[artinfo] La Box at École Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Bourges: call for projects

[Ferenc Gróf]

From: Art&Education <edu-news at mailer.e-flux.com>
Date: 2013/2/19

La Box: call for projects

Application closing date: 31 March 2013

box.ensa-bourges.fr

The École Nationale Supérieure d'Art (ENSA) in Bourges provides its students
with generous workspaces and technical facilities that are regularly
modernised and re-equipped. It offers a Masters in Visual Arts that puts the
emphasis on inventiveness and creativity.

La Box is one of the school's main educative tools, and every year it
organises ten exhibitions by artists from France and elsewhere.

For the last eight years, it has been entrusting part of its programme to
young curators over the course of an academic year, chosen and monitored by
members of the School's teaching team—Arnaud Deshayes, Ingrid Luche and
Hervé Trioreau in 2012–13.

Moreover, for twenty years now, ENSA has been providing residencies, with
the backing of the Regional Cultural Affairs Office (DRAC) and France's
Centre Region. These residencies are intended to give young artists from
France and other countries the chance to carry out personal research
projects in association with the school, its teachers, its students and any
other outside partner of their choice.

>>>>> Call for a curatorial project

Part of the programme for the 2013–14 season will be entrusted to an
independent curator, a critic or a collective whose curatorial project has
been chosen by La Box's selection panel.

The final proposal should lay down the project's structure and time frame
before the end of June 2013, when timetabling of the exhibitions for the
following season will take place. The project's experimental character will
be one of the main selection criteria.

As part of the School's teaching context, the programme should include the
presence and participation of the students in workshops extending from the
designing of the exhibitions through to their actual presentation. The
curator(s) should also choose and implement a liaison approach aimed at an
outside audience.

The overall budget is 25,000 euros. Of this 20,000 euros will be devoted to
production and transport of works, travel and accommodation expenses for the
artists, travel expenses for the curator(s), communication, publications;
the remaining 5000 euros will cover miscellaneous expenses for the
curator(s).

Candidates must be aware that this kind of programme demands considerable
availability on their part. Attendance at regular on-site meetings—including
the project validation and organisation meeting in June 2013—is
indispensable. In addition, ready responsiveness by phone or email is vital
during preparation of the programme. The curator must be present during the
setting up and opening of exhibitions.

In the case of a collective, dialogue and coordination between the members
is essential so as to avoid all contradictions in their dealings with the
School and La Box.

Terms and conditions
Draft projects must be presented using the following form, downloaded and
filled out. They should be sent by email to la.box at ensa-bourges.fr, marked
for the attention of Chloé Nicolas.

Closing date for applications: 31 March 2013

The short list will be drawn up in April 2013.
Interviewing and selection of shortlisted candidates will take place in May
2013. Prior to this they will be asked to provide further details of their
projects.

http://www.ensa-bourges.fr/images/stories/pdf/Application%20form-curator.pdf

>>>>> Call for residency projects
Annually since 1991 ENSA has been providing residencies, with the backing of
the Regional Cultural Affairs Office and France's Centre Region. These
residencies are intended to give young artists from France and other
countries the chance to carry out personal research projects in association
with the school, its teachers, its students and any other outside partner of
their choice.

Successful applicants are awarded a residency of a minimum of three months
and a maximum of four months, for periods to be agreed on during the
academic year.

They each receive a grant of 3000 euro.

Terms and conditions
Portfolio + application form sent by email in PDF to la.box at ensa-bourges.fr
and by post
to Chloé Nicolas, La Box – 9, rue Édouard-Branly, BP 297, 18006 Bourges
cedex, France

Closing date for applications: 31 March 2013

http://www.ensa-bourges.fr/images/stories/pdf/APPLICATION%20FORM-residenceis.pdf