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2018/19 Artist in Residence
Above: Certificate of Belonging: The Stud, nominated by Torreya Cummings & John Cartwright. One of 25 certificates installed in locations of belonging, as part of Artist-in-Residence 2018/19 Christine Wong Yap's project.
About the Othering & Belonging Institute
The Othering & Belonging Institute is a vibrant network of researchers and community partners. The Institute is a national leader in translating, communicating, and facilitating research, policy, and strategic engagement to produce change and make a meaningful impact.
The work of the Institute is guided by a focus on “Othering and Belonging.” We seek to deter, prevent and remediate othering, while promoting, expanding and institutionalizing belonging as not only a core value, but as policy, best practice, and an opportunity to envision an inclusive and fair society.
The Othering and Belonging framework has allowed us to better articulate intersections that generate unique positions of marginality, domains in which othering occurs as well as the forces that generate inequality from public finance to immigration and incarceration.
The Othering & Belonging Institute's work promotes belonging by designing systems of structural inclusion and identifying fundamental structures, systems, and institutions that inhibit a genuine and inclusive sense of belonging. The Institute's diverse array of work and inquiry areas are uniquely aligned to create belonging and identify its barriers.
About the Artist in Residence
The annual Artist in Residence program furthers our work in Othering and Belonging and integrates with the Institute's focus on arts and culture as a primary way to advance our collective vision of inclusion.
Belonging is deeply ontological—it speaks to who we are and who we can be. We recognize that stories, symbols, relationships, and rituals are central to a sense of belonging. They also motivate, frame, and ground the systems, political parties, laws, and actions that either advance belonging or enforce othering.
We are looking for work from the Artist in Residence that seeks to advance and expand our concept of belonging at the nexus of being human and the systems and structures that operationalize structural inclusion.
The residency supports artists to deepen their practice. The chosen artist’s project and process will illuminate and advance our understanding of belonging in new and complex ways. In particular, we are interested in works that explore practices of dialogue and engage a broad audience through process and/or outcomes. The Artist in Residence will be selected by a diverse group of public artists, advocates, and partners from the Othering & Belonging Institute and its network. While the residency may be combined with existing or ongoing projects, we do expect discrete activities and/or outcomes that are generated through the relationship to the Institute and the guiding frameworks of the residency.
We view the artist as a resident in the ideas, work, and relationships of the Institute, and in that sense the artist might work remotely for the bulk of the residency period. This program does not provide living space or studio space. Your time with us brings you into connection with a leading social science research Institute and our extremely diverse, interdisciplinary partners, collaborators and community that hail from sectors as diverse as academia, government, nonprofit, law, the arts, philanthropy, faith-based communities, science, policy advocates, community organizers and interested individuals.
To view the incredible work of our first AIR, Christine Wong Yap, please see her project page here, created for the project. Christine also provided a helpful review of her inaugural residency.
Background Information on Artist in Residence
Eligibility requirements:
Artists or artist collectives working independently of a 501c3 nonprofit are eligible. If you are working under a registered 501c3, you are not eligible to apply.
If you are a collective, you must submit one application. Multiple applications for collectives are not permitted.
The AIR does not have to reside in the United States.
We are interested in projects that:
Explore and expand on the relationship of belonging and the dynamic qualities of being human, grounded in an analysis of systems of exclusion and othering
Have dialogue as a core component of the process
Demonstrate a process that is inclusive and seeks transformative change
Result in visually compelling, high quality outcomes
Contain elements that can be completed within the timeframe of the residency and shared publicly
Please note in preparing your application: We use the above points as the rubric for assessing artist applications.
What you can expect as the artist:
A platform for sharing completed work through our diverse network
Amplification of the work through our online presence and publications such as the Journal of Othering and Belonging, the Institute news magazine, and other methods of digital media
Support from the Institute’s Communications Director Rachelle Galloway-Popotas throughout the process
A $15,000 honorarium
A modest budget for materials and travel reimbursement if travel is part of the AIR work
The application requires you to submit the following:
A 500-word letter of intent that describes your proposed project (please see section on “We are interested in project that…”)
A 500-word artist statement
A link to a website that showcases your project or a relevant body of work (please indicate the specific links or images you would like us to focus on). If no URL is available, you may submit a PDF which contains no more than 10 images or samples. Please submit combined as one pdf, or up to three minutes of video that shows your body of work.
A CV, or multiple CVs if applying as a collective
Submit all application materials via the following portal: Artist in Residence 2020
Timeline
July 1, 2019: Call for applications
August 9, 2019: Applications are due by 11:59pm (PST)
August 28, 2019: Short-listed candidates will be notified and receive request for interview
Weeks of August 26 and September 2, 2019: Interviews with short-listed candidates
September 9, 2019: Chosen artist notified, residency period begins with planning meetings with the Othering & Belonging Institute
September 10, 2019: Public announcement
The period of the residency will be October 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020.
For any questions about the Artist in Residence application process, contact evanbissell@berkeley.edu.
