Request for Proposals: Workshops/ Residencies/ Seminars | Applications accepted throughout the Year
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for
Workshops/ Residencies/ Seminars
Under its Arts Practice programme
Applications can be sent any time during the year
Click here to read translations of this call in other Indian languages
The Arts Practice programme seeks to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.
Workshops/ Residencies/ Seminars:
Historically, important breakthroughs in artistic methods, materials and concepts came about when artists from different generations with various experiences, across regions, put their heads together, to discuss, innovate and improvise techniques and ideas. Today, workshops, residencies and seminars that reflect on arts practice become significant spaces for artistic peer networks that bring together an unforeseen confluence of energies, to explore how practices are evolving and where they are headed. These events could also become enabling spaces for listening to hitherto unheard voices.
Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for Workshops/ Residencies/ Seminars that seek to create situations which foster exchange, dialogue, debate, learning, and mentorship. This may include residencies that nurture artists, encourage collaboration and facilitate experimentation; workshops, seminars or other forms of gathering that help build knowledge, generate insight and expand arts practice/s.
Duration of the project: Upto 6 months
Budget: Up to a maximum of Rs 3,00,000/- (You can request for an honorarium not exceeding 30% of the proposed budget)
Calendar: Proposals can be sent at any time during the year
Who can send project proposals?
The programme invites proposals from practitioners working within as well as across disciplines. These could include:
- Performing artists working in music, sound, text, dance, movement, theatre, puppetry, storytelling, magic, circus and other performance arts
- Visual artists working across all forms including film (documentary and fiction), animation, photography, installation, new media, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, interactive arts, gaming, painting, sculpture, printmaking, comic book, graphic narrative, artist book and other visual arts
- Curators, especially those working outside of the gallery context
- Poets, novelists, playwrights working with literary arts
- Practitioners engaged in interdisciplinary work
Eligibility:
You are eligible to send project proposals if you are an Indian national. Your collaborators too must be Indian nationals. For details please click here.
Submission Guidelines:
Send us a proposal describing:
- Your existing arts/curatorial practice, concerns and interests as a practitioner
- Details of the Workshop, Residency or Seminar, with a note on its context, need, and relevance
- Detailed timeline and budget
- Examples of earlier work relevant to this application
- Your CV with address, phone number and email ID
- You can write your proposal in any Indian language, including English. IFA encourages projects in Indian languages other than English. You can send us your queries and draft ideas in written, audio or video formats for response from IFA staff.
- Send your final proposal to John Xaviers, Programme Officer: Arts Practice, at john@indiaifa.org. Please write to the same email ID for any queries and clarifications as well.
All selected projects will be implemented by IFA.
Please note that IFA is committed to creating a safe environment that supports, respects, and protects everyone, including children. The applicant must be aligned with this and must uphold it at all times.
The Arts Practice programme is made possible with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.