" BAiR 2025 | Trigger Witness Residency "
BAiR 2025 | Trigger Witness Residency
BAiR Residency to explore the influence of emotional triggers in culture
G99 and BAiR (Brno Artist in Residence) announce an open call for residencies focused on exploring emotional triggers. Based on this open call, three residencies will take place, spread over the dates 1 March-30 April 2025 and 15 May-15 July 2025.
An emotional trigger is a stimulus that suddenly triggers a strong emotional memory of a past experience and is often used as a tool for manipulation in commercial and political marketing or perceived as an undesirable effect that we try to avoid (trigger warnings). However, in the context of contemporary art and social discourse, it can point to deeper truths about the context of our lived presence.
This year-long theme follows up on research from 2024 that explored addictions and exit strategies under the tagline "Your Addiction Is the Message," a reinterpretation of Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase "The Medium is the Message." In 2025, the focus is not only on the ways in which triggers affect people on both a personal and collective level, but also how they can guide them towards uncovering some of the more subtle agencies in our society.
The residency is looking for artists and curators who want to focus on the influence of emotional triggers on our culture and their potential to reflect on our society in 2025.
- a short description of the project or a motivation letter related to the topic Trigger Witness (max. 1 A4 page of text), please specify the preferred date of your stay
- portfolio (PDF/max 10 MB or website link) and CV
For video files, please provide links to your own website or video sharing platforms such as Vimeo, YouTube, etc. Please do not send links to downloadable video files.
Applications are accepted in Czech, English and Slovak by email only until 20 October 2024.
Please send applications with the subject line "Open Call BAiR 2025" to: brnoartistsinresidence@gmail.com
An emotional trigger is a stimulus that suddenly triggers a strong emotional memory of a past experience and is often used as a tool for manipulation in commercial and political marketing or perceived as an undesirable effect that we try to avoid (trigger warnings). However, in the context of contemporary art and social discourse, it can point to deeper truths about the context of our lived presence.
This year-long theme follows up on research from 2024 that explored addictions and exit strategies under the tagline "Your Addiction Is the Message," a reinterpretation of Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase "The Medium is the Message." In 2025, the focus is not only on the ways in which triggers affect people on both a personal and collective level, but also how they can guide them towards uncovering some of the more subtle agencies in our society.
The residency is looking for artists and curators who want to focus on the influence of emotional triggers on our culture and their potential to reflect on our society in 2025.
INFO
AMOUNT
artistic scholarship: 40 000 CZK (20 000 CZK/month), approximately 1,580 EUR
APPLICATION DEADLINE
October 20, 2024
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine
ELIGIBILITY
Open to all researchers in the field of contemporary art (visual artists, theoreticians or curators) of any nationality, gender and age.
APPLICATION DETAILS
HOW TO APPLY- a short description of the project or a motivation letter related to the topic Trigger Witness (max. 1 A4 page of text), please specify the preferred date of your stay
- portfolio (PDF/max 10 MB or website link) and CV
For video files, please provide links to your own website or video sharing platforms such as Vimeo, YouTube, etc. Please do not send links to downloadable video files.
Applications are accepted in Czech, English and Slovak by email only until 20 October 2024.
Please send applications with the subject line "Open Call BAiR 2025" to: brnoartistsinresidence@gmail.com
DEADLINE
2024-10-20
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
Czech Republic
WEBSITE
CONTACT
For any questions: kadlcak@dum-umeni.cz or langer@dum-umeni.cz.
KEYWORDS
Audio-visual arts - Curatorial and cross-disciplinary work - Digital arts and new media - Visual arts - Trandisciplinary art practices - Digital arts - Interdisciplinary art practices