Eligibility

The East Call Curatorial Residency offers a unique opportunity for emerging curators to gain a comprehensive insight into the Hungarian contemporary art scene by examining its characteristics and understanding them in a broader, regional context. East Call is an intensive program that focuses on the status and practice of artists, contemporary curatorial conditions, institutional situations and the understanding of issues affecting contemporary art, with a focus on the roles and responsibilities of curators as mediators between audiences and artists, and researchers as theoretical transmitters of knowledge, interpretation and contextualization. East Call aims to foster dialogues on issues surrounding curation and to interrogate what constitutes “the curatorial” in the Central Eastern European region. The East Call program focuses on open, horizontal and conversation-based transfers of knowledge and experience.

Number of Participants

20

Deadline

January 19, 2020 22:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

January 30, 2020 22:00 UTC

Duration

April 20, 2020 - May 01, 2020

Costs

• €1,000.00 program fee (one-time)

Public Programs

Courses, Critique, Discussion, Exhibition

Disciplines

Curatorial

Languages

English

Program Description

The program is designed for emerging curators and curators-to-be still involved in their studies who expect to work in the field of contemporary art. It intends to introduce participants to current and relevant practices as well as to the mechanisms of curating in relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics and cultural political discourse. The residents spend ten days in Budapest, and two days in Bratislava as a final regional case-study. Throughout this period, participants intensively expand their professional knowledge and practice by conducting in-depth investigations of contemporary exhibitions, getting introduced to case studies of leading curators and their engagements, taking part in curatorial workshops, visiting artist’s studio, and exchanging, discussing with each other during their stay.