22 Sep 2017

OPEN CALL: 'ace Residency at Buenos Aires, Argentina

´acePIRAR Artist-in-Residence International Program aims to support all kind of contemporary artistic practices (including performance and curatorial proposals) through research and production residencies, promoting the exchange, debate, experimentation and collaborative work.

A program that provides time, space and guidance to explore expanded as well as traditional print media, while it connects the artists with the art scene of Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of the Latin America cultural capitals.

We offer different types of residencies to best fit each artist's project.

o PRODUCTION
The Production Residences are intended to produce new work, a project or a site-specific installation with the possibility to show the finished work at the end of the stay. We welcome all kind of projects and encourage submitting those that question the singularity of the art object by using the reproducible capacity of printmaking, photography, new media, design and/or their interfaces, blurring their boundaries.

o EXPLORATION
The Exploration Residences, unlike the production residencies, emphasise the process over the presentation of the results, encouraging residents to get inspiration from the new experiences achieved through the interaction with other residents and the cultural environment that the city of Buenos Aires provides.

DURATION OF RESIDENCY
The program encompasses a period of 4-week residence. Slots can be selected here.
www.proyectoace.org/slots
Artists can apply for any slot for the current year or next year among those posted at the web site. Residency working time starts on first Monday at 10am and ends on last Friday at 6pm.

CANDIDATES FOR THE 'ace RESIDENCY
a) Established as well as emerging artists who want to produce a body of work or to start a project that involves production, which may include an exhibition/installation.
b) Established as well as emerging artists who need technical assistance to develop new work with traditional or experimental techniques of printmaking, or want to explore new techniques and young artists interests in receiving technical and conceptual advice.
c) Established as well as emerging printmakers that would like to access to specific equipment to produce their work, editions or to make large size prints with or without assistance from the master printer.
d) Established as well as emerging visual artists, designers and performers from all disciplines within the visual arts that are able to work or to research independently (there is not access to the print studio, common materials or specific tools in this category)
e) Established as well as emerging curators who want to have time and space for studying and writing or to do research in our library specialized in print, photography and digital media, while being immersed in a unique cultural environment.

ACCOMODATION
Artists have two different possibilities of lodging:
a) Aloj´ace is our guesthouse, an apartment equipped to accommodate artists and curators. The apartment is fully furnished with a full kitchen and bath and all cost (Internet WI-FI, cable television, local phone usage, cleaning, linen and utilities) included. This apartment can receive a single artist.
b) The artist may arrange their own lodging by renting an apartment, staying with friends or in hostels, hotels, B&B, etc. Buenos Aires is a city that offers many lodging options, as the city is plenty of places to stay.


STUDIO/WORKSPACE
Artists that choose the Production Residency use the 'ace workshop: a large, quiet space with lots of light coming from several large windows and two skylights. The shop includes equipment to facilitate a variety of traditional and new print processes including Intaglio, Monotype/Monoprint, Woodblock, Waterless Lithography, Silk-aquatint, Photopolymer Intaglio, as well as artists' books and Drawing.

Artists who choose the Exploration residency work in The Tower: a quiet and luminous studio located on the second floor with open view, accessibly by a spiral staircase. It is ideal to research, study, write and create.

FEES AND SUPPORT
Non-application fee. The residencies have a basic fee and the artist can select other options: lodging, materials or technical assistance. Basic fee covers: studio space, access to equipment, refreshments during the working hours, permanent website profile, social media communication, guidance through the travel planning and in during the stay in Buenos Aires, local cellphone, local public transport card, Buenos Aires cultural network. The residency fee does not include travel, health insurance and shipping expenses.

APPLICATION
After receiving all the information for the specific type of residency (Production, Exploration, SUB30, Palimpsest mural painting residency or micro-residency) artists complete an application form which the 'ace team will provide.
For those artists proposals accepted, 'ace will provide an invitation letter.
More information www.proyectoace.org/additional_info