Deadline for Applications:
October 15, 2016
Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) is a multi-disciplinary
roving project space that follows on GoetheOnMain, which was based at Arts On
Main in Johannesburg from May 2009 to November 2016. The new programme will
support work realized all over South Africa ranging from workshops to
exhibitions, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film,
music, dance and theatre projects.
GPS is envisioned as a non-commercial, artist-centered free
platform, designed to support not only the artists and their projects, but also
the many structures, platforms and festivals that currently exist and need
partnerships of this nature in order to continue their work.
GPS enables actors,
artists, performers, curators, choreographers, writers, dancers, composers,
directors, and musicians to select the space and infrastructure they wish to
work with. If awarded, a GPS grant would support both the hosting space and the
project itself.
The new project signals a move to decentralize, supporting
smaller spaces and also ones situated outside of the large metropoles.
Practitioners will be able to produce their work locally with a partner of
their choice and a GPS grant. Similarly to the GoetheOnMain project that
preceded it, a public call for proposals is presided over by an independent
jury of arts professionals, who make the selection.
GPS aims to support non-commercial work and will privilege
experimental content, with the focus above all else falling on artistic
quality. This, whilst maintaining a sensitivity for the chosen context and
local relevance of the themes and conversations that the work engages in.
Partnership is at the core of the GPS project. Proposals will be looked at not
only in terms of the work itself, but also the space for which it is intended:
considering the appropriateness and track record of the proposed partner.
GPS forms part of the Goethe-Institut’s programme that
promotes intercultural engagement through fostering dialogue and exchange in
the arts. The Goethe-Institut looks forward to seeing installations, workshops,
events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, public
art, dance and theatre work; realised throughout South Africa through GPS
grants.
Application deadline is October 15, 2017. Realisation period:
April, 2017, to December, 2017. Click here to download the application.
(This information is
published in full on the Arts & Culture Trust’s blog – see http://www.act.org.za)
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