Collide residency award launches new call for entries
Arts at CERN launches a new call for Collide, its flagship residency programme, in partnership with the City of Barcelona. Artists from all around the world are invited to submit their proposals for a research-led residency. The laureate, an individual artist or artistic collective, will be invited to spend three months dedicated to artistic research and exploration between CERN and Barcelona.
Applications for the 2021 edition of the Collide Residency Award are now closed.
Collide calls for artists inspired by the processes of fundamental science and interested in interacting with the scientific communities at CERN and Barcelona. We invite proposals that focus on the artist’s current practice and are open to working with physicists, engineers, IT experts and laboratory staff.
The selected artist or artistic collective will receive a three-month fully funded residency award that will allow them to spend two months at CERN in Geneva, followed by one month in Barcelona (not necessarily consecutively), hosted at Hangar Centre for Art Research and Production in Barcelona and in connection with the city's scientific laboratories. The scope of the artist's proposal should include a research period to be developed at CERN and a second developmental phase in Barcelona, where the artists will have the opportunity to expand their research through Barcelona’s rich scientific and cultural network, as well as to engage with a wide range of communities.
The award includes the following support and conditions:
− 15 000 Swiss Francs as a research and artistic production award.
− Personal allowance for two months at CERN in Geneva and one month in Barcelona.
− Travel and accommodation costs within a fixed budget for the three months of the artistic residency at CERN and in Barcelona.
Arts at CERN focuses on the interactions between artists, scientists and engineers around the Laboratory’s rich culture through residency programmes, art commissions, and exhibitions. The Collide residency programme was established in 2012 to foster networks with international organisations and create new connections between art and fundamental science worldwide.
Following last year’s successful response, the Collide Info Day on 4 November 2021 will give the opportunity to applicants to find out more about the residency award and ask questions to the Collide team of scientists, curators, and winning artists of the last edition.
Online applications for Collide are open from 7 October 2021 until 22 November 2021. A jury of cultural experts and scientists will select the winning artist or artistic collective, who will start their residencies in 2022.