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

[imran ali khan]

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On Mar 22, 2015 10:41 PM, "whysabih" <whysabih at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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.
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