Request for Proposals: Arts Platforms
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for
Arts Platforms
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.
Arts Platforms:
Artists might at times feel the need to come together to exchange ideas, foster new ways of expression or to generate nurturing networks that help sustain their practice. Such a desire to congregate might be triggered by a seeking for new artistic ideas outside of their own domain, a need to break free from a long period of solitary practice or by an urgency to respond artistically to a particular socio-political situation.
Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for Arts Platforms that seek to build and stimulate networks and spaces - physical or otherwise - that bring together artists within or across practices on a common ground with the aim of building solidarities, enabling creativity and sustainability of their practices.
Duration of the project: Up to 12 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.
Proposal Submission:
You can write your proposal in any Indian language including English. IFA encourages projects in Indian languages other than English.
Send us your application with the following:
- Your existing arts practice, concerns and interests as a practitioner
- Details of the Arts Platform you want to create and the reason why, along with details about the partners/ collaborators and the network/ space/ place where you want to enable/host it
- Detailed timeline and budget
- Examples of earlier work, relevant to this application
- Your CV with address, phone number and email ID
You can send us your queries and draft ideas in written, audio or video formats for response from IFA staff. However, final proposals will have to be in written format only.
Send your final proposals to Sumana Chandrashekar, Programme Lead, at sumana@indiaifa.org. Please write to her regarding 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.