Serendipity Arts Residency 2024
KEY INFORMATION
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FACILITIES
Writer-in-Residence
Selection Process
Scope
- The Writer-in-Residence will be required to chronicle the Residency through a podcast, regular blog posts, or other material that might drive public engagement with the Residency, between May and August. They are free to choose any format that might serve this purpose.
- They will be required to examine the projects conceived during the Residency through a critical lens, submit an essay on the same, along with all necessary exhibition texts for the Open Studio.
- In order to hone their writing practice, they may pitch their own creative project as long as it is in some dialogue with the works being produced by the Artists-in-Residence. The format for this remains open and flexible and might culminate in a small publication (fiction or non-fiction) or any other kind of intervention in the form of text.
- They will curate the outcome of the Residency for the Open Studio.
Eligibility
- The Writer-in-Residence should be an Indian national residing in India.
- The applicant must not be more than 35 years of age.
- The applicant must have at least 3 years of practical experience in art curation, practice, research, and/or critical writing in the field of arts and culture.
- The applicant must not have been part of a residency in the last one year.
Application Process
- An updated CV (not more than 3 pages long)
- Short bio (not more than 150 words)
- A writing sample of not more than 1500 words
- A Statement of Intent of not more than 500 words
Artists-in-Residence
Selection Process
Eligibility
- The Residency is open to Indian nationals residing in India.
- Applicants must not be more than 35 years of age at the time of submission.
Application Process
- An updated CV (not more than 3 pages long)
- Short bio (not more than 150 words)
- A Statement of Intent or Project Proposal (in not more than 500 words). This may explain why the applicant wishes to attend the Residency, what they would like to do while in residence, and how the experience is likely to contribute to their present practice and/or project.
- A short portfolio of the applicant’s creative practice. This may consist of:
- artwork
- videos, sound files (embedded as open links)
- photographs or other documentation of previous works
- a combination of the above where the total no. of items submitted is no more than five
Terms and Conditions
- Applicants must not be more then 35 years of age at the time of submission.
- The Residency is open only to Indian Citizens residing in the country at least over the past 2 years.
- Applicants must not have attended a residency in the past 1 year.
- Selected residents will be announced by May. Selections will be undertaken by an external panel of jury appointed by Serendipity Arts.
- Applications by immediate family members of Serendipity Arts employees will not be considered.
Timeline
Jury
Artists in Residence
Adheep did a Bachelor’s in chemical engineering from BITS, Goa, before doing a Master’s in Direction and Screenplay Writing from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He likes mixing various mediums and finding out what comes of them. Fascinated by science and arts alike, his interests take him to places that merge the two. As part of a 3-person collective, he got the ThinkArts Grant for Children in 2022. Moonless, a film he directed and animated, has competed at DokLeipzig and Dharamshala Intl. Film Festival, amongst others. His documentary Khaalti Kaay Varti Kaay competed at IDSSFK, Kerala.
Some of his work has been exhibited as part of the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale and the Wrong Biennale. He has also completed the Katkatha Puppetry Incubation Lab and has worked on a shadow puppetry production called ‘Zig Zags to Earth’ as a sound designer and performer, and has performed at venues such as Max Mueller Bhawan, Delhi, and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi.
sanghamitra (they/she) is a neuroqueer interdisciplinary artist. Their art is mostly self-reflexive and is a tool she uses to protest different levels of propaganda—the obvious kind, like centralised bigotry, or insidious, like what is allowed to be ‘good’ art.
She also uses her work to come to terms with her existence in relationship to macro- and microcosms, and is keen on extending their embodied experience of existing outside of gender and binary systems to the forms she uses— photography, videography, painting, performance, and text. Alienated away from their Bengali cultural context for most of their life, they believe in intervening in established cultural codes and iconography with their anomalous point of view, to reform them radically. They want to orient their future work towards fabulating a neuroqueer, non-brahminical, and post-anthropocentric future. They hope to soon pursue deeper artistic research in the form of a PhD.
Shesadev Sagria is an artist based in Odisha. He has a BFA in Printmaking from Govt. College of Art & Crafts, Khallikote, Odisha and an MFA in Printmaking from MS University Baroda. He is working towards understanding the evolving body and caste hierarchies from medical and ethnographical perspectives, analysing the occurrence of diseases and their connection with caste location, specific engagements within labour work and tools, and being exposed to environments within specific habitats. He proposes an alternative narrative by building new connections between the body, disease, habitat, tools, and caste, emphasising a unique evolution. Shesadev creates interactive spaces like dioramas and theatrical spaces by incorporating printmaking, sculpture, projection, performance, and text.
He was awarded the Inlaks Fine Art Award 2023, and his group exhibitions in India include ‘Imaginarium 3.0’ at Emami Art Kolkata; ‘Embark III’, an online show at Gallery Ark, Vadodara, (2020); and ‘Pushing Print’, curated by Dr Bess Frimodig at Artbuzz Studio (2019).
Born in 1996 Santiniketan, West Bengal, Urna earned an MVA from M.S University of Baroda (2018-20) and a BFA from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan (2014-2018). She has been part of an exchange programme at Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts Angers, France (2017). Urna has also participated at Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria, in August 2023.
She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Space Studio, Baroda and Cona Print Studio, Mumbai. Her work has been showcased as part of ‘Water’ at HH Art Spaces in Goa (October, 2023); the Alumni Show at Space Studio Baroda, (September, 2023); ‘Interim II’ at Apre Art House, Mumbai (June, 2023); ‘Embark IV/V’ at Ark Foundation, Baroda (April, 2023); the First Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial research exhibition series at Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (March 2021-May 2021); the Students’ Biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2021), ‘Voices from the Courtyard’, Baroda; and the Womanifesto Art Exchange (2020). Urna presently lives and works between Aldona, Goa and Santiniketan, West Bengal.