DECONFINING Project for Artist Residencies in Poland and Tanzania 2023

The ART TRANSPARENT Foundation (Wroc?aw, Poland) and Nafasi Art Space (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), are pleased to announce a call for artists for the DECONFINING project. We are looking for video artists to participate in research residencies and develop new moving image works.

One of the aims of the DECONFINING project is to foster relationships between artists and cultural professionals in Europe and Africa through residencies, the production of new works in moving image and their presentation and dissemination in the partner countries.

• Table of Content
• About DECONFINING
• DECONFINING Project
• Aim and Benefits of DECONFINING Project
• Requirements for DECONFINING Project Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About DECONFINING

DECONFINING is a four-year EU-funded project bringing together cultural practitioners, artists, policy makers, and audiences from two continents – Europe and Africa. Dedicated to contributing to a better understanding of (social, political and economic) confinement patterns from different viewpoints, the project aims to explore and develop new ways of intercontinental artistic and cultural (policy) cooperation and provide better access and information for intercontinental mobility and co-creation. Building on the close collaboration and exchange between European and African Capit...... continue reading

DECONFINING Project

Aim and Benefits of DECONFINING Project

• Research residency in Tanzania for artists from Europe (1-2 weeks);
• research residency in Poland for artists from Africa (1-2 weeks);
• networking with experts in the chosen research field;
• opportunity to get to know the partners' artistic community through networking events and presentations;
• production budget to create a new moving image work;
• presentation of the work in Wroclaw and Dar es Salaam.

Requirements for DECONFINING Project Qualification

• Artists working with moving images and with documented artistic experience (works, exhibitions, projects, etc.).
• Coming from or based in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kenya, Poland, Rwanda, Slovakia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia,
• With a working knowledge of English.
• Availability to travel on research residencies (artists from Europe to Tanzania in January 2024; artists from Africa to Poland in June 2024);
• Ability to create moving images according to an agreed timeframe;
• Proven experience;
• The working language of the project is English, so communicative knowledge of this language is required. (Moving image works can be created in the languages of the participants).

Check also:
Commonwealth Master's Scholarship to Study in UK 2027/2028
Mandela Washington Fellowship for Africans 2027 (Fully Funded to USA)

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Apply by filling in this form by 31 August 2023. The application requires the following:

• An art portfolio showcasing artworks with working links to view the moving image works,
• An artist CV highlighting experience (such as training, participation in exhibitions and projects, etc.),
• Short answers to three questions.

For more details, visit DECONFINING website.