[spectre] AiR_PORT 03 grant, Graz

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>> AiR_PORT 03 =96 Artists-in-Residence-Program <<

AiR_PORT 03 =96 Call for Applications

Forum Stadtpark Artists-in-Residence-Program 2003

Working Grant : working grants for artists whose work takes an interdiscip=
linary 
approach; term of one to three months with active integration in the Tuesd=
ay Series 
(regularly scheduled talks/events), participation in workshops with local =
artists, 
discussions with students, as well as a concluding presentation.

Project Grant : focused on conceiving, organizing and carrying out venture=
s of 
special interest and projects involving guests from Austria and abroad in =
Forum 
Stadtpark. A total of eight grants will be awarded.

The grants are in the amount of 872 Euros per month and include the use of=
 the 
technical infrastructure (audio studio and video editing equipment, etc.) =
and facilities 
(seminar room/club/library/archive), the option of living in a Forum Stadt=
park guest 
apartment (or an alternative residential arrangement or receiving an addit=
ional 218 
Euros per month), as well as a project budget depending on the respective 
proposal and the institution=92s available financial means. The choice of =
recipients is 
made by an independent jury; the decision regarding the project budget is =
made by 
the Forum Stadtpark=92s management.

Formats : DIN A4, max. 20 pages, bound; biography: DIN A4, max. 3 pages; w=
hen 
submitting media (max. 1 medium): CD-ROM (Mac- or PC-compatible) or video 
(VHS), format clearly labeled, index on an accompanying sheet.

Submit applications with a time budget and working plan as well as an esti=
mate of 
the project=92s cost by November 15, 2002 to: Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1=
, A-8010 
Graz, Austria, or via mail to: forum@mur.at.

Forum Stadtpark Graz is an interdisciplinary laboratory and venue for the 
presentation of visual art, new media, literature, architecture, photograp=
hy, video, 
theory and theater. The Forum is a 40-year-old institution that has played=
 a key role 
in postwar artistic and cultural developments in Austria. Having establish=
ed itself in 
the Graz cultural scene, the Forum has succeeded=97thanks to its organizat=
ional 
structure and the substance of its undertakings=97in repeatedly renewing a=
nd 
rejuvenating itself, and has come to constitute the paradox of a self-orga=
nized 
cultural institution=97simultaneously its most unique feature and its stre=
ngth. The 
Forum offers a focused and ambitious program on contemporary discourses in=
 the 
international artistic and cultural scene that is made available to a broa=
d public in 
exhibitions, speeches and workshops. Thus, the Forum as a venue for dialog=
ue 
also has a specific function for Graz, in that the speakers who have their=
 say here 
are those individuals operating at the interfaces of leading-edge developm=
ents. With 
its AiR_port Artists-in-Residence program (in cooperation with Graz 2003),=
 Forum 
Stadtpark has been able to more strongly position itself as a vital node w=
ithin a 
young European network of theoretically grounded artistic production and 
discussion.