[spectre] Fwd: Call for applications: Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen's International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2016–17

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: 	Call for applications: Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen's
International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2016–17
Datum: 	Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:00:05 -0500


Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

Call for applications: International Fellowship Program for Art and 
Theory 2016–17

October 3, 2016–February 12, 2017 or February 13–June 24, 2017
(the fellowship can be split across two semesters)

Submission deadline: January 29, 2016 (postmark)

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

T +43 512 278627, fax -11
office at buchsenhausen.at

http://buchsenhausen.at

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art
critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2016–17.
Candidates can apply for one semester: October 3, 2016–February 12, 2017 
or February 13–June 24, 2017. (The fellowship can be split across two 
semesters.)

The closing date for submissions is January 29, 2016 (postmark).

About Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is a post-graduate center for production,
research, and exchange in the fields of visual arts and art theory.
Within the framework of the International Fellowship Program for Art and 
Theory, the Künstlerhaus provides a platform that facilitates the
development and production of artistic and art-theoretical projects in a 
critical context. At the same time, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen offers a 
forum for direct exchange between professionals—artists, theoreticians, 
critics, and curators—from the region and abroad, as well as a point of 
interaction with local interested audiences. Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen 
is affiliated with the Tyrolean Artists' Association, the major 
association of visual artists from the region.

International Fellowship Program
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 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 proposed undertaking, 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 proposals. 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 investigations, 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 the full text of the call, more information on the application
procedure, financial questions, etc., please consult the website or
contact us at: office at buchsenhausen.at / T +43 512 278627, fax -11.