Contemporary Calgary Hosts a Non-Residency Residency

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Contemporary Calgary, "Collider," 2019

Contemporary Calgary is setting up an experimental residency program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that will run via virtual interactions and workshops.

The residency, the latest in the gallery's so-called Collider series, invites artists to draw parallels between their own studio practices and the current need to self-isolate and observe social distance.

"By destabilizing the very agency of the residency model in adapting it instead to a virtual interface, we explore and question its efficacy while attempting to configure new ways of cohabiting space, expanding platforms for art production and engagement, and building meaningful communal relationships," the gallery says.

"At another level, in continuing our thematic focus on exploring our engagement with the land, we propose to better understand our shared resources and emotive functions, as a human species when collectively faced with an unseen microscopic contagion." 

Local, national and international artists are eligible and the gallery will pay a $1,500 residency fee to each of the 10 artists who are selected. The residency will run from May 4 to June 15, 2020. The submission deadline is April 15.

For more information, go to this website.

Source: Contemporary Calgary