ArtCenter/South Florida announces The Recalibrated Institution, a fellowship program with the Bureau for Cultural Strategies
The Recalibrated Institution Fellowship
September 18-December 15, 2017APPLY NOW Click here
Application Deadline:
July 10, 2017 11:59 PM (EST)From September 18 to December 15, 2017 ArtCenter/South Florida and the Bureau for Cultural Strategies (BUX) are organizing The Recalibrated Institution: a 12-week paid fellowship and laboratory in Miami for developing and testing intelligences that address emerging and long-term systemic challenges.The Recalibrated Institution will welcome eight fellows––three from Miami––selected for their work in contemporary art, design, architecture and related disciplines, as well as cultural managers, economists, coders and all those interested in innovative institutional models and infrastructural set-ups. The selected fellows will receive a stipend of 3,750 USD and roundtrip travel expenses to Miami. In addition, live/work housing in Downtown Miami will also be provided for up to five fellows, with priority given to practitioners coming from outside of Miami.
The eight fellows will work with strategists Marta Ferreira de Sá and Ben Singleton (Rival Strategy), theorist Suhail Malik (Programme Co-Director of the MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London), artist and core organizer of W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) Lise Soskolne, and others on designing frameworks to be probed in partnership with different cultural institutions in Miami and internationally. A series of public programs will also unfold throughout the course of the fellowship program.
The Recalibrated Institution
The Recalibrated Institution takes the contemporary cultural institution as its artistic medium precisely because such institutions are junctures at which geopolitical and economic interests intersect. Whether in the form of the art market, the real estate market, or the “creative city,” cultural institutions routinely function as vehicles for comparative advantage and as access points to select financial and political networks. At the same time, cultural institutions continue to identify with various traditional roles: interfacing with the general public, preserving legacies, providing opportunities for cultural producers, representing and critically engaging with wider societal processes. The aim of the fellowship is to rework these different facets and to bring them into progressive structural realignments.Set in Miami, The Recalibrated Institution takes the city as a leading example of how development is defined in the global contemporary art system: the impact of real estate speculation on urbanism, changing demographics resulting from economic migration or wealth management, and the challenges posed by climate change and sea level rise. Cultural institutions are integral to coalescing these speculative and material interests by presenting Miami as a forward-facing global city to both its local populations as well as external investors.
Bureau for Cultural Strategies (BUX) is formed by Armen Avanessian and Victoria Ivanova. BUX is part of an ongoing project of producing and disseminating conceptual and strategic tool-kits that can enable the sphere of contemporary culture to make actionable claims on the future. Their earlier theoretical collaborations include amongst others the publication The Time-Complex. Postcontemporary (ed. with Suhail Malik, NAME Publications 2016).
Applications are due by July 10, 2017 at 11:59pm (EST). There is no fee to apply
We welcome international applicants, but are unable to assist in visa, sponsorship, or immigration requirements. Advanced knowledge of English language is required.
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