Apply: Connect South Africa Residency Programme

Deadline: 26 May, 2021

Connect South Africa by CERN, in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, has opened applications for a dual residency programme.

The programme offers support to one Swiss artist and one artist from Southern, East or West Africa.

The two selected artists will participate in a dual residency at CERN, in Geneva, and in the array of astronomy observatories in South Africa – in connection with the South African Radio Astronomy (SARAO), and the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).

Benefits

  • Production stipend of CHF6,000/U.S.$6,500
  • Living expenses in Switzerland and South Africa
  • International travel costs and local travel, when required, and accommodation at CERN, Geneva, and across various locations in South Africa

Eligibility

  • Artists interested in the cultural significance of scientific research and technology
  • Artists interested in extending their connection with the field of physics and sciences of the universe, and to enter in dialogue with scientists and engineers, and staff at CERN, and scientists of the observatories of SARAO and SAAO in South Africa
  • Artists pushing the traditional forms of dialogue with other fields of research, and keen to ask innovative questions across disciplines
  • Artists interested in the scientific community and the interaction with its social fabric and its history and narratives
  • Artists whose work and proposal aims to reflect on new models of social enquiry, the potential synergies between art and science, and to offer challenging methods of exchange and enquiry
  • Artists with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and flexibly across different social-cultural and institutional worlds
  • Artists from a discipline supported by Pro Helvetia and meeting the general Pro Helvetia criteria

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: UNCTAD

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