MAK-Schindler Stipendiat*innenprogramm 2023/2024, MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in den Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles

PREAMBLE
MAK Schindler Initiative, Los Angeles

The involvement of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art with Rudolph M. Schindler’s work began with one of the first exhibitions held at the new MAK in 1986 entitled R. M. Schindler, Architect, 1887−1953, which was the first time his oeuvre was shown in Austria. This important exhibition revealed how little known this Austrian architect’s buildings were not only in his home country but internationally as well. When in winter 1991 the MAK explored what was left of Schindler's buildings in and around Los Angeles, it quickly became obvious that the situation had changed very little in the meantime. Retracing Schindler's steps led to La Jolla, to the Pueblo Ribera built in 1923/1925 and now heavily damaged, which was in the way of the developers, to his abandoned Kings Road House, which had once been the architect’s home and studio, to Silver Lake, where some of his “most elegant” villas can still be seen, and to Newport Beach, where the icon of the Lovell Beach House has been altered by later additions. The encounter with R. M. Schindler in L.A. turned more and more into a “commitment” towards the voluntary exile and, thus, into an opportunity for Austria, the country that had lost and exiled thousands of people. This was the starting point for the idea of an initiative that would not only encourage the preservation of R. M.
Schindler’s buildings but—and perhaps even more importantly—also continue his vision in order to promote and influence today’s art and architecture.

In 1994 the MAK Center for Art and Architecture was founded and its main activities in the first few years were the cooperation with Friends of the Schindler House (FOSH, August 1994), the purchase of the Mackey Apartments (June 1995), the inauguration of the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program (October 1995), the completion of the first stage of the renovation of Schindler House and its opening as a house museum (December 1995), the beginning of activities at the MAK Center (April 1996), and the restoration of the Mackey Apartments (2000).

Innovations in art and architecture, new trends, and interdisciplinary developments that follow spatial structures and conceptual and experimental approaches are the focus of the international connections between Vienna and Los Angeles, which have been realized at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture since 1994. In addition to exhibitions, MAK talks, symposia, and lectures held at Schindler House, the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at Schindler's Mackey Apartments is an important part of these activities. The main focus of the Scholarship Program is on the purposeful longterm support of individual young artists and architects / students of architecture and on creating new interdisciplinary opportunities and confrontations through a lively exchange program.

The clear orientation towards experimentation at the borderline of art and architecture is at the center of the program. Due to its purposeful and practiceoriented structure (involvement in organizing the programs at Schindler House, cooperation with universities, artists and architects, and exhibition activities) the Scholarship Program provides an opportunity for a broad discourse with topical questions of art and architecture.

INFORMATION AND COMPETITION CRITERIA

Application deadline:
16 August 2022 CET (Vienna) Postmark; please do not send anything by registered mail. No submission at the MAK Porter’s Lodge. Please note that applications by e-mail and data transfer are
not possible.

Applications are to be sent to the following address:
MAK Schindler Scholarship Program
Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna
Austria

Contact: Bärbel Vischer (Coordinator of the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program)
T +43 1 711 36-246, F +43 1 711 36-252
baerbel.vischer@MAK.at

Awarding of Scholarships:
The decision will be made by an international jury.

All applicants will be notified in writing of the jury's decision.

The application material submitted can be collected at the MAK after the jury’s meeting only by appointment or will be returned by mail.

Applicants should include no documents or originals indispensable to them since the material will be required at the MAK until approximately two months after the jury meeting. The MAK will not be liable for any damages or losses.

Application Criteria:

• freelance artist or
• fine arts or architecture students at a university (who have completed the “2. Studienabschnitt”) or
• architects or artists who have just graduated

The scholarship is also open to teams (of up to 3 persons). All members of the team have to be present in L.A. for six months. Teams have to name a contact
responsible for its members.
As the scholarship is aimed at providing the prerequisites for the realization of certain projects, the Mackey Apartments will only be made available to the scholarship holders; family members (spouse, partner, children), relatives, and friends can only be accommodated for the limited period of two weeks during the duration of the scholarship. The visits have to be permitted beforehand by Jia Yi Gu, Director MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.

Eligibility for a MAK Schindler scholarship is excluded if the applicant has been granted or will be granted another scholarship in the USA immediately before or after the MAK scholarship or if the data form is incomplete or additional material required for the application is lacking.

The scholarship:
The scholarship amounts to six monthly rates of 1,400 US dollars in total and includes the holder’s travel expenses for one round-trip flight ticket of 1,300 US dollars at the most, which is also the amount granted in the case of teams. The flights are booked by the scholarship holders; the costs will be refunded upon arrival by the MAK Center. It is important to ensure that arrival and departure take place on the start and end dates of the respective scholarship. All extra costs (health insurance for abroad, incidental accommodation expenses, phone, local fares, etc.) have to be paid from the scholarship. An apartment in the Mackey Apartments will be available for each Artist or Architect-in-Residence respectively the team.

Duration and Time of Residency:

Gruppe LIII: 4 April 2023 – 19 September 2023 (2 artists, 1 architect)
Gruppe LIV: 3. Oktober 2023 – 19. März 2024 (2 artists, 1 architect)

Addresses:
Mackey Apartments
1137 South Cochran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019, USA

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Schindler House

835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA
T +1 323 651 1510, F +1 323 651 2340
office@MAKcenter.org, MAKcenter.org

MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna
Austria
T +43 1 711 36-246, F +43 1 711 36-252
baerbel.vischer@MAK.at, MAK.at

APPLICATION MATERIALS

Applications for the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program must include the following:

General information, exclusively in the English language (to be filled in on the online form: http://www.mak.at/schindler_scholarship)

- contact data: name, address, phone and cell phone numbers, e-mail address;
- nationality;
- for organizational reasons, in the case of team applications, a responsible contact’s name and address must be given;
- precise data relating to the applicant’s date and place of birth, studies, school/university, professor, date of diploma, individual and group exhibitions,
scholarships, prizes;
- for fine arts applications: designation of the artistic media
- a project description which includes precisely formulated considerations, work approaches and strategies in connection with the applicant’s projected stay in Los Angeles;
- a short definition of the applicant’s artistic objectives.

In addition to the completed online data form, the following materials
are to be submitted by mail or personal submission at the MAK Porter's
Lodge. Please do not send anything by registered mail:
– a dossier (bound, 15 pages maximum, in English) of the applicant’s realized or
projected works which deal innovatively with the following issues:
o space (also urban space, living space, social space),
o the interface of art and architecture or
o experimental spatial approaches in the form of objects, installations, video
works, films, texts, and new media projects.
Please understand that we cannot accept unbound pages.

As additional documentation, the application should include up to 3 catalogs or up to 3 examples of films, videos, or new media material (no originals).
We ask you to select, for your dossier, a representative selection of your projects that conveys an impression of your distinctive approach. The material submitted

should be no larger than A3 format and should weigh no more than 1 kilogram; videos and films on a data stick in H.264/MPEG-4

The intensive concern with architecture and issues of space is to be the subject of a critical reflection, which involves artistic, architectural, and socially relevant tasks and functions. What is of importance is the critical look at architecture and art as an aesthetic language that structures the present, as a medium of political and economic representation, as an expression of individuality and a part of social life. The focus is on the interaction of different media and strategies − built spaces and spatial installations, painting, video, models, sculptures, urban research, and projects in the public space.

What is important for assessing the L.A. project is a high degree of independence in form and content; the ability to critically examine current trends in art, architecture, and society; the compelling connection with Los Angeles as the place of implementing or continuing the applicant's own work as well as a conceptual and experimental approach.

Additional requirements:
– The results of the projects have to be presented in an exhibition; the exhibition, which will last one or several days, must comply with the possibilities of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Participants in the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program may organize complementary events that serve as a presentation and discussion forum focusing on their work in progress.
– A regular cooperation at the MAK Center in the development and implementation of programs and the occasional assistance with exhibitions and events are expected.

Data Protection:
In submitting your documents, you agree to all personal data provided by you being processed by the MAK for the implementation and organization of the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program. With the exception of the jury members, your data will not be transmitted to a third party.
Should your application be unsuccessful, the documents submitted by you will be returned to you and all associated data deleted after a lapse of four months. Should you be selected for the MAK Schindler Scholarship Program, your data and documents will be passed on to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, and in the public interest permanently stored for archiving purposes both in the MAK and in the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles. In addition, your photograph and name will be published on the homepage of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.

MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, LOS ANGELES

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, established in 1994 in Los Angeles, is based today in three of the most important houses by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Since his emigration to the USA in 1914, the experimental Vienna-based visionary has given direction to a modern architectural