Open Call | Earth Water Sky Residency at Science Gallery Venice
Application deadline: 7 January 2019, 5:00pm.
Earth Water Sky is Science Gallery Venice’s 3-year residency programme for artists interested in the environment and the latest in cutting edge environmental knowledge. Every year there will be an open call for artists from any art form – digital arts, painting, sculpture, dance, performance, music, multimedia, video, film, photography, writing, drawing – to apply for a 2 month fully funded residency in Venice. The winning artist/s will work with leading scientists from Ca’ Foscari University and the Veneto region.
In the first year of the competition, the winning artist will be working with Professor Carlo Barbante and his team at Ca’ Foscari who work on the international Ice Memory project. This extraordinary scientific endeavour is building a library of ice from non-polar regions which will be stored in Antarctica comprised of ice cores drilled from endangered glaciers all around the world. From the ice cores and the air bubbles trapped in the ice which can be dated in some instances as far back as 18,000 BCE, scientists can reconstruct the Earth’s past climate and atmospheric composition. It is an invaluable record of climate change.
Next year, the Ice Memory project goes to several destinations for expeditions and field trips for their research. Amongst several destinations, the major expedition will be to Mount Kilimanjaro’s glaciers which is the last ice left in the African continent. Other destinations are e.g. field trips to the Alps.
Science Gallery Venice are looking for an artist who is truly inspired by the Ice Memory project and can create imaginative, extraordinary new work which captures the public’s attention and their senses, minds and hearts.
Budget:
The artist has a set fee for two months of 5000 Euros per month. In addition, all travel, accommodation and subsistence are covered for that period on a fixed budget, except for joining a field trip.
At the end of the residency, the artist will be invited to bid for a 26,000 Euro production budget to make an art work inspired by the Ice Memory project and interactions with the scientists. This final work and the results will be exhibited at Science Gallery Venice and potentially elsewhere. As well as the Ice Memory team, the artist will work closely with the initiator of the project, the Producer and Curator Ariane Koek who was the founder of the Arts at Cern programme and was Science Gallery Venice’s first director.
For more information see: opencall.sciencegallery.com/earth-water-sky
Open Call | Earth Water Sky Residency at Science Gallery Venice
