Deadline: 2 July 2024
Tokyo Arts and Space is inviting applications from distinguished and highly motivated curators in the field of curation, art criticism, and cultural research from all over the world and offer them with opportunities to conduct research in Tokyo.
They provide support to allow curators to develop and present their research and ideas. Selected curators are required to give mentoring sessions to local emerging creators, and deliver a public talk.
What TOKAS offers?
- Living space (single room)
- Airfare: A round-trip economy-class air ticket between the nearest airport from the place of residence and Tokyo (either Narita or Haneda Airport) will be provided
- Fee for research/project: JPY 100,000 (consumption tax excluded)
- Income tax (20.42%) will be deducted from the above amounts
Duration
- 1 to 3 months within the following residency periods:
- From the beginning of May, 2025 to the end of July, 2025
- From the beginning of September, 2025 to the end of November, 2025
- From the beginning of January, 2026 to the end of March, 2026
Eligibility Criteria
- Resides outside of Japan
- Has 3 years or more of experience in his/her specialized area of expertise
- Has sufficient ability to communicate in English with other residing creators and TOKAS staff for mutual understanding
- Independent and capable of working and living on his/her own
- Curators working as a duo are ineligible
- Students are ineligible (except for Ph.D. candidates)
- This program is aimed at those curators
- who are willing to conduct new research in Tokyo
- who practice in any of the following cultural/artistic fields:
- curation, art criticism and cultural research
- who are eager to exchange with local emerging creators.
For more information, visit Tokyo Arts and Space.
