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The Rufus Stone Residency

Suitable for self-directed and/or research based projects, open to artists at any stage in their career in any medium (including but not limited to visual art, writing, video, movement, performance, social practice etc.). We are especially interested in working with artists who have strategies for reaching audiences without the mediation of traditional institutions or structures.  We are looking for artists who would prefer to have a straightforward connection to society without having their work regarded as mere craft. We wish to support and learn from artists looking “to produce a different kind of art” who realize it is necessary to step through the standardization and professionalization it promises, and discover a way to access whatever may be on the other side—even if what one finds does not resemble art as we currently understand it… those that believe that art can not be reduced to an economic activity.(1) NOTE: This very new residency currently has no external funding support.  It is based on artists enabling and supporting other artists. Rufus Stone is a non-political and non-grant-making collaboration of artists and curators. 

Included:

Central London accommodation (in the home of an artist)

Possible rural accommodation (in the home of an artist)

Utilities and administrative costs, Access to wifi; a 24” Mac with Photoshop

Support and assistance in accessing further resources

In person and “virtual” discussions with artists and curators concerning work in progress

Resident provides:

Transportation to London and local transport expenses

Food (breakfast provided), pocket money and all project funds

THIS RESIDENCY DOES NOT INCLUDE STUDIO SPACE

Artists are encouraged to seek their own funding through independent grant applications. If selected, the residency can be used as a “matching” contribution in grant applications.  We are willing to be very flexible on dates to accommodate funding arrangements and can ‘hold open’ a residency slot for those in the process of securing grant funding. 

Note:

This is a self-directed programme suitable for proactive and very independent artists.  

We do not take a mentoring role; we take an enabling role.

We are very open to taking a collaborative role depending on the project.

(1) Essential reading in preparing an application: Anton Vidokle Art without Market, Art without Education: Political Economy of Art, e-flux.

Photo credit: Abtin Eshraghi