Deadline: July 07, 2023
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for
Explorations
Under its Arts Practice programme
The Arts Practice programme seeks to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.
A pair of sound artists dissect, classify, splice and stitch the anatomy of a protest song
A storyteller treks high mountains to converse with mycelium
A choreographer collaborates with his community to create a ‘folk dance’ as a way of recovering folktales
A micro fiction-writer uses her voice to reach people in a language they understand but cannot read
As artists, we sometimes stumble upon an idea or feel an urge to venture into a direction that is new and exciting. However, given the context and location of our practice, the foray into these ideas may seem tentative and uncertain. We might at the time know nothing about where it will lead us. Even so, we realise the necessity of following through. A little support at these times may be of help.
Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for such Explorations that seek to probe, test and play around with ideas nascent, risky or unprecedented. These may not necessarily lead to an outcome. Such explorations could include researching, script-writing, location scouting, animatics, jamming, storyboarding, rehearsing, sampling, robotics, lab explorations and other forms of exploratory work that are used to examine ideas.
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