Festival Residency Call

Story Posted: 24 May 2016
Categories: Artists

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Call for Artists  Johannesburg

Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg.

 Call for artists addressing technology and/or creative technologists from the Southern African region to participate in the annual Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Festival’s Residency in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 Application & Proposal Deadline: June 28th 2016

Festival Residency Focus: The focus of the Fak’ugesi Festival in 2016 is on the role of alternative knowledge and organisational systems in technology.  We are looking for artists and creative technologists who are exploring concepts of community, spirituality or femininity in technology in Africa in their practice.  Practitioners in the fields across a variety of fields from contemporary art, game design, interactive design and creative computing are encouraged to apply.

 Successful applicants will be required to develop (in part) work in residence and engage publicly through their practice with attendees/participants in the Fak’ugesi Festival, relative to these aforementioned thematic focuses. In addition to exhibiting their work, successful applicants are expected to plan a public engagement activity. This may be through a workshop or another publicly engaging activity. In addition to these activities residents are expected to give a short talk on their practice, as part of the festival programme.

Festival Dates: 19 August to 3 September

Full Festival Residency Period: 1 month, from early August to early September 2016.

Applicants from the following countries in the region are eligible to apply:

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Seychelles, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Pro Helvetia Johannesburg’s support for the residency programme is enabled through finance from the SADC regional office of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

To see more on the 2015 Fak’ugesi Residency watch 2015 Residents Interviews.

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