Gestavinnustofa á Spáni

Call for the Artist-in-Residency Program at the Countryside
Inland - art, agricultures and countryside.

Artists of different disciplines will be invited and comissioned, to inmerse and produce in diverse locations of the spanish countryside that represent paradigmatic cases of the current rural milieu.

Selected artists would be from 1st April untill 30 th August in the sites defined within Inland Residencies Program. The will became neighbours for a certain period of time, from a Cantabrian Mountains village, to a colonisation town of Extremadura, the plain lands of Tierra de Campos or a fishing community in Galicia

They will have a local resource person, a training workshop, a work space and accomodation, production resources,  curator´s guidance,  documentation of the process , with a publication and exhibition at the end of the residency.

The goal of the Inland Residency Program is to put in practice the statements posed during last Inland International Conference, Madrid 21-24 October, and at the same time have a creative investment in the rural question.

On support of experimenting with collaborative, site-specific and process art, where the portrait, the crithic, the transformation or elaboration of the essences and concepts within the rural are possible.

It will be also a chance to contrast the role of art and the artist in a local context.

For any other information, read the rules or download the registrance forms, visit   http://www.campoadentro.es

INLAND- CAMPO ADENTRO is a project that examines the role of territories, geopolitics, culture and identity in the relationship between the city and the countryside in Spain today.

Its objective is to launch a cultural strategy in support of rural life over a period of three years (2010-2013), specifically made up of an international conference, artistic production through a residency program, an exhibition and a publication.