{"id":31794,"date":"2021-11-16T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31794"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:40:12","slug":"namibia-call-2022","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/namibia-call-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Call 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31788,"template":"","news_type":[488,664],"class_list":["post-31794","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":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Akademie Schloss Solitude has established a new residency program that will be committed to a long-term artistic and cultural exchange between Namibia and Germany. The program promotes Namibian artists, to integrate them into new artistic networks and to make their work visible to a wider German and international audience.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn the year of 2022, the program will organize three four-months residency fellowships for artists, writers\/journalists, and practitioners from the digital field, from Namibia. The fellowship program will encompass events such as readings, exhibitions, discussions, and workshops as a form of output for audiences both in Namibia and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany.\r\n\r\nThe residencies are organized in the framework of a two-part workshop series curated by Namibian artist and historian Memory Biwa, which initiates a collective approach to the history of colonial relations between Namibia and Germany and develops new artistic narratives on this topic.\r\n\r\nArtists from the field of <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">visual arts<\/span> (production and mediation), <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">literature\/journalism<\/span>, and <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">digital practice<\/span> with a specific interest in the areas of<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\"> restitution\/reparation, cultures of remembrance<\/span>, and <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">digital colonialism<\/span> are welcome to <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">apply until December 19, 2021<\/span>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h5><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">BENEFITS <\/span><\/h5>\r\nThe fellowship includes the following benefits:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>A free, furnished living\/working studio including electricity, water and heating,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A monthly fellowship grant of \u20ac 1,200,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Travel expenses for arrival and departure (on a one-time basis),<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Project funding and one-off materials subsidy,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Health insurance.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h5><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">\r\nAPPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE<\/span><\/h5>\r\nThe application material is submitted online and should include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>A project outline that deals with the topics of restitution\/reparation, cultures of remembrance, or digital colonialism in an artistic way (max. 1 Din A4 page),<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A short biography and informative portfolio or documentation of previous artistic work.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAll documents can be sent in PDF format via e-mail to:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:s.thieroff@akademie-solitude.de\">s.thieroff@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe fellowship will be awarded for the <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">period of May 1 to August 31, 2022<\/span>.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">The final date for applications is December 19, 2021.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe choice of artists will be made by two independent jury members.\r\n\r\nFor further inquiries, please contact: Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff,<a href=\"mailto:s.thieroff@akademie-solitude.de\"> s.thieroff@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe residency program is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg as part of the Namibia initiative of the state of 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\/31794","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\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=31794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}