Application deadline: June 30th, 2013
HEAD – Genève
Geneva University of Art and Design
Boulevard James-Fazy 15
1201 Genève
T +41 22 388 5100
F +41 22 388 5159
www.head-geneve.ch
www.fieldworkmarfa.org
Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of two leading European art academies: Les Beaux-Arts Nantes and HEAD – Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design). This international researcher-in-residence program is dedicated to the practice of art in public space, critical approaches to landscape and artistic projects based on field investigation methodologies.
Located in Marfa, Texas, USA, this unique platform is intended for emerging artists and researchers whose projects require immersion into the specific environment of Marfa and Texas territory, necessitating movement through geography as well as time and space for the purposes of specific research work.
The residency time period is two months and comes with a research grant of 2000 USD, enabling the applicants to produce theoretical and/or practical work using their own methodologies, with support from a number of professional partners, specialized stakeholders and educational institutions. Fieldwork: Marfa research program is based on the idea that the residents develop their own research related to academic programs and curriculum of the two academies involved.
Marfa has been chosen by Beaux-arts Nantes and HEAD – Genève because of its location, its history and its condition that lies at the core of crucial obsessions, preoccupations and conflicts that are at work in contemporary society. The aim of the program is to engage artists into a singular experience, into a unique relationship with an outstanding environment, and into an intense social research field. The program relies on a collaborative network of like-minded international art schools and universities, research-based structures and art institutions.
Residents are selected on the basis of a research project in direct relationship with the context, through all its material, historical as well as political dimensions. The thematic focus for 2014 is: “borders”. Of six candidates chosen, three are alumni from HEAD Genève and/or les Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
For more information about the program and application procedures please visit: www.fieldworkmarfa.org/applicationform.
2013 artists/researchers in residence:
Camel Collective, MX/USA. Live and work in New York / Emilie Ding, CH. Lives and works in Berlin / Vianney Fivel & Ceel Mogami de Haas, CH. Live and work in Geneva / Fabien Giraud & Ida Soulard, FR. Lives and works in Paris / Joachim Hamou, DK. Lives and works in Copenhaguen.
Save the date: October 4th and 5th in Marfa, TX
Fieldwork’s annual symposium will take place on October 4th and 5th. On this occasion, Swiss artist Elisa Larvego’s first solo show will open in the USA, following her research residency from 2011. This project is part of a program that is devised to propose a series of three exhibitions a year in Fieldwork’s permanent gallery space in Marfa.
For the schedule and detailed information on all participants please see www.fieldworkmarfa.org. No registration necessary.
Les Beaux-Arts Nantes Métropole is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Consulate General of France in Houston, Texas.
HEAD – Genève is supported by Fondation AHEAD and Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva.
Contact:
Yann Chateigné, Head of Visual Arts departement
[email protected]
T+41 22 388 18 10
