AIR InSILo is an artist-run independent initiative, located near the city of Vienna in the town of Hollabrunn (Lower Austria). It offers the hosted artists independent separate rooms for stay and work with media projects or conceptual art projects; it is equipped with wood and metal workshops; inside and outside spaces for an undisturbed creative process.
Open Call for Long-Term Residency
Understanding artistic creation as a basic need, artists, curators, and researchers are invited to contribute their thoughts and energy to conceptualise the takes on the sustainability of individuum’s lives and ethical challenges and boundaries of sustainability of artistic production; to think of artistic production as non-commodity; to imagine alternative economic systems to sustain artistic production; to define boundaries of living space and workspace, leisure time and work time; to meditate on open-source appropriate technologies and open-design; to find the ways of collaborations of disjoint decentralized communities.
Application Guidelines
• A proposal letter must match the conceptual direction and envision of a curatorial statement. Extra consideration will be given to disarming creativity and irrestrainable experimentation.
• AIR InSILo pays big attention to the principles of inclusivity and diversity. The main focus is on late-emerging/ early mid-career artists; the artists coming to the “critical” threshold – age of 35, when institutional support is already fading.
• Special attention will be given to:
– Working mothers
– Underrepresented artists
– Artists from countries with minimum/ non-existing support for art and culture
– LGBTQ+ representatives
Unfortunately, so far the residency is not equipped for wheel-chairs access and is not considered to be entirely safe for children under 3 y.o.
A submission proposal should be put in one PDF file (10 MB).
It should contain:
• A proposal letter with a conceptual direction and envision of a proposed open call topic. It should be submitted in two versions: short – up to 1000 characters and long – up to 4000 characters
• BIO – up to 1000 characters
• Portrait – b/w, vertical, 1500 px on a longer side
• CV – 2 pages maximum
• Portfolio of realised projects – up to 10 pages
• A presentation of the main proposal with illustrations, drafts, sketches, links, etc.
For IMAGES: artist name, artwork title, year, medium, dimensions, additional description. For VIDEO/AUDIO: URL links for video and time-based work. Vimeo is better for video. Soundcloud is preferred for audio + password, artist name, artwork title, year, duration, additional description.
The working language of the Residency is English. Residency organizers are also able to communicate in German and Russian.
Deadline: 15 September 2021, 15.00 CEST
