The Nomad Curator and Lote 84 announce a brand new art residency in Brazil
After a 6-year experience around the world, including 12 months in Egypt developing art projects, curating exhibitions, a biennial, and running art residencies, The Nomad Curator starts a partnership with Lote 84 in Brazil. Together, they share this new initiative that will host a series of residencies, courses and exhibitions in the beautiful neighbourhood of Praia dos Amores, part of the resort city of Balneário Camboriú, in the South of the country. The residency welcomes artists and researchers from all kinds of art. Yet, we are specially interested in contemporary art and less traditional practices.
The theme of this residency is: "Disorder and Art: contemporary reflections in an era of catastrophes"
The applicants are invited to reflect, question and suggest changes through the act of making art in a troubled world. This residency stimulates the reflexion on social-political-economic issues of contemporary times and invites us all to debate the power of art (or the absence of it) in times of conflicts, fights for power, international potencies in disagreement, strength of totalitarian regimes, rising of fascist ideas, big economic gaps, imaginary and real borders, among others.
The residency includes the artist participation in talks and seminars and proposes a solo or (the participation on) group exhibition in the middle of the year, depending on the results inside the experience.
The applicant will be guided and have the support of The Nomad Curator during her/his weeks of stay. Brazilian creators are also glad to contribute, dialogue and exchange ideas.
Every participant is encouraged to give a public talk to the local community about her/his career and this in loco experience at the end of the residency.
The artist will have access to a private bedroom and bathroom and the collective areas - including two studios, kitchen, laundry room, balconies and garden.
General Information
Residency length: from 3 to 6 weeks (longer periods can be arranged if justified)
Residency period: it needs to be completed before the end of July/2019
Costs: US$180 per week (bedroom/bathroom, studio, use of common areas and curatorial support included)
Residency languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish (Portuñol!), Italian, and a bit of French :)
Grants: The Nomad Curator is a non-profit project and it is not currently offering grants, but we are happy to write you letters of recommendation
We encourage and support artists currently living in war and conflict zones to apply for this art residency, by addressing the Brazilian Embassies in your location, providing letters of invitation and information needed.
Documentation/Application
- Name (as in the passport), Artistic Name (if applies)
- Nationality/Country of Residency
- Research/Proposal/Concept/Project/Concept: maximum 500 words
- Details of the working space needed
- Samples of the previous works/projects (minimum 5, maximum 10)
- Professional social media links and usernames
- Curriculum (maximum 2 pages)
The Nomad Curator reserves the right to not accept incomplete applications and or concepts based on any kind of racism, prejudice or discrimination.
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Lote 84 is a collaborative space initiated by the cultural producer Luciana Siebert in the South of Brazil. It consists of a cultural hub that aims the growth of a conscious and balanced society, where activities that stimulate perception and empathy construct a new chain of values that expect to surpass the perpetual wheel of capitalism. Its main initiatives are related to artistic practice, art and social science courses, and art residences. From May 2019, Lote 84 will also host the art gallery Útero.
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The Nomad Curator is an art professional, an educator, an institution and a woman - all together. She founded an art collective in Brazil in 2008 and has been working around the world for the past years. Latest projects include art and educational programs with Palestinian and Syrian refugees (Beirut, Beqaa Valley, Cairo, Damascus and Miniara), curated exhibitions in Venice and Islamabad, an art program in the Brooklyn Children's Museum (New York), a workshop for Azerbaijani artists at Yarat for Contemporary Art (Baku), the curation (in collaboration) of Off Biennale Cairo 2018.
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