Open Calls
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Open Call | Dwell Here: One Month Residency at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
More Information
- Deadline: Wednesday, 18th September 2024 at 4pm
- Type: Funding/ OpportunitiesÂ
- Award: Four selected artists will be offered a Contract for Service with a fee of up to €16,000 to cover approximately 80 days spent working on the residency, including development, studio time, preparation, contact time and admin.
- Link to Application: https://imma.ie/whats-on/dwell-here-one-month-residency/
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling.
IMMA’s Dwell Here programme is structured around four seasonal Research Intensives – week-long forums with an expanded community of mentors, peers, and fellow residents gathering onsite for communal engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue. One month residents are invited to undertake independent, site-responsive research for three of their four week residency. The fourth week (whether at the beginning, middle, or end of their contracted residency) must overlap with a selected seasonal Research Intensive week. This open call is programming for intensives on the following dates in 2025:
- Dwell Here: Spring Research Intensive / Wednesday 05 – Tuesday 11 Feb 2025
- Dwell Here: Summer Research Intensive / Wednesday 14 – Tuesday 20 May 2025
A one month residency includes a requirement to engage with the expanded community participating in each research intensive. Themes highlighted in the Dwell Here: Research Invitation will inform intensive planning. Studio engagements may surface as a workshop, a temporary exhibition, a reading group, a walking tour, an open studio, a talk, a site visit, a performance, or other studio related activities for the onsite community and invited guests. In addition to these potential activities it is anticipated that each Research Intensive will be informed by:
- Methods of presenting self-directed research and studio practice
- Discussions and studio visits with mentors, peers, and fellow Dwell Here residents
- Interaction with IMMA programming, staff, collections, archives, and site
- Off-site visits (local and further afield)
- Engagement with Ireland’s arts communities and infrastructures
- Informal knowledge exchange synonymous with the residency experience such as co-hospitality, co-working and a co-living environment
A one month residency offers participants deeper insights into the context of visual arts practices in Ireland, strengthening international connections and communities with the potential to prompt ideas for embedded projects such as public workshops, continued practice based research or even commissions which will be welcomed to emerge as proposals following the one month sited experience at IMMA
IMMA welcomes Expressions of Interest from artists and thinkers who are:
- Based in Ireland or internationally
- Committed to research excellence within their chosen discipline
One Month Residency Supports
- Free onsite accommodation (with your own bedroom and separate to studio)
- Access to an onsite IMMA studio (if required)
- Amenities such as electricity, heating, Wi-Fi, parking etc
- A weekly bursary of €250 for pre-agreed contracted weeks
- One return journey for residents living outside of Ireland
- IMMA’s residency is a self-catering facility, occasional hospitality is provided
- One month residencies will not be able to support accommodation for additional family members or partners
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Open Call | Commission for Cruinniú na nÓg 2025 from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
- Deadline: Monday, 23rd September 2024, 2pm
- Type: Funding/OpportunitiesÂ
- Award: €23,000 is the value of the commission. This will cover all fees, materials, and any production costs. This fee also needs to cover the costs of the experience/event taking place as part of Cruinniú na nÓg in June 2025.
- Download an Application: DLR COCO (submit.com)
From workshops to panel discussions, your event can play a key role in making this year’s Irish Design Week truly special. This year’s theme is Imagination for Opportunity. Funding is available for selected events that are looking to be part of the story.
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Open Call | Artist Books for Dublin Art Book Fair 2024
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- Deadline: Monday, 7th October 2024
- Type:Â OpportunitiesÂ
- Link to Application: https://www.templebargallery.com/content/files/Application-Form-Open-Call-Artist-Book-DABF24_240711_134833.docx
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the open call for artist books for inclusion in Dublin Art Book Fair 2024, guest curated by Adrian Duncan.
Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) is a centre for the contemporary artist book. In its fourteenth edition, DABF embraces arts practices, publishing and artist-run culture at the intersection of art, design, writing, contemporary culture and contemporary life.
The artist book section at Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) features books made by contemporary artists, designers, art writers and others, who experiment with the medium of the book and its potential for artistic expression. Each year, DABF hosts an impressive selection of exceptional artist books, both printed and hand-made editions. The artist books received in the open call display a versatility in which the book form becomes a space for creativity. The featured artist books are selected by our curatorial team through open call, and include artist books by invited artists.
Adrian Duncan is this year’s guest curator; his theme is Fictions: The makings of other worlds.
Dublin Art Book Fair 2024 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons, and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
How to Apply
Please download and read the application guidelines carefully before completing your application. Send your completed application to [email protected].
 APPLICATION FORM: https://www.templebargallery.com/content/files/Application-Form-Open-Call-Artist-Book-DABF24_240711_134833.docx
Image description: A selection of different artist books are laid out in stacks on a table. The display shows a range of printing styles and binding and folding techniques. The covers show a range of styles from bold and colourful hand-printed typography, digitally rendered illustrations, and foil stamped typeset.
Open Call | FSAS International Curator Residency Award 2025
- Deadline: Wednesday, 13th November
- Type: Funding/OpportunitiesÂ
- Award: Accommodation and a stipend (€300) to live, work and network in Dublin, for a duration of 3-4 weeks. Residencies are programmed to begin in late January/early February 2025.
- Download an Application: https://form.jotform.com/241505029459356
The FSAS International Curator Residencies programme provides contemporary international curators with accommodation and a stipend to live, work and network in Dublin, for a duration of 3-4 weeks. Residencies are programmed to begin in late January/early February 2025. FSAS will further develop the programme for return visits where appropriate in 2025.
Who is the residency for?
- Curators who are working independently or with institutions
- Curators who can spend time in Dublin for up to four weeks, and no less than three weeks
- Curators with a strong track record and over five years of experience in the field
- Curators developing curatorial research/practice relationships in Dublin/Ireland
About the Residency
Through this residency programme, FSAS provides the armature to build links/fosters collaborations between international artists, curators, art institutions & their Irish counterparts. This residency programme provides opportunities for international curators to:
- connect in person with the Irish visual art scene
- undertake research, studio visits and participate in Dublin & Ireland’s dynamic visual arts sector
- make connections, explore international exhibition opportunities with Irish artists, with introductions facilitated, where possible, by FSAS staff
As part of their residency, International Curators are asked to:
- give a short public talk in FSAS at the beginning of their stay to meet resident & non-resident practitioners from Dublin and beyond, to elaborate their practice
- take part in studio visits with FSAS artists and attend FSAS events coinciding with their stay
- to write a brief report for our own evaluation purposes at the end of their residency to help FSAS continue to refine our awarded residency programme
- to bring previous publications or exhibition ephemera relating to their recent work, and where possible, recommend active reading material of current interest for the FSAS library
Resources and Support
- Free accommodation in a live/work studio located in Dublin’s historic north inner-city centre. Studio images are here
- Successful applicants will receive a stipend of €300 to support their stay in FSAS
- Access to facilities: digital media resource, AV equipment, meeting room, reading area. Full list of facilities here
- International curators create their own timetable of studio visits with FSAS resident artists and other cultural practitioners to suit their own work patterns, which can be done in advance. Where needed or desired, FSAS can help, such as in introductions to artists, art institutions, curators, galleries in Dublin city and nationwide
How to Apply
An awareness of our residents and artistic programme is recommended when making an application.
The application includes:
- A statement about your practice and explaining why you are interested in this residency
- A CV (3 pages max)
- Documentation of work (one or two recent projects)
- 2 preferred timeframes to visit us during 2025 from end of January onwards
- a short bio (100 words max) and a captioned image (300dpi) to announce your residency if awarded
- Access requirements
Selection Criteria
Applications will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Professional curatorial practice
- Quality of work
- Curators developing curatorial research/practice relationships in Dublin/Ireland
- Expressed and perceived need for the award
- Willingness to engage with the FSAS Community
Click here to begin your application
If you have any queries, or difficulties accessing the application please email Julia Moustacchi at [email protected]
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Open Call | A4 Studio Memberships
- Deadline: N/A
- Type: Funding/ Opportunities
- Link to Application: https://a4sounds.org/join-us/
A4 Sounds is a non-profit artist-run workspace and gallery in north-inner-city Dublin. It is one of the biggest artist-led spaces in Ireland, currently providing facilities and professional development supports to 70 artists.
Our mission is to transform the means by which cultural works are produced, accessed, and understood in Ireland, and by doing so to contribute to the development of a more just society.
Guided by feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and LGBT-inclusive politics, A4 Sounds supports artists and activists who fight for change. What kinds of artists are we looking for: As a socially engaged organisation we have keen interest in applications from artists working in the following disciplines: Social Practice, Social Justice, Social Intervention, Socially Engaged, Dialogical, Participatory, Critical Thinking & Research, Activist, Political, Relational, Community, Collaborative Art or New Genre Public Art.
However, we do not expect all studio artists to work in this way and we welcome applications from artists working in a wide range of disciplines.
Applicants should be committed to the ongoing development of their practices.
Application process:
- Artists can apply via our application form on our website.
- We will review applications and invite selected artists to view the studio and an informal interview.
- New members will be selected based on their portfolio and available space within the studio.
From €75 per month for access to Shared Studio Space.
For more information and to apply click here: https://a4sounds.org/join-us/ Contact: [email protected]
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