Workshop & Residency Mentored by Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason 27 April-31 May 2024
Deadline for applications: March 31st 2024
This open call is for artists of African descent based in Ireland, the UK and Mainland Europe. You need to be a practicing artist, dancer, actor, sound artist or Video maker but you don’t neccesarily need to have live art or performance art as your core practice.
The objective of the project is to provide a mentored residency, with a structured workshop programme with an outcome of a developed a participatory performance to present in Borrisokane for Africa Week in May 2024
You will come away with new knowlege around participatory performance presentation and documentation of your work and hopefully develop a new network of transnational colleagues and friends.
The key mentor selected for this project is internationally renowned performance and installation artist Rubiane Maia. Artists selected will also have the opportunity to develop their work through a mentored performance to camera workshop with performer and photographer Manuel Vason.
Rubiane Maia: Breathing Memories, 2019. photo Manuel Vason
If you have any questions please contact us via our contact form
We have funding from Culture Moves Europe and the Arts Council of Ireland to cover 6 residencies
These would be for the period 27th of April until the 31st of May it may be possible to arrive a little later up to the 7th at the very latest and leave a little later – Please see further information about the conditions of the Culture Moves Bursary (which will cover 5 Bursaries) below – an additional place on the programme will be funded by Live Art Ireland from Core funding.
Please note the travel allowance does not cover travel by Air just for buses trains and ferrys
