Deadline: 30 April 2025
The India Foundation for the Arts is seeking applications for its Explorations Arts Practice Programme to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions.
Under the Arts Practice programme, they invite proposals for such Explorations that seek to probe, test and play around with ideas nascent, risky or unprecedented. These may not necessarily lead to an outcome. Such explorations could include researching, script-writing, location scouting, animatics, jamming, storyboarding, rehearsing, sampling, robotics, lab explorations and other forms of exploratory work that are used to examine ideas.
Funding Information
- Up to a maximum of Rs 1,00,000/-
- Up to six months
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite 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
- You are eligible to send project proposals if you are an Indian national. Your collaborators too must be Indian nationals.
Application Requirements
- You can write your proposal in any Indian language, including English. IFA encourages projects in Indian languages other than English.
- Send them your application with the following:
- Your existing arts practice, concerns and interests as a practitioner
- Details of the Exploration you want to pursue and the reason why
- Detailed timeline and budget
- Examples of earlier work
- Your CV with address, phone number and email ID
- You can send them your queries and draft ideas in written, audio or video formats for response from IFA staff till April 23, 2025
For more information, visit IFA.
