[Reader-list] Call for Proposals: City as Studio Associate Fellowship

[The Sarai Programme]

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Sarai-CSDS City as Studio Associate Fellowship in:*

1.*Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice*

Fellowship amount INR 60,000 for six months, with a fully covered and 
compulsory studio-residency of five weeks in Delhi between January and 
February 2013. We will support fourteen fellowships.

2.*Non-Fiction Writing *

Fellowship amount INR 80,000 for seven months, an additional travel 
grant of INR 40,000, with a fully covered and compulsory 
studio-residency of two weeks in Delhi between January and February 
2013. We will support four fellowships.

/The proposals need to contain a note (of minimum four pages) sketching 
an idea that the applicant would like to embark on. A profile along with 
two samples of works should accompany the proposal. Last date of 
submission is Monday, 1^st October, 2012./

The Sarai Programme (www.sarai.net) at Centre for the Study of 
Developing Societies, Delhi, invites proposals for fellowships under its 
City as Studio process. The City as Studio fellowship seeks to bring 
contemporary artistic, literary and cultural practice into the 
contentious, active space of today's urbanity and has over the last two 
years created contexts for high intensity inter-disciplinary processes 
in Delhi. The studio process have brought together artists, urbanists, 
educationists, writers, cultural workers, neighbourhood initiatives and 
diverse audiences to create art works, participatory performances, media 
works, salons, transmissions of different kinds of signals and 
imaginative festive events. Logs of earlier editions may be downloaded from:

_http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/city-studio-2012_

_http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/city-as-studio-2010_

The third edition of City as Studio will be nested within the context of 
Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, 
and a collaboration between Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, and 
Sarai-CSDS. Sarai Reader 09 is a contemporary art exhibition process 
that opened on 18th August, 2012 and will run till 16th April, 2013 at 
the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon. The exhibition will bring new works to 
the public, and generate a desire for an engaging vocabulary of, and 
ways of practicing and thinking about, art.

*1.  Associate Fellowship In Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice*

In the spirit of Sarai Reader 09, we look forward to the production of a 
wide range of shared and experimental methodologies and personal 
journeys that can be activated in a variety of ways through the third 
edition of City as Studio. Proposals are invited to imagine practice in 
a fresh and rigorous way, inaugurate newer directions and interrogate 
discursive frames and practice. The questions that animate this edition 
are around the corporeal and imaginative questions around sensations of 
thinking and its relation to an artistic sensibility. We are interested 
in a situation of co-habitation of the discursive and aesthetic, where 
the work of art is not separate from its research and making, and 
artistic practices and actors come together in space and conversation.

Applicants may be contemporary artists/practitioners working within any 
medium, such as video, photography, installation, animation, 
architecture, sound, performance, textual arts and the intersections of 
art and software, science and other areas of practice. The artists and 
practitioners who are selected will work in dialogue with Sarai Reader 09.

*2.  Associate Fellowship In Non-Fiction Writing*

This year we also inaugurate a special focus on the art and practice of 
non-fiction writing and literary journalism as part of the 'City as 
Studio' process. This comes from our recognition of the dynamism that 
long-form non-fiction writing, combining investigation, reportage, 
memoir and the personal essay has come to acquire in recent years in 
writing in the English language in India. From 2002 to 2007, Sarai's 
Independent Fellowship Programme acted as a catalyst for the non-fiction 
genre -- generating, for instance, the remarkable work of Aman Sethi ('A 
Free Man'), Naresh Fernandes ('Taj Mahal Foxtrot'), and Basharat Peer 
('Curfewed Night') among others.

The third edition of City as Studio invites submissions from writers, 
journalists and others with a specific intent to support serious 
engagement with the practice of literary non-fiction.

Applicants are invited to propose specific ideas that outline a 
non-fiction writing project -- these can take different forms -- ranging 
from the philosophical to the personal to the whimsical to the 
speculative to the engaged to the intensely observational. We are 
looking for an engagement that is rigorous and innovative, to proposals 
that offer a clear outline of the process that the writer intends to 
follow and a desire to inaugurate new forms and genres of literary 
practice.

We expect the fellow to travel for either research or to immerse herself 
in different milieus -- be they in the field, difficult locations or in 
the archive -- and undertake new experiences. We are looking for a quest 
for adventures with ideas and words and a commitment to make writing a 
public form, capable of robust discussion. The selected writers will be 
required to present 'work in progress' to their peers (artists, writers 
and others involved in the 'City as Studio' process). Applications are 
invited for writing in English only.

*ELIGIBILITY:*


Anyone above the age of 21 with a bank account and a PAN number in India 
can apply for this fellowship. The residency period will be in Delhi, 
and artists will work at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon. This is a 
compulsory part of the City as Studio process.


Send the application by post to -
City as Studio, Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India.