Deadline: Ongoing
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for the Workshops/Residencies under its Arts Practice programme.
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, they 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.
Budget
- Up to a maximum of Rs 3,00,000/- (You can request for an honorarium not exceeding 30% of the proposed budget).
- Duration of the project: Upto six months.
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
Criteria
The criteria for eligibility to apply under the programme are as follows:
- Only Indian nationals can apply. This does not include PIO (Persons of Indian Origin) and OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) Card Holders.
- Applicants must have PAN card and one of the following for proof of identity and citizenship – Indian Passport or Aadhar Card or Voter’s ID in India.
- Only individuals can apply. Organisations of any kind cannot apply (except for non-profit schools, who can only apply under the Arts-Integrated Projects in Schools category of the Arts Education programme).
- If there are collaborators in the projects, they must also be Indian nationals.
- Persons who have a past history of financial delinquency with IFA are not eligible.
- Persons who have failed to deposit at IFA agreed deliverables from an earlier IFA grant are not eligible.
- Persons who have previously received a letter from IFA disallowing them from applying in the future for any reason are not eligible.
- Persons currently working on a project implemented by IFA are not eligible to apply.
- More than one individual can apply if they have a joint account. If they do not, then only one among them should apply with the others as collaborators.
For more information, visit India Foundation for the Arts (IFA).
