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03.03.2021

Open Call: #VIRTUALSPAR & EUNIC

Deadline: 19 March 2021
Residency period: 17 May – 25 June 2021
Residency duration: up to 3 months
Ten artists from Russia and Europe are invited to participate in a virtual residency project organized by EUNIC in St. Petersburg in partnership with SPAR – the St. Petersburg Artists Residency. The project aims to foster international cultural exchange by providing opportunity for artistic collaboration.

The city: artistic image and social practice
These days, more than half of the planet´s population lives in cities. Whatever the future holds: The way we will live tomorrow will largely depend on how city life is changing today and how it will develop in times of global crises. Artists are among those who sense those changes very clearly. They transform their vision into "images", and at times work in social or participatory formats in the midst of our societies. What does their visual practice look like, and what can we learn from their social practice? These questions will guide a collaborative digital exhibition to be prepared on the basis of a virtual residency, the "Virtual Artists´ Assembly" (VITAA). VITAA, along with the exhibition-to-be, will be curated by Anastasia Patsey who manages the SPAR project and who is part of the curatorial team at the artists-run space "Puschkinskaya10".

More info here.
WHO CAN APPLY
  • application is open for artists acquainted with "digital art" from any field of the arts residing in the Netherlands, in Denmark, in Germany, in France, in Finland, in Italy and in the Russian Federation;
  • a good working knowledge of English will be indispensable (No intepretation provided.)
SUPPORT
  • opportunity to participate in a curated digital exhibition to be opened on 9 July 2021;
  • a scholarship of 1.000 € (European participants) or 90.000 Rubles (participants from the Russian Federation) for each participants.
EXPECTATION FROM PARTICIPANT
  • to contribute a work of art to the digital exhibition;
  • to actively participate in the residency with presentations, virtual excursions and collaborative work according to the residency schedule (which will demand only part-time involvement);
  • to contribute to a joyful spirit of collaboration to the group.


HOW TO APPLY
Please send us a letter describing your motivation to apply, and please include a PDF with your CV and information on your work incl. URLs of relevant sites and artwork stored in a cloud. Applicants should confirm their familiarity with "digital art" by providing one or more example/s of work digitally done or published.

Where to send: vitaa.apply@gmail.com
How to send: Please send 1 email with 1 attachment in PDF format of a maximum size of 10 Mbyte

INFORMATION AND CONTACT
www.facebook.com/eunicspb
vitaa@goethe.de
THE TIMELINE
Deadline: 19 March, 2021
Notifications will be sent by email by the end of the April 2021
The residency period is 17 May until 25 June 2021
Digital exhibition: 9 July 2021 – 30 September 2021