Request for Proposals for Productions (Arts Practice) | Deadline Extended: May 31, 2021 (CLOSED)
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for
Productions
Under its Arts Practice programme
Application deadline extended to Monday, May 31, 2021
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.
Productions:
Artists might arrive at a point in their own artistic journeys when they want to revisit/ reimagine their practice by challenging received frameworks and/or by exploring fresh possibilities of creating as well as presenting artistic work. Such a quest could manifest as productions that embody a spirit of inquiry and experimentation.
Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for Productions that emerge from such a quest. These projects could include performative, aural, visual, digital, literary works or interdisciplinary work that encompasses these forms. Proposals for theatre, dance and music performances, installations, exhibitions, books, zines and other publications, film and moving image presentations, games, interfaces and other digital artworks, and other forms yet to be imagined are welcome.
To read translations of this Request for Proposals in certain Indian languages, click here.
Duration of the project: Up to 18 months
Budget: Up to a maximum of Rs 5,00,000/-
Extended Deadline: May 31, 2021
Who can send project proposals?
The programme invites proposals from practitioners working within as well as across all 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.
How to send project proposals?
- You can write your proposal in any Indian language including English. IFA encourages projects in Indian languages other than English
- Final proposals must reach us by May 31, 2021
Send us a proposal describing:
- Your existing arts practice, concerns and interests as a practitioner
- Details of the Production you want to create and the reason why
- Detailed timeline and budget
- Examples of earlier work
- Your biodata with address, phone number and email id
Selection Process:
The shortlisted proposals will be evaluated by an external panel and applicants will be required to present their project ideas to the panel. Projects selected for implementation will be announced in August 2021. Four projects will be chosen and IFA’s decision on these will be final.
Proposal Submissions:
Your final proposals can be sent:
- Online in a single email not more than 24 MB to Sumana Chandrashekar, Programme Lead, at sumana@indiaifa.org with the Subject Line: Project Proposal for Productions (Arts Practice) OR
- By post to: Sumana Chandrashekar, Programme Lead, India Foundation for the Arts, 'Apurva' Ground Floor, No 259, 4th Cross, Raj Mahal Vilas 2nd Stage, 2nd Block, Bangalore – 560 094, Phone: 080-2341 4681 / 82
For any queries and clarification regarding your proposal, please write to sumana@indiaifa.org
All selected projects will be implemented by IFA.
The Arts Practice programme is supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.