Deadline: 18 February 2024
Applications are now open for the EMBracing the Ocean Artist-in-Residence Program 2024-2025 The European Marine Board (EMB) is seeking two new artists/artist groups for the 2024-2025 edition of the program. As we enter the fourth year of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the need to connect people to the ocean is more important than ever.
The EMBracing the Ocean program offers grants to creative individuals/groups from a wide range of disciplines to engage in a two-way co-creation of artworks in collaboration with ocean scientists. The program's objectives are to raise societal awareness of the value of the ocean and inspire behavioral change towards a sustainable future, while contributing new knowledge and/or perspectives to the scientific research process.
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Grant
- Two award winners will be selected for the 2024-2025 program, and each will receive a grant of €10,000. The grant will be paid periodically during the 12-month residency after the completion of the planned results.
Eligibility
The program is open to creative individuals/groups from a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Emerging and established artists will be considered by the committee. Prior experience in co-creation with scientists and/or communities and work on sustainability issues is desirable. Applications are welcome from around the world and from a wide variety of creative disciplines, including but not limited to:
- visual arts (e.g., drawing, painting, film, photography, sculpture, digital arts, art installation);
- Literary arts (e.g., fiction, drama, poetry, storytelling);
- performing arts (e.g., dance, music, theatre); and
- Traditional and indigenous arts.
Selection criteria
The following criteria will be used to score applications, and applicants must address them clearly in their application materials:
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- Quality of provisional ideas, timeline, and budget;
- Relevance and quality of previous work (based on portfolio, CV, description of creative practice, motivational statement);
- potential for mutual influence between artistic and scientific work;
- potential to reach as wide an audience as possible (based on communication, public engagement and impact plan); and
- Potential to raise awareness of the social value of the ocean and to inspire behavioral changes towards sustainability, including longevity after death (based on the communication and public engagement plan, motivational statement).
Application
Applicants will need to upload a PDF/rar/zip file (max. 4 MB) including:
- Summary of the proposal (max. 150 words);
- Description of the proposed work, including topic(s) of interest, co-creation approach (i.e., how reciprocal influence between artistic and scientific work will be achieved), and scientist(s) with whom the candidate will collaborate (include name, affiliation, and link to webpage) (max. 500 words);
- Preliminary plan for communication and public engagement, including plans to achieve impact (including longevity of impact), target group(s) of citizens and how they will be reached, how the work will raise awareness of the social value of the Ocean and inspire behavioral changes towards sustainability, and links to cultural organizations (max. 150 words);
- Description of the candidate's creative practice to date, including social reach, impact, and hyperlinks to relevant works (max. 150 words);
- Previous collaboration with scientists, or motivation for collaboration with scientists; and previous involvement with sustainability issues, or motivation for involvement with sustainability issues (max. 150 words);
- Provisional monthly schedule, including types of activities expected to be carried out;
- A provisional budget including, for example, artists' fees, materials, expenses, travel, promotional materials, and campaigns;
- Letter of agreement from the scientific collaborator(s) that they will participate in the project; and
- Artist(s) Curriculum Vitae.
In addition, candidates may submit their portfolio with examples of previous work (1 PDF/MP3/wav/rar/zip upload, max. 6 MB).
