We’re inviting applications from emerging and mid-career artists who are interested in interdisciplinary practice and paradigm-shifting collaboration. The focus of this project is to extend networks beyond geographical boundaries through sharing of resources, artist-led pedagogy, peer exchange, research, and engagement designed to enrich the artistic process and enable the potential for new projects to be seeded.
Grant Amount: $3000 AUD
Digital lab dates: June – September 2021 (wholly online)
Applications close: 26 March 2021,11:59pm AEDT
Notification: 18 April 2021
Transmitter is an international digital lab conducted by Serendipity Arts Foundation (India) and Darwin Festival (Australia), supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. The provocation is to interrogate the relationship between technology and the body and how this relationship might become a creative catalyst for performance in both virtual and physical spaces. Our engagement with the arts has shifted radically in the last year and opened up opportunities beyond the physical space of art-making, to use technology to interpret one’s practice and examine how we adapt ourselves in this hybrid space. We’re interested in investigating how artistic process and spatial relationships are informed by technology.
We’re inviting applications from emerging and mid-career artists who are interested in interdisciplinary practice and paradigm-shifting collaboration. The focus of this project is to extend networks beyond geographical boundaries through sharing of resources, artist-led pedagogy, peer exchange, research and engagement designed to enrich the artistic process and enable the potential for new projects to be seeded.
The program involves a 2.5 day online intensive in June featuring guest artists and presenters from both countries, followed by two artist-led sessions in July facilitated by the program curators where new project concepts will be workshopped, with the intention that these ideas be further developed for pitching in Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) and potential presentation in 2022 either at Darwin Festival and/or Serendipity Arts Festival.
The intended outcomes for the program are:
The Australia Council for the Arts will fund 4 successful artists $3000 AUD each, and support 2 applicants from India and 2 applicants from Australia (with one position identified for a Northern Territory based artist).
Who is this program for?
This program designed for artists who are:
Outcomes
This lab will be focussed on process-based learning and collaboration. Participants will be asked to develop a proposal for a new work during the course of the program, which they will be able to pitch to presenters during APAM, Darwin Festival and Serendipity Arts Festival.
Assessment Criteria
Applications will be assessed based on the responses to the following questions (250 words max):
Support material
To be uploaded along with your written application.
Assessment process
Australia Council staff in consultation with Darwin Festival and Serendipity Arts Festival will consider applications according to the assessment criteria above.
Serendipity Arts Festival
Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) is one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts initiatives in the South Asian region. It spans the visual, performing and culinary arts, whilst exploring genres with film, live arts, literature and fashion. Besides the core content, which is conceptualized by an eminent curatorial panel, the Festival has various layers of programming, in the form of educational initiatives, workshops, special projects, and institutional engagements.
Erica McCalman
Erica McCalman is a creative producer, curator and consultant of Ballardong (Noongar), Irish convict, Scottish and Cornish heritage. With her independent project (Art Oracle) Erica has taught and mentored for YIRRAMBOI and Melbourne Fringe festivals as well as consulted for major arts institutions, independent artists and government agencies. Through Art Oracle Erica seeks to find new ways of working as a producer, developing healthy collaboration methods between artist and institution and nurturing the next generation of artists and producers.
Serendipity Arts Foundation
Nitya Iyer
Email: nitya@serendipityarts.org
Australia Council for the Arts
Nithya Nagarajan,
Email: n.nagarajan@australiacouncil.gov.au
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