CAC × China Residencies | Open Call for Digital Diasporas

Online Residency -- Digital Diasporas

Open Call

Title: Digital DiasporasCall Type: Online residency with an awarded stipend of AUD $10,000

Application Deadline: Midnight (in the time zone of the applicant), Thursday, July 15, 2021

Notification of Selection: Finalists will be notified no later than September 15th, 2021 and the selected residents will be announced around late September.

Residency Start Date: Mid-October to mid- December, 2021

More info & Application form: https://chinaresidencies.com/news/335

Hosts: Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney, Australia), Gendai (Toronto, Canada)

Initiated by China Residencies

Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, administered by the Australian Embassy, Beijing.

<About Digital Diasporas>

Chronus Art Center (CAC) is glad to join the online residency program Digital Diasporas as one of the host organizations.

Building person to person connections across borders is more important than ever. In the open call of Digital Diasporas, we want to hear from artists, collectives, and curators who self-identify and find it useful to gather under a "Chinese and Chinese diaspora" cohort. This is a time for research, exploration and learning. We are looking for openness to collective, intercultural and cross-border development and research.

The online residency Digital Diasporas is initiated by China Residencies and co-host by Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney, Australia), Gendai (Toronto, Canada). Each resident or collective will primarily work with one host organization in Canada, Australia, or China and all residents as a cohort will be in dialogue with one another through convenings. Each host organisation will design a program of remote/online mentoring, networking, research and development for the resident they host.

Digital Diasporas welcomes experimental, digital, and/or research-based practices. As one of the host organizations, we want to take this opportunity to support writers and translators. Also, as a non-profit institute dedicated to the media art presentation, research and creation, CAC is especially interested in ideas exploring diasporic cultures and spaces, flows of labour, goods and capital, alternative community and kin-making, digital cultures, media arts, philosophies of technology and place-making and any intersections of these. The outcome of this research-oriented program will be a publication that peers into the impending post-human reality and respond to the current challenges or opportunities that contemporary digital society has/would induce(d).

Digital Diasporas will host:

• one person or collective who self-identifies as Chinese diaspora in or from Australia (citizen or permanent resident)

• one person or collective who self-identifies as Chinese diaspora in or from Canada (citizen or permanent resident)

• one person or collective who self-identifies as Chinese, regardless of what passport they hold or where they reside

While all disciplines of creative practice are eligible, this opportunity is most suitable for artists/collectives/curators who are comfortable working online. Applicants should be comfortable communicating in English. Chronus Arts Center can also work with applicants in Mandarin Chinese.

<How to Apply>

Please fill out the online application via https://chinares.wufoo.com/forms/sfoykda1xwln3h/

More info https://chinaresidencies.com/news/335

<Residency Host Organizations>

Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China): Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented programs, lectures and workshops and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

During the residency, when a condition of continuous health emergency and accelerating social economic conflicts permeate the world, CAC expects to engage with a research-oriented program whose outcome will be a publication that peer into the impending post-human reality and respond to the current challenges or opportunities that contemporary digital society has/would induce(d).

(http://www.chronusartcenter.org/)

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney, Australia): 4A fosters excellence and innovation in contemporary culture through the commissioning, presentation, documentation and research of contemporary art. Our program is presented throughout Australia and Asia, where we ensure that contemporary art plays a central role in understanding and developing the dynamic relationship between Australia and the wider Asian region.

During the residency, if desired, the resident will be able to participate in 4A's ceramic, digital media, and experimental performance exhibitions and programming.

(http://www.4a.com.au/)

Gendai (Toronto, Canada): Gendai's activities are focused on investing in racialized arts practitioners as the next generation of cultural leaders, radical thinkers & visionaries who embody new pathways towards more equitable futures. Gendai has general interest in research around issues of decolonization, collective values, working/labour conditions, alternative governance, and radical allyship. We formed Gendai MA MBA, a think tank for racialized collectives to reimagine institutional practice.

During the residency, if desired, the resident will be able to participate in Gendai CO-OP, a cross-institutional co-learning space and accountability program that addresses racial equity in the cultural sector by centering on the perspectives of BIPOC artists and arts workers.

(www.gendai.club)