Hello Experimenters!
What a truly strange time to be alive. I’m admittedly distracted today by the attacks on Palestinians and Colombians, the continued COVID-19 assault on India, and the intense paradox of repealing public health measures in the states in favor of the honor system. I don’t have anything clever to say or any solutions to offer. There are much more qualified and active voices to follow for things more concrete than anguish. Here are a couple: @vvalentinavvs (Colombia) & @jewishvoiceforpeace (Palestine).
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Emergency Funds
The Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities due June 15th
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Onassis Emergency Fellowships 2020/21
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Filmmaker’s Guide To Applying For US Coronavirus Federal Relief
Emergency Resources for Artists and Freelancers
COVID-19 Funding for Artists in New England
Calls for Entry
Ruffin Gallery Exhibition Proposals due May 17th (TODAY)
Art for Black Lives Residency due May 18th
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Early Deadline May 20th
PUBLIC INTIMACY; DISTANT CONNECTIONS due May 23rd
Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice due May 24th
Malt Adult #20 Intermission-Loop due May 27th
Homografía due May 30th
BlackStar Nonfiction Pitch Contest due May 31st
Relax due May 31st
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival due May 31st
REAKTOR Potenziale | Call for Concepts due May 31st
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest 2021 due May 31st
ATL 2 Minute Experimental Films due June 1st
Freedom & Captivity due June 1st
VISAP ‘21 due June 1st
Fracto Film Encounter due June 1st
The Lumen Prize due June 4th
After the Deluge due June 6th
Output No 04 due June 6th
Inspired by Words due June 7th
Art Trail due June 11th
POOL 21 due June 14th
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest due June 15th
Light from Space #1 – The Sun due June 20th
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Regular Deadline July 20th
Antimatter Regular Deadline June 30th
WNDX Festival of Moving Image due June 30th
ULTRAcinema 2021 Regular Deadline June 30th
ENGAUGE EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 due July 1st
AIR Gallery Open Call due July 4th
Folklore and Traditions due July 7th
ANALOGICA Regular Deadline July 10th
INCADAQUÉS OPEN CALL 2021 due July 15th
Found Footage Magazine Issue #8 Paper Submission Deadline July 15th
123rd SSA Annual Exhibition due July 18th
2021 Punto y Raya Festival due August 2nd
On Media. Signals and Connections due August 7th
MONSTERFUCKERS due September 1st
Decolonising Film & Screen Studies due September 1st
The 2021 Film And Video Poetry Symposium Deadline September 4th
Freedom for Free due September 7th
Open Residencies & Fellowships
Studios of Key West Media Arts Residency due May 17th (TODAY)
Odyssée Artist-in-Residency due May 29th
Caravan Residency Program due May 30th
3 bis f | contemporary art centre residency due May 30th
The Video Consortium’s 2021 Mentorship Program due May 30th
Unit 1 Gallery Solo Residency due May 31st
Al & Mickey Quinlan Residency due May 31st
CIAR Fall Residency Program due June 1st
Artists in Residence in Everglades due June 1st
Bulegoa z/b residency due June 1st
Austin Film Grant due June 4th
SAL Residency 2021 due June 6th
Remote_CTRL R&D Residency due June 7th
The Firelight Media Documentary Lab due June 15th
ACE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE due June 25th
Swimming in AIR (remote) due June 25th
North Star Fellowship due June 28th
Women In Film Finishing Fund due June 30th
Digital Diasporas due July 15th
Stiwdio Maelor Residency due July 19th
What is Evidence? due July 31st
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Summer Deadline May 15th
HMK 5-month Residency due May 31st
HMK 6-week Residency due May 31st
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence due August 16th
HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES – Spring 22 due September 15th
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Fall Deadline May 15th
Online Artists Support Program
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
Open Funds
British Council Micro Awards due May 18th
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant due May 19th
IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund due April 19th
Jerome Foundation NY & MN Production Grants due April 21st
LEF Early Development Grant due June 4th
LEF Pre-Production Grant due June 4th
ITVS due June 11th
Points North Fellowship Extended Deadline June 14th
Collective Futures Fund due June 15th
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists due June 30th
American Stories Documentary Fund due July 5th
Sundance Institute | Stars Collective Granting Fund due July 16th
Black Artists Grant (UK)
ARTNOIR’S JAR OF LOVE FUND (US-based artists, curators, and cultural workers of color)
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
TEFF: Honorable Mention Collection 2021 (April 1st – June 1st)
Experiments in Cinema v16.1 (May 1st – 22nd)
Proximities: 4 Films by Cauleen Smith (April 29th – May 23rd)
Artist Cinemas presents Back and Forth Collective (May 17th – 23rd)
Images Festival (May 20th – May 26th)
TEFF: Meet the Filmmaker – Ramey Newell (May 14th – 31st)
Cousins and Kin: Shelley Niro’s Honey Moccasin (May 16th – June 15th)
Gaze.Play.Dream. (May 21st – 28th)
AndroTechne (May 18th 6:30 PM BST)
Harm Redux for Sex Workers (May 23rd 3 – 5PM ET)
Things to Read
Article/Essay: Interview with Basma Alsharif by Helen Mackreath
Book Recommendation: Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said
Poem: Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
Things to Do
Assignment: Now that you’ve identified an AAPI artist whose work speaks to your own practice and really immersed yourself in their work, it’s time to take things a step forward. In your immersion last week, you probably identified a favorite work or one that really sticks with you. How would you remake/respond to that work? For instance, if you chose Carol Nyugen’s Every Grain of Rice (featured last week) how might you make a work that is as personal to you and as EGR is to Carol and that highlights your own aesthetic practice and prowess? It is key that you still make this your own and that it speaks to the original work in some way–this is an exercise in artistic appropriation & homage, not cultural appropriation and self aggrandizement.
Journal: Do you have a recurring nightmare? Maybe just a recurring dream. Maybe it’s a recurring dream that has become so bothersome it’s become a nightmare? Describe it. What is it that’s so haunting? Why do you think it stays with you? Are there certain conditions that make it recur?
