Movement Research Artist-in-Residence 2013 Application Guidelines
What is the Artist-in-Residence (A.I.R.) program?
A program providing year-long commissions, rehearsal space, performance and related opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of selected movement-based artists, who are chosen by a rotating peer artist panel. Artists must apply as individuals.
Applicants must be residents of New York City. Resident means that your permanent mailing address is in New York City/one of the 5 Boroughs. Please note this change in program criteria. The A.I.R. program is currently funded by organizations that specifically support the development of New York City-based artists.
NEW INFORMATION: Applications must be submitted online.
Dates: July 2013 – June 2014 with additional opportunities from July 2014 – June 2015.
Deadline: Applications must be submitted online by 11:59pm on April 1, 2013.
Application Form: http://www.jotform.us/MovementResearch/AIR2013
Application Guidelines:
Be prepared to provide the following information when submitting your online application. You may not save applications in progress. Once applications are submitted they cannot be edited. Movement Research will accept only one application per artist.
1. Contact Information
2. Artistic statement (300 - 400 words) expressing both personal artistic goals and goals for the residency period.
• Include any motivations, intentions, or inspirations that are a critical part of your artistic process as a whole or for the proposed residency.
• Describe any concepts, materials, subjects, processes, structures, or questions central to your work.
3. 1 page Resume (must be formatted as a ONE PAGE 8.5” x 11” PDF document)
4. 1 work sample that best represents the artistic process in which you are currently engaged.
• This year we will ONLY accept online videos. Please provide a link to a URL, either youtube, vimeo or other.
• Sample must show contiguous footage of a work that demonstrates your current research and investigations. Need NOT be the same work you would like to develop as an AIR.
• Include one cue point to a representative 3-5 minute section.
• Sample should contain at least 15 minutes of the full work should the panel want to watch more than the allotted segment.
• DO NOT SEND PROMO VIDEOS OR VIDEOS THAT ARE CLIP EDITED. ALL EDITED PROMO VIDEOS OR VIDEOS WITH A SAMPLING OF CLIPS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
5. Brief description of work sample (150 words or less). Please include details on relevance of the work sample to the goals articulated in your artistic statement.
Criteria and Context:
Movement Research supports the creative process and emerging ideas of artists, not final product. Finished, fully produced work is not expected, nor is MR able to support final productions.
Through the Artist-in-Residence Program, Movement Research supports:
• Rigorous and wide-ranging artistic investigations that are movement-based, but that may incorporate other disciplines and collaborations.
• Artists at all stages of their career, from those who are just starting to make work to those who have been making work for years.
• Artists who reflect a range of directions and approaches to making work such that there is an interesting confluence of artistic ideas being explored over the course of the coming years.
• Artists must apply as individuals, and only one individual artist will be granted each residency.
PLEASE NOTE: Past AIRs must wait three years from the completion of their residency before reapplying. AIRs from 2010 and earlier are eligible for the 2013/2014 application cycle.
Resources provided by Movement Research during the first year of the residency:
• A commissioning fee of $3000
• 50 hours of free rehearsal space
• Access to free or reduced rates for classes and workshops
• Consideration for participation in MRX/Movement Research Exchange programs
• Opportunities to participate in other MR programs and to create own opportunities in consultation with staff, using MR infrastructure
– this can include Studies Project discussion series
• Consultations with MR staff in individual and in group settings
• Opportunities to write for the Movement Research blog and possible opportunities to write for Critical Correspondence and the Performance Journal
During that year-long residency each AIR is required to:
• Show work on the Movement Research at the Judson Church series
• Moderate at least one Open Performance post-discussion
• Participate in artist-in-residence discussion meetings every 4-6 weeks on topics determined by the artists
• Submit a final report at the end of the residency detailing activities throughout the year
During the second year Movement Research provides:
• A small research stipend
• Rehearsal space at reduced rates
• Access to free or reduced rates for classes and workshops
• Opportunities to participate in MRX programs
• An additional chance to show work on the Movement Research at the Judson Church series
• Opportunities to moderate additional Open Performance post-discussions
• Participate in 4-6 meetings over the year on topics determined by the artists
• Submit a final report at the end of the residency detailing activities throughout the year
Movement Research’s Artist-in-Residence program is supported by The Jerome Foundation, The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund and The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Click here to access the online application form.
Click here to download the guidelines in pdf format.
Questions? Email apply@movementresearch.org
Applications must be submitted online by 11:59pm on April 1, 2013.
