Residency for Research on Women & Nonbinary Photographers and Video Artists

AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is pleased to announce a residency at the Villa Vassilieff in Paris for research on women and non-binary photographers and video artists. During this three-month residency, the selected candidate will be invited to present their research during a public event as well as to write a research article for publication on the AWARE website. The residency includes an independent studio apartment within the Villa Vassilieff, a monthly living allowance, and transportation to and from Paris.

About AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions is an independent non-profit organization founded in 2014 that works towards making women artists of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries visible by producing and sharing free bilingual (French/English) content about their work on its website. This online resource presently contains 1,200 biographical texts and draws up to 100,000 visits per month.

AWARE represents a diversity of voices with texts written by around 500 researchers, curators, feminist art historians, art critics, and activists from all over the world. To widely disseminate research on women artists, AWARE also organizes symposia, round tables, and seminars in collaboration with institutions, universities, museums, and other independent structures internationally, and edits its own publications.

AWARE is located at the Villa Vassilieff in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris, where artist Marie Vassilieff set up her studio in the 1910s. Within this strongly symbolic space, AWARE has created a library and research center entirely devoted to women artists and feminist art, and hosts events, talks and school workshops.

Applications
The application deadline is October 6, 2024. Interviews with the pre-selected candidates will be held at the end of October. The selection committee will be composed of:

–Dr Taous Dahmani, scholar, lecturer, writer and curator
–Dr Flora Dunster, Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and co-author of Photography—A Queer History
–Dr Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, researcher and curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
–Nina Volz, head of international development at AWARE

To find out more and apply, please see the full call on the AWARE website. This residency received the support of Neuflize OBC Foundation.