{"id":31434,"date":"2021-09-13T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&p=31434"},"modified":"2021-09-21T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:04:39","slug":"call-for-fellowships-under-utopia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/call-for-fellowships-under-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for fellowships \u00bbUnder Utopia\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31432,"template":"","news_type":[488,664],"class_list":["post-31434","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-academy","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

A praxis in beginning to stop resisting to begin by carrying on as before<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n<\/em>\u00bbUtopias are stories one is allowed to reside in. Absent of boundaries, structures and law. Always a step ahead of reality. Utopias create blank spaces asking to be occupied. By our wishes, dreams and hopes. Allowing movement in endless directions. Small utopias for a complex everyday. Every one of us becomes important.\u00ab<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"CONTEXT<\/span>\r\n\r\nStates of crisis are the signature of our times \u2013 expanding fatigue and exhaustion symptomatic conditions of our societies. Solutions only appear viable when they happen to be in line with paradigms of perpetuation of wealth and economic growth.\r\nHow do we escape the misery of a present that redundantly poses the same questions, that dictates the same ideas and solutions over and over again? Utopias, and this connects them with the arts, offer a much-needed corrective to the present, building new grounds to renegotiate what new social and democratic structures could look like.\r\nAs a form of indicator, they expose how individual and collective expectations are constituted regarding ideas around what a successful life on earth means to us. They comprehend our common world as \u00bbunder construction\u00ab \u2013 an open and extended space of possibilities, where new realities can be imagined.\r\n\r\n\u00bbUnder Utopia\u00ab sees itself as a plea for collective take-off and worldings. A path towards the uncertain, outside the realms of prognosis and predictability. A process, not only creating new imaginaries but fueling our desire to critically inquire our surroundings, searching for meaningful ways to contribute to a better future. Not under exclusion of the public but on a democratic basis, together with any social agent who is affected by the future and has therefore a right to participate in shaping it. Opening up a space to express our wishes, hopes and desires, fundamentally question our modes of existence but also mirror back to us responsibilities we implicitly carry for our shared environment. As a way to connect in unusual ways, cooperatively recalibrating visions and ideas for peaceful coexistence in the here and now. How can we start to walk this journey into the unknown together?"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"ORIENTATION<\/span>\r\n\r\nWithin the framework of \u00bbUnder Utopia\u00ab three four-month fellowship grants will be awarded for a residency starting November 2021 until the end of February 2022. The call is directed towards artists, activists, and thinkers from all disciplines who locate their practice within the thematic context of the project and who consider a lively exchange with different social actors, institutions and disciplines an integral part of their work. During their stay at Akademie Schloss Solitude fellows will be granted space to freely engage \u2013 either experimentally, speculatively, or collaboratively depending on their own artistic, activist or theoretical position \u2013 with the question of how we could give things a direction that is orientated around our own wishes and desires rather than the pragmatism dominating current state of affairs. Which actors of other social realms could be possible collaborators with whom this direction could be developed and shared? Which places and spaces could be used to try out this direction in a way that is free of anxiety?"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-lila","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"REQUIREMENTS<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u2022 Individuals of all ages as well as collectives may apply for a fellowship\r\n\u2022 Prior to the fellowship there is minimum one-day mandatory orientation as well as a first meeting with the artist-duo Geers\/Drescher and Akademie Schloss Solitude\r\n\u2022 Good language skills in English or German are beneficial\r\n\r\nBENEFITS<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u2022 The funding period amounts to a maximum of four months\r\n\u2022 A monthly stipend of 1,200 euros (plus one-time expenses incurred by the fellowship holder traveling to and from Stuttgart from their primary residence)\r\n\u2022 If applicable, a project-related budget\r\n\u2022 A combined apartment studio, furnished with electricity, water, and heat free of charge\r\n\u2022 For the duration of the residency respective fellows will be mentored by the artist-duo Geers\/Drescher and Akademie Schloss Solitude"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-blue","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe application material is submitted online and should include:\r\n\r\n\u2022 An idea, question, or project outline that deals with the topic \u00bbUnder Utopia\u00ab referencing social agents and environments which you want to develop your project with. These could be business or corporate environments, scientific institutions, as well as social and political organizations (max. 1 Din A4 page)\r\n\u2022 A description of your motivation (max. 1 Din A4 page)\r\n\u2022 A short biography and informative portfolio or documentation of previous artistic, activist or theoretic work\r\n\r\nAll documents should be sent in PDF format via e-mail to:<\/strong>\r\nwimmelforschung@akademie-solitude.de<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe next fellowships will be awarded for the period of November 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe deadline for applications is October 3, 2021, 24:00 CET\/MEZ, midnight CET\/MEZ.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe jury, consisting of Maren Geers, Thomas Drescher and Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff (coordinator art, science & business), will choose three suitable candidates from all applications. The final decision of selection will be made after a personal meeting and conversation on the respective project proposal with Maren Geers, Thomas Drescher and Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff. For further inquiries, please contact: wimmelforschung@akademie-solitude.de\r\n\r\nThe project is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden- W\u00fcrttemberg."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_sponsors","sponsors":[{"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_link":"","sponsor_img":21931}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=31434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}