Centro Rural de Arte
Santiago del Estero 695
1075 Buenos Aires
Argentina
- Duration: March 5 - 21
- Discipline: Dance, Film, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Theatre, Visual Arts
- Targetgroup: International
Description
CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE is a non-profit civil association that aims to generate artistic projects in relation to rural environments. It organizes residencies, workshops, and joint projects with other organizations.
According to the characteristics of each project, they approach a particular way to record and spread the activities. They pay attention to the circulation of contents and experiences of each work. The work in each of its formats (residencies, workshops, etc) is based on the construction of interdisciplinary operative platforms (artists, local people, workers from different areas), including local and foreign creators in order to foster open views to a certain socio-geographic area.
The general objective of CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE is the search of possible territories to develop contemporary art, approaching experiences from a multiplicity of languages, where limits between creative processes and products, and art producers vs. art receptors can be put at stake.
NATIVO Y FORÁNEO - Call for Applications.
5 th thru 21st March, 2011
INDIGENOUS AND ALIEN Artist in Residence Program is organized by CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE in the framework of its nomad and eventual activities. It will take place in Los Alerces National Park (Patagonia) and it is willing to work on a particular topic. Within a public protected area, the topic INDIGENOUS AND ALIEN can be associated to the preservation of flora and fauna, migration, identity or cultural diversity. The call is open to artists from different disciplines and backgrounds: drama and performing arts, fine arts and visual arts (photography, video, and films), literature, music and sound developments, landscape creation, etc. Individual artists and groups are welcome.
During the stay, each artist organizes their schedule following the realization of specific tasks for the National Park, the artist's own creative project and daily exchange with the rest of the residents. The last two days of the event, there will be an open presentation to the public. Artists are expected to approach a collective exhibition as well as a personal project. At the same time, a documentary will be developed on the experience.
Technical Information
The CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE organizes temporary residences in different physical spaces for each occasion. Each suggestion is particular every time and proposes a specific interchange with a rural productive activity.
Studio Information
Outdoors and covered studios. Each residence proposes different spaces. In all the opportunities the comfort for the work and the close contact with the nature is privileged.
Accommodation Information
Lodging in shared rooms of 4 people.
Paid by artist
Fee for the current open call:
Argentinian Residents: 1480$ (Pesos Argentinos).
Foreign Residents: US$ 380+ US$ 32 (Western Union fee).
This fee includes accommodation, meals, the documentary, transfers and life insurance with coverage within Los Alerces National Park during the residence. Health insurance depends on the participants.
Location
Los Alerces National Park is a protected area of 263,000 hectares next to Cordillera de los Andes, in Chubut, Argentina. It was created in 1937 in order to protect lahuán or alerce woods (larch), typical trees of the Patagonia-Andes region.
Villa Futalaufquen, a place developed by the National Parks Goverment, is settled there. It counts on several houses, a school, state buildings, gardens and services. It is the only urbanization within the area with 50 houses and 200 people, mostly employed at the Park. There are also military staff, and teachers. The Villa was created between the late 40's and early 50's.
The first dwellers in the region came 3,000 years ago and settled in the valley of Desaguadero river. They were hunter-gatherers, descendents of Tehuelches and Araucanas people, who were forced to modified their lives when the Spanish conquerors arrived.
Due to the so called "Campaña al Desierto" (1879-1883. Desert Campaign)- the genocide of the indigenous people in Argentina by General Roca- they were all desarticulated.
Currently, mapuche families live around the National Park.
When the Park was created in 1937 there were over a hundred families who were allowed to remain in the region (among them: Argentine, Chileans, Europeans and some indigenous people).
Deadline
August 2
Application address
Santiago del Estero 695
1075 Buenos Aires
Argentina
Telephone (+ 54) 11 4826 7459
Telephone (+ 54) 11 43834103
E-mail
info@centroruraldearte.org.ar
www.centroruraldearte.org.ar
