Showcase your Creativity: Arts Practice Programme (India)

These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.

Artists might at times feel the need to come together to exchange ideas, foster new ways of expression or to generate nurturing networks that help sustain their practice. Such a desire to congregate might be triggered by a seeking for new artistic ideas outside of their own domain, a need to break free from a long period of solitary practice or by an urgency to respond artistically to a particular socio-political situation.

Under the Arts Practice programme, they invite proposals for Arts Platforms that seek to build and stimulate networks and spaces – physical or otherwise – that bring together artists within or across practices on a common ground with the aim of building solidarities, enabling creativity and sustainability of their practices.

Programme Budget 

• 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: Up to 12 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 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.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are eligible to send project proposals if you are an Indian national.
• Your collaborators too must be Indian nationals.

For more information, visit India Foundation for the Arts.