Call for applications – “The Undisciplined Eye. Everyday Life beyond Narration”

CEREFREA Villa Noël launches a residency program for artistic research in Bucharest, dedicated to artists from Central and Southeastern Europe whose practice is actively exploring the concept of intermediality and tests different transdisciplinary methodologies in the artistic production. The focus of the residency is to set up a regional network in the sphere of artistic research, strengthening the exchanges with connected cultural domains such as social sciences, humanities, architecture, opening up opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between various artists and researchers. The CEREFREA residency program aims at building up a centre for international cooperation and a platform for academic and artistic exchange in Bucharest. The program follows closely a research theme, which will be examined in the course of two years. A guest curator will coordinate the program and will organize at the end of the residencies an exhibition project together with the selected artists. The art historian and curator Alina Șerban will coordinate the first edition of the CEREFREA residency program. The Undisciplined Eye. Everyday Life beyond Narration is the theme of the first two editions of CEREFREA Villa Noël artistic residency in Bucharest. The purpose of the program is to reflect by means of artistic research upon the idea of document and to explore its multiple codes in contemporary visual practices. The theme endeavours to interrogate the specific conditions of life of the contemporary man, proposing to renounce to descriptive and narrative formats with the help of analytical and transdisciplinary methods. The program will support those artistic projects that propose a site-specific research inspired by the Romanian social context or an in-depth reflection on subjects from the living contexts of the artists of the former Eastern bloc. The residency program encourages projects that advance new frameworks for visual research and touch upon the territories of negotiation between different collective histories and personal experiences, between contemporary social realities, urban economies and everyday life space. During the residency, the selected artists will give a public talk and will participate in an exhibition and a panel discussion at the end of their stay in Bucharest. A series of meetings with local artists, curators and scholars will be organized. Conditions of residency: Number of places: 3 positions for 3 non-Romanian Central and Southeastern European artists The residence period is 2 months: between July 1 to August 31, 2016. The grant includes: • Transport to Bucharest and return; • A monthly stipend of 4050 lei gross (approx. 900 euro gross); • Accommodation in Villa Noël in Bucharest; • Individual and common work areas; • A joint production grant for the final exhibition of 8,000 lei gross (approx. 1750 euro gross). Deadline for submitting the applications: June 20, 2016. The application consists of a CV (not to exceed 4 pages), a cover letter presenting the project and its relevance in the context of the theme of the program (not to exceed 2 pages) and the contacts of two people who can provide references for applicant. All materials will be written either English or French. Materials will be sent in a single PDF (not to exceed 3MB) by e-mail: Selection committee: Simona NECULA, General Secretary CEREFREA Villa Noël, University of Bucharest Damiana OŢOIU, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest Dan PERJOVSCHI, visual artist, writer, journalist Alina ȘERBAN, art historian and curator, PEPLUSPATRU Association http://www.villanoel.ro/call-for-applications-program-for-arti