BECA BARCELONA CREA IN EART
E:\ \ART, Centre for mediation, education and contemporary art in Barcelona, is launching a new call aimed at creators, researchers and cultural agents living in Catalonia. This initiative invites professionals from any discipline to develop a research process focused on mediation as an artistic practice with the potential to generate critical contexts, as well as collective and emancipatory practices. With this call, E:ART seeks to support artistic practice understood as a research process based on mediation, conceived as a tool to explore and rethink the relationships between contemporary art, mediation and education.
This grant is supported by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) and is intended to support the processes prior to production that accompany the creation of artistic proposals: conceptualisation, gestation, research, experimentation, documentation and rehearsal. The aim of these grants is to contribute to maintaining the city’s cultural and scientific momentum by offering resources to develop artistic research and innovation processes. The beneficiary project will also receive technical and artistic advice and support from the creation space. The grant project has a clear public and social value, as the projects awarded grants are selected through public, open calls and contribute to the projection of artistic talent linked to the city.
This is a call for artists, researchers and/or cultural agents working in the field of mediation, education and/or contemporary art. The main objective will be to carry out a process of research and reflection that delves into the relationships between artistic practice, mediation and education. The nature of the residency is speculative research, focused on processes and research that go beyond the production or finalisation of products, objects or thoughts. The grant consists of a financial endowment of €6,000, a workspace in the centre’s facilities and resources, curatorial accompaniment and mentoring by the professional team, and dissemination and communication from EART.
Deadline for submission of applications: From 9 January to 2 February 2025 at 23:59.
To whom it is addressed: Creators, researchers and/or cultural agents of legal age, of any discipline, genre and nationality linked to the city of Barcelona may apply.
Period of the residency: The residency will take place between March and September 2025.
Facilities and resources:
Financial endowment of €6,000 (including taxes).
Working space in the E:ARCHIVE Library (except in July)
Access to the resources of E:\ART: work and meeting spaces, tools and technical material.
Curatorial accompaniment and mentoring. E:\ART proposes a continuous accompaniment, facilitating and expanding the creative processes proposed by the practitioner.
Dissemination and communication of the project through E:ÈART’s usual channels. Work space at the E:ÈART Library-Arxiu.
Submission of applications: : The application must be sent using the form on the website.
The form must contain:
Personal and contact details
Type of connection to the city of Barcelona
Research proposal to be carried out during the stay [5,000 characters with spaces max.]
General and specific objectives [2,000 characters with spaces max.]
Methodology [2,000 characters with spaces max.]
_Calendar [1,500 characters with spaces max.]
CV or BIO [1,500 characters with max. spaces] _CV or BIO [1,500 characters with spaces max.
Graphic dossier or portfolio and/or links to website or social networks.
Selection committee: Antoni Abad, Jara Rocha, Gisela Chillida, Daniel Gasol and a member of ICUB.
Information session: 20 January at 17 h.
