The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, is establishing a new fellowship in ‘Arts, Societies and Contemporary Mutations’. In this context, the IEA in collaboration with local partners, Lieu Unique, the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts and Nantes Métropole, is offering an international artistic and research residency to artists from the global south. This residency, supported by Nantes Métropole – Culture Department, will run for 6 months from 10 September 2024 – 10 March 2025.
The chair supports the development of research in art that dialogues with the humanities and social sciences in order to question the contemporary mutations of our societies. By considering artistic practices in terms of research, the residency participates in the emergence of new research territories (practices and forms, working methods, production regimes, etc.) exploring, through the crossing of disciplines, societal and environmental changes. It engages methodological questions and reflections on the nature of the knowledge incorporated, produced, and transmitted by these practices.
This residency is open to professional artists living and working in the Global South. More precisely, the organisers are targeting artists whose nationality and residency are situated in the southern hemisphere excepting Australia, New-Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Guyane. Applicants are expected to have at least five years of professional experience at the time of the start of their residency, which should be supported through their active participation in public life, the dissemination of their work in an appropriate format such as exhibitions, publications, performances, etc.
The artist will receive a remuneration and benefits package that includes:
- A monthly stipend that includes time spent in the workshops with the students (2000 € per month).
- 13 working days of authorised absence (10% of the total duration of the fellowship).
- Free accommodation.
- Free use of office space and access to library services.
- Insurance (75€ per month).
- Production costs (up to €2000).
- Visa and return ticket from the domicile.
