[Reader-list] Open Call: Archival Fellowship | Asia Art Archive & India Foundation for the Arts

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*India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)* in collaboration with Asia Art
Archive invites applications for one* Archival Fellowship*, for a period of
8-10 months, to support creative practitioners - curators, artists,
designers, film-makers, art historians, programmers - to work with the
materials in AAA’s digital archive, partially accessible online and fully
available on site in Delhi and Hong Kong. (Click *here
<http://www.aaa.org.hk/cms/Content/upload/programme/file/AAA%20Collection%20Highlights%20-%20India%20Projects.pdf>*
for
a list of AAA Collection highlights on India Projects.) The intention is to
give applicants the opportunity to engage with the archive in innovative
and original ways culminating in a tangible outcome such as an exhibition,
film, web-design, publication, etc., at the end of 10 months in April 2016.
For more details, Click *HERE* <http://www.aaa.org.hk/ArchivalFellowship>.

IFA’s Archival Fellowships have been initiated with the two-fold objective
of providing creative practitioners with an opportunity to generate new,
critical, and creative approaches to public engagement with archives while
energising archives as spaces for dialogue and discourse.

 *About the Fellowship*

   - *Applicant profile:* We seek applications from creative practitioners
   with previous artistic or curatorial experience and a strong interest in
   archives. From visual artists and designers, to curators and programmers,
   this fellowship seeks project proposals that engage with the AAA collection
   in innovative and imaginative ways. Practitioners who are Indian nationals
   or have been a resident of India for five or more years are eligible to
   apply.


   - *Financial assistance & other support: *The fellowship provides an
   honorarium of Rs 2,00,000 for the duration of 10 months along research
   facilities at the archives of AAA. The Fellowship also covers a two-week
   research-trip to Hong Kong in 2015, where the library and physical archive
   of AAA is located.
   A separate budget will be provided for the final outcome.


   - *Important dates: *
   The deadline for receiving applications is *10 April 2015*.
   Shortlisted candidates will be informed by *24 April 2015*.
   Interviews with shortlisted candidate are expected to take place on *first
   week of May 2015*.
   The Fellowship will commence on *25 May 2015* for a period of 10 months.