.

For former and current fellows and their projects please visit 
http://buchsenhausen.at.

The complete Call for Applications and further information can be found 
here: 
http://buchsenhausen.at/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=8&page_id=11&menublock=2&newlang=eng

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

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Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
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phone +43 512 278627
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