Open Call

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REGULATIONS FOR OPEN CALL LISBON WEEK RESIDENCIES (EN)

Lisbon Week, in partnership with Prata Riverside Village - our main partner, launches a call for  artists for four residencies, lasting one month  each, in Marvila, Lisbon, under the theme of “work and labour”.


1.RECIPIENTS

LISBONWEEK RESIDENCIES are aimed at art students, emerging artists and young artists who aspire to develop activity in any area of ​​artistic expression. It takes the form of a residency grant, as part of the 7th edition of Lisbonweek, which takes place between the 1st and the 31st of May 2022. The winning artists of the residency will benefit from curatorial assistance starting in April 2021, and presenting the resulting artistic project from the 2022 edition of Lisbon Week.

 

2. FEES

Artist Fee: €400.00 (+ VAT) Production: €500.00 (VAT included). The Artist Fee requires a receipt from the artists and the Production Fee will be managed by Lisbon Week. This value includes all costs inherent to the production and presentation of the project. The winners are free to invest their own funds or those from other sources in the production of the project.

 

3. PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND PRESENTATION

The artists’ place of work during the one-month residency will be Hazan Studios…..

The place for the presentation of the artistic result of the residency will be defined between the artist and the Lisbon Week organization.

 

4. APPLICATIONS

Applications are accepted for:

- Artist over 18 years of age, of any nationality;

- All areas of artistic expression.

 

5. APPLICATION DOSSIER

The LisbonWeek Residence Open Call only accepts applications in digital format, which must include an Application Dossier and Other Optional Attachments (see point 5.1.). All application files must be sent as attachments and in a single email with the subject “Application Open Call Residence LW / Name” to contact@lisbonweek.com

For application purposes:

- Elements or information sent in the body of the email will not be considered

- Applications or elements of the application sent by Wetransfer, Drive, Zip or any other file sharing system will not be accepted.

 

5.1. MANDATORY ELEMENTS OF THE APPLICATION

a) Application Dossier – File in PDF format, with a maximum of 10 pages. A4 and 15MB. Candidates are free to organize their Application Dossier and include other content they deem relevant, as long as they include the following mandatory elements:
Framework – Text with a maximum of 2000 characters with spaces. Brief description of the reasons that lead to applying for the Lisbon Week residency, and the reasons why participation in Lisbon Week is important for your research/artistic journey.

b) Portfolio Selection of works/projects already developed in the formats of text, image or active links in PDF for platforms that allow online viewing, such as the website, Youtube, Vimeo and others.

c) Identification of the candidate - Name - Biography - up to 750 characters with spaces, in Portuguese or English; - Address, telephone number and email address;

- OPTIONAL: website or page on social networks (eg Facebook or Instagram);

- OPTIONAL: images and synopses of works already developed. b) Other Attachments – Optional Submission, stand-alone files with a maximum of 5MB each Two (2) images of previous works or projects, with the respective captions and credits.

 

6. JURY

The Artist Selection Jury will be made up of the following elements:

- Xana Nunes, Lisboneeek director

- Filipa Oliveira, curator

- Brooke Waterhouse, co-founder NAU!

- Georges Zorgbibe, colecionador

The Jury's decisions are not subject to any appeal.

 

7. REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATION

Requests for clarification must be sent to contact@lisbonweek.com  by February 23th. Requests for clarification sent after this deadline will not be considered.

 

8. CONTACTS

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS

contact@lisbonweek.com 

 

REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATIONS

contact@lisbonweek.com 

 

 

Applications are open until March 11, 2022.

 

THEME: Work

According to Edward W. Younkins, the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality, “Work is at the root of a meaningful life, it is the path to individual independence, and it is a necessity for human survival and flourishing. It is also the way in which men realize their identity as rational, goal-oriented beings.”

Does life only have meaning when work is at its center? Is it the guarantor of human flourishing? And is our identity still closely linked to the idea of ​​work?

Undoubtedly, work has been a human practice since the beginning of civilization. We consider work as a virtue and simultaneously as a necessity. It's a centerpiece of the system we live in and it's a way of life. We tend to accept work as something natural and inevitable. But why do we work so hard and for so long? We spend a large part of our lives dedicated to a craft, do we do it for ambition or sustenance? What motivates us?

In the book The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks proposes a post-work society that will allow people to be productive and creative rather than being relentlessly tied to an employment relationship. What could this new way of life be like? What can it mean to work in a post-capitalist society? What will be the role of knowledge and information in this new society?

Can art have a place in the re-imagining of what it might be and mean to work in the future?

When you work wiht passion or with a sense of mission, isn´t work anymore ?

The challenge of this residence is to think about this theme based on the neighborhood of Marvila.

In the 19th century, Marvila was known for its street markets, fed by the horticultural production of resident farms, mostly from northern owners, new habits and customs arrived in Lisbon such as the Feira da Espiga.

Later it became an urban and manufacturing area, where wines and the ancestral art of cooperage stood out.

Marvila was also a manufacturing district, with special emphasis on the metal industry.

Abel Pereira da Fonseca said: “As long as the Tagus has water, Lisbon should never lack wine”…

 

Locations for inspiration that you should visit:
Port
Beach
Tradition
History
Stairway
Palacio Marques de Abrantes