Applications open for Sound Art Residency Program 2024-25

Through the Sound Residency programme, the museum funds the creation of a sound work that could be integrated into its collections. The work produced during the residency may result from a transdisciplinary artistic practice and need not be purely sound based.

Funding Information

• The fixed amount of funding granted to the winner is €8,000 excluding tax.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Sound Residency at the musée du Branly Jacques Chirac is exclusively open to artists from one of the four continents represented in the museum’s collections: Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. Artists from these geographic areas (including French overseas departments and territories) or those holding dual nationality are eligible to apply. There is no age limit for applicants.
• A Project can be presented by several artists or by a collective. In this case, the grant amount must be shared between those presenting the project together.
• A Project (identical or similar) cannot be resubmitted if it has already been presented in a previous call for projects at the musée du quai Branly. In such cases, the project will not be evaluated by the jury.

Application Requirements

• A completed and signed registration form (if the project is submitted by several people, each member of the collective must fill out a form)
• A candidate’s statement of intent presenting their project (maximum 4,000 characters including spaces, typed, written in French and/or English)
• The statement of intent must be accompanied by a summary of 1,000characters maximum, including spaces
• A biography of the candidate summarizing key points of their training, professional activity, exhibitions or events they have participated in, their agents and/or galleries, their publications, and mentioning any grants or awards they have received (written in French and/or English)
• A photocopy of the candidate’s valid identity document
• Between one and three links to digital documents, and/or printed documents representing their work and previous projects
• A detailed technical sheet of the proposed work, including:
  • A technical description of the work, including the planned presentation elements (scenography)
  • Budget elements to assess the production costs of the work (artistic costs, technical costs, research and organization costs, etc.)
  • The number and type of existing sound or audiovisual sources envisaged, if applicable.

For more information, visit Jacques Chirac.