Deadline: February 18, 2024
Applications are open for the EMBracing the Ocean Artist-in-Residence Programme 2024-2025. The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2024 – 2025 edition of the programme. As we enter the fourth year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the need to connect people to the Ocean is more important than ever.
The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides grants for creative individuals/groups from a wide-range of disciplines to engage in a two-way co-creation of artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists. The aims of the programme are to raise societal awareness of the Ocean’s value and inspire behavioural change for a sustainable future, while contributing new insight and/or perspectives to the scientific research process.
Grant
- Two awardees will be selected for the 2024 – 2025 programme and each will be awarded a grant of €10,000. The grant will be paid periodically throughout the 12-month residency on completion of planned deliverables.
Eligibility
The programme is open to creative individuals/groups from a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Both emerging and established artists will be considered by the committee. Prior experience in co-creation with scientists and/or communities and working on sustainability topics is desirable. Applications are welcome from across the world, and from a wide range of creative disciplines, including but not limited to:
- visual arts (e.g. drawing, painting, filmmaking, photography, sculpting, digital arts, installation art);
- literary arts (e.g. fiction, drama, poetry, storytelling);
- performing arts (e.g. dance, music, theatre); and
- traditional and indigenous arts.
Selection Criteria
The following criteria will be used for scoring applications, and applicants should be sure to address these clearly in their application materials:
- quality of provisional ideas, timeline, and budget;
- relevance and quality of previous work (based on portfolio, CV, description of creative practice, motivational statement);
- potential for reciprocal influence between the artistic and scientific work;
- potential for reaching as wide an audience as possible (based on communication, public engagement and impact plan); and
- potential for raising awareness of the societal value of the Ocean and for inspiring behavioural change towards sustainability, including longevity after the residency (based on communication and public engagement plan, motivational statement).
Application
Applicants will need to upload one PDF/rar/zip file (max. 4 MB) including:
- Summary of proposal (max. 150 words);
- Description of the proposed work, including topic(s) of interest, co-creation approach (i.e. how reciprocal influence between the artistic and scientific work will be achieved), and scientist(s) the applicant will collaborate with (include name, affiliation, and link to webpage) (max. 500 words);
- Preliminary communication and public engagement plan, including plans to achieve impact (including longevity of impact), target group(s) of citizens and how they will be reached, how the work will raise awareness of the societal value of the Ocean and inspire behavioural change towards sustainability, and links to cultural organisations (max. 150 words);
- Description of applicant’s creative practice to date, including societal reach, impact, hyperlinks to relevant work (max. 150 words);
- Previous collaboration with scientists, or motivation for collaboration with scientists; and previous engagement with sustainability topics, or motivation for engaging with sustainability topics (max. 150 words);
- Provisional monthly timeline including types of activities expected to be carried out;
- Provisional budget including e.g. artist fees, materials, expenses, travel, promotional materials, campaigns;
- Letter of agreement from scientific collaborator(s) that they will engage in the project; and
- Artist(s) Curriculum Vitae.
In addition, applicants may submit their portfolio with examples of previous work (1 PDF/MP3/wav/rar/zip upload, max. 6 MB).
For more information, visit EMBracing the Ocean Programme.
