Open Call Artist-In-Residence in the Salettl at the community farmstead “Kleine Stadt Farm”

Due date: 20. February 2023
Who: International and Austrian artists
Categories: visual arts / literature / dance / performance / illustration ...
Duration: May 28 - June 25, 2023
Scholarship: € 1.700,- and combined studio and living space

In recent years the community farm project of the Kleine Stadt Farm in Vienna’s Donaustadt has been activated and presented to a wider public as a new social center in the 22nd district. Since 2012 numerous civil society initiatives have come together, which deal with questions of community made agriculture and sustainable nutrition, with the participatory design of our living space, with animal- assisted pedagogy as well as with artistic, artisanal and social approaches for sustainable development.
Today, the "Kleine Stadt Farm – Verein zur Förderung des Gemeinwohls" is an association of about 20 ecological and social organizations and cultural workers, in which about 500 people are participating. The community farm is jointly managed, played on and cultivated – with great commitment on a voluntary basis. The offer and the previous activities are designed and implemented on a low-threshold level.
 
Artist-in-Residence
The Salettl Residency Program will take place for the second time in 2023 and aims to offer artists the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the community of the Kleine Stadt Farm and the surrounding nature in order to develop a project on site. Both during and towards the end of the residency, there is the opportunity to present the artistic process and results and to engage in exchange with the local people.

The program is aimed at professional artists whose work demonstrates an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach and addresses issues of social and environmental sustainability. The thematic focus of the residency is to tie in with "Utopia" - the annual theme of cultural activities in the district of Vienna-Donaustadt. We invite the artist to work on this main topic from different perspectives and to realize it artistically.

The costs for travel, materials and meals have to be paid by the artists themselves.

The application is open to all interested artists regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or religious affiliation. Families are explicitly invited to apply. Children are welcome at the Kleine Stadt Farm.

Application process
Applications will be accepted by email only.
The deadline for applications is February 20, 2023.

Applications must include the following:
​Contact information (name, address, email address, phone number, website/social media if applicable).
Meaningful portfolio (PDF)
Curriculum vitae (1 page)
Motivation and description of the project to be implemented during the residency incl. ideas for the presentation (1 page)
 
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the call in early March.
 
Selection criteria
Relation to the theme "Utopia"
Reference to the community farm project Kleine Stadt Farm in Vienna, Donaustadt
Comprehensible presentation of the ideas for the presentation of the project
Artistic quality

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