MAP is opening its annual residency program for 2024 at Sutton House on the edge of the Residential Red Zone in Ōtautahi Christchurch. This residency offers 2 artists the resources to go deeply into their own practice and research while also outward reaching through a framework of activities.
The Research Exchange Residency gives artists:
- the time and space to focus solely on their art, without the distractions of their usual environment;
- the chance to relate differently within a location, being exposed to a new community, techniques, and materials;
- an occasion to build long-lasting relationships with other creative individuals;
- convenience to experiment with new approaches to their work;
- opportunities to showcase their work to a wider audience.
Artists in residence are expected to engage with:
- At least 1 workshop each (or combined, or both)
- 1 combined closing research presentation
- 1 written contribution to The Map each
The two selected artists will reside at Sutton House during 16th Jan – 25th Feb 2024. The Research Performances will take place consecutively at the end of February and embodiments/aspects of their work will take part in the MAP Resides exhibition at CoCA – Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki in March 2024.
This year’s programme focuses on provocations towards Speculative Futures.
Artists are invited to respond to questions such as – but not limited to:
- Which worlds would you design/erase/construct/destroy/form/reform/perform/deform?
- Through what other relationships with time could we move?
- What if past, present and future met and/or collapsed?
- Which ways your practice could move us beyond what currently exists into the realms of what could be?
In the modes of practice, we invite artists to engage with:
- Time-based works that challenge the conventions of form
- Consider the possibility of Site Responsiveness, acknowledging the interferences the territory creates in their experience in residence as well as their interferences onto the territory.
- Be open to Collaborative Contamination whereby the artists in residence work on their own projects while being affected – and affecting – each other’s works in unprescribed ways of collaboration.
Selection of applications will be open between 14 September and 11 October 2023.
Results: 6 November 2023
MAP would like to invite interested parties to an informal online meeting on (when) at 17:30 via the ZOOM platform. The MAP team will be there to answer any questions related to the open call, the selection process, or other rising questions.
Q&A: 27 September 2023 • 17:30-18:30 (NZT)
contact email for any questions related to the open call: residencies@movementartpractice.org
For more information and to apply visit our website or fill out the form here.
We are excited to receive your applications!
– The MAP team