To apply please complete this application form, and send it to [email protected] alongside a CV and 10 images of your recent work.
12noon – Saturday 15 February 2020
LADA is collaborating with Performistanbul on an artistic development programme offering a performance artist who identifies as a woman a four-week project development workshop (24 February – 20 March, 2020) and a ten-day residency (21 – 31 of March, 2020) in Istanbul. The development scheme will include collaboration opportunities, art institutions’ visits, tutorials, workshops, talks and a final presentation in London and Istanbul.
The programme explores the idea of ‘home’ as a widened context – a space for being and creation. Home can be explained by multiple ways such as; love, identity, people, family, culture, belief, hope etc. It acts as a research project and goes deep into the artists’ inner space through their research. It invites artists to explore the current social-political issues through the lens of the idea of home, belonging, representation and questioning.
Performistanbul offers its research facilities and a flat apartment in the building of PCSAA for the selected artist during their stay of 10 days. The conversation between Performistanbul and the selected artist will start four weeks before the programme in order to plan the development and production of the project.
The participating artist will be selected by a jury composed of representatives from LADA, performistanbul and invited experts.
(*) Artist who self-identifies herself / themselves as a ‘woman’ – living and working within the UK.
Deadline for applications 12noon, Saturday 15 February.
The programme is developed with the support of the British Council’s #WomenPowerinCulture Grant Scheme.
February 15, 2020: Deadline
February 24, 2020: Announcement of the selected artist
February 24 – March 20, 2020: Mentoring Program
March 21- 31, 2020: Residency in PCSAA, Istanbul & Presentation of the project
The open call invites self-identifying women artists of all backgrounds without a limitation of a live practice. The brief should respond to the curatorial context of the programme.
Performistanbul offers its research facilities and a flat apartment in the building of PCSAA for the selected artist during their stay of 10 days. The conversation between Performistanbul and the selected artist will start four weeks before the programme in order to plan the development and production of the project.
The artist will have;
The venue selection in Istanbul will be made after the open call depending on the context of the performance and its relation with the space. The final performance will then travel to LADA, ending with a public event presenting the documentation of the performance in Istanbul, following with an artist talk including other cultural voices from the performance art world.
Performistanbul was founded with an initial aim to unite performance artists under one roof and promote their participation in new projects without a space of its own. Based in Istanbul, the platform continues to embrace its ‘’spaceless’’ identity by carrying out a flexible work model which consists in collaborating and developing projects with various art institutions and artists in the world.
Performistanbul is preparing to bring into being Turkey’s first Live Art Research Space, housing myriad resources on live art that will lead to a significant impact on the education and development of performance art. Therefore, Performistanbul Live Art Research Space (PCSAA), which will bring together over 7000 sources including international live art archives, documentations and publications is founded in the end of 2018.
Performistanbul: Simge Burhanoglu (Founding Director), Azra Işmen (Director), and Naz Balkaya (Assistant Curator and UK Representative)
LADA: Lois Keidan (Co-Founder and Director), Finn Love (Programmes), and Joseph Morgan Schofield (Resources and Coordination)
Independent: Seyhan Musaoğlu (Curator, Artist, Founder of Space Debris), Merve Ünsal (Artist, Researcher), and Beral Madra (Independent Curator, Art Critic, Founder of BM Contemporary Art Centre).
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