Request for Proposals: Workshops/ Residencies (Arts Practice) | Applications accepted throughout the Year

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for
Workshops/ Residencies
Under its Arts Practice programme

Applications are accepted throughout the year

Click here to read the 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, and explore new modes of engagement with space, audience, and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.

Workshops/ Residencies:

Historically, when artists from different disciplines put their heads together, important breakthroughs in artistic methods have come about. These gatherings of artists could be across regions or generations. Artists would discuss, innovate, and improvise on techniques and concepts. Today, artistic workshops and residencies could become significant spaces for artistic peer networks that bring together unforeseen confluence of creative energies. They may become spaces to explore how practices are evolving and to reflect on 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 that seek to create situations that foster exchange, dialogue, debate, learning, and mentorship. This may include residencies that nurture artists, encourage collaboration, and facilitate experimentation; workshops, or other forms of gathering that help build knowledge, generate insight, and expand arts practices.

Duration of the project: Upto six 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 books, graphic narrative, artist books, and other visual arts
  • Curators, especially those working outside of the gallery context
  • Poets, novelists, and 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 your CV (with address, phone number and email ID) and a proposal describing: 

  • Your ongoing artistic or curatorial concerns as a cultural practitioner 
  • The motivation for the Workshop/ Residency proposed 
  • The thematic focus of the Workshop/ Residency proposed 
  • Conceptual elaboration of the Workshop/ Residency theme
  • The envisioned experience for the Facilitators/ Participants/ Collaborators 
  • The methods of the Workshop/ Residency proposed 
  • Detailed timeline and budget
  • Examples of earlier work relevant to this application

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 with the subject line: Project Proposal for Workshops/Residencies (Arts Practice). 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.