Hrair Sarkissian - Artist Talk

Hrair Sarkissian - Artist talk

Friday 10 September 2010,
18:30 -19:30 at The Delfina Foundation

Current resident artist Hrair Sarkissian (Syria) uses traditional documentary photographic techniques to highlight the paradox between the beauty and constancy of natural and urban landscapes and the social and historical realities that they conceal. 

Hrair Sarkissian has shown his work internationally, including, most recently, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2010), the 11th Istanbul Biennal (2009), the State Museum of Contemporary Art  (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008) and Disorientation II (Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, 2010). He currently lives and works in Amsterdam. 

Free event, limited seats available, rsvp required. Please email rsvp@delfinafoundation.com

Tashweesh Performances - Edinburgh & Glasgow

Audio-visual collective Tashweesh (Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme and boikutt) is set to perform on 3 dates in Edinburgh and Glasgow, as part of the Beyond Borders festival 2010. Although Tashweesh are a newly-formed group, the 3 members previously collaborated and performed together under the name Ramallah Underground.  

Dates and venues: 

Monday 2 August, 9pm: The Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EY
tel: 0131 220 4538, free event.
www.theforest.org.uk 

Tuesday 3 August, 8pm: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
tel: 0141 332 7521, free event. 
www.cca‐glasgow.com 

Thursday 5 August, 4pm: Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE
A response to the themes of the exhibition The Spacemakers. Free event, limited seats, rsvp essential: rsvp@delfinafoundation.com 

The Spacemakers

THE SPACEMAKERS

30 July - 24 August 2010
Edinburgh College of Art (Tent Gallery), Art Space & Nature, Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE: Mon – Fri, 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday: 11:00 – 17:00 
sleeper, 6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6BG: Mon – Fri: 10:00 – 17:00, Closed on Saturdays 

With Taysir Batniji, decolonizing.ps (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman), and Jawad al Malhi. Films and videos by Nikolaj Bendix, Hala Elkoussy, mounir fatmi, Bouchra Khalili, Judy Price, Basma Sharif and Solmaz Shahbazi. 

The Delfina Foundation presents The Spacemakers, a group exhibition that explores artistic perspectives on the immediate challenges of creating a home, in some of today’s most diverse and harried urban landscapes.

The planning and construction of a home articulates personal needs as well as the necessity to improve on one’s general living circumstances. Ideals of a secure home of bodily comfort, and the creation of borders to protect them, significantly inform our social and spatial existences. Notions of home as personal space and as political territory are undeniably intertwined, and in urban areas throughout the world, the relationship between one and the "other" is also informed by spatial organisation strategies, led by economic and political decisions.

How do architecture and urbanism inform social infrastructures and cohesion? How do personal desires for the materiality of a home intersect with wider socio-political agendas and ideologies in the formation of urban landscapes?

Taking Palestine as its starting point and spanning examples from Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, Paris and the U.A.E., The Spacemakers offers a global measure of the immediate challenges of producing habitats in epicenters of social, economical or political tension.

The Spacemakers is taking place across two venues (Edinburgh College of Art – Tent Gallery and Sleeper). It is part of a biennial series of events produced by Beyond Borders Productions Ltd.

Related events: 

Jawad al Malhi – Artist talk at Stills
Saturday 31 July, 12:00 – 13:00
Exhibiting artist Jawad al Malhi discusses his work.
Free
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street,
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 1BP, www.stills.org, tel:  0131 622 6200

Taysir Batniji – Artist talk at Stills
Saturday 31 July, 13:30 – 14:30
Exhibiting artist Taysir Batniji discusses his work
Free
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street,
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 1BP, www.still.org, tel:  0131 622 6200

Tashweesh – Performance
Thursday 5th August, 16:00
A performance-response to the themes of The Spacemakers exhibition, by Tashweesh (Basel Abbas, boikutt and Ruanne Abou-Rahme). 
Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Art Space & Nature Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE, Free, book directly with The Delfina Foundation: 0207 233 5344 or info@delfinafoundation.com.  Limited free tickets available at the door.

Exhibition Tour
Friday 6th August, 13:00 
An introduction of The Spacemakers with Curator Eva Langret, The Delfina Foundation.
Free
Tent Gallery, Art Space & Nature Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE

Nahed Awwad – The Fourth Room (2005) and 5 Minutes from Home (2008)
Saturday 21 August, 16:45 
Two films by award-winning director Nahed Awwad
£6.90/£5.20 concessions, book directly with Edinburgh Filmhouse: 0131 228 2688 
Edinburgh Film House, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ

Elia Suleiman – The Time that Remains (2009)
Saturday 21 August, 18:30
A semi-biographical film by award-winning director Elia Suleiman
£6.90/£5.20 concessions – book directly with Edinburgh Filmhouse: 0131 228 2688 
Edinburgh Film House, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ

Accented Residency - Selected Artists

We would like to thank everybody who has expressed an interest in Accented Residency - British Council’s Creative Collaborations. The selection panel for 2010 edition of Accented Residency took place at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo on the 14th and 15th May.

The selection committee comprising William Wells (Director, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo), Livia Pancu (Residency Coordinator, Vector Association, Iasi), Eva Langret (Programme Manager, The Delfina Foundation, London), David Martin (Programme Manager, Spike Island, Bristol) and Oyku Ozsoy (Residency Coordinator, Platform Garanti CAC) looked at 160 applications and created a shortlist of 43 artists. Christine Tohme (Director, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) was unable to attend the meeting for personal reasons and the applications were later sent on to Ashkal Alwan for evaluation.

The final selection of eight applicants for Accented Residency 2010 was based on the match between their interest and the hosting institution's ongoing projects, the quality of their work as indicated by submitted visual documentation, their ability to demonstrate consistency and dedication in their artistic practice, and evidence that these applicants are at a critical juncture in the development of their practice, which the jury believe will be advanced by the residency.

As a process-oriented residency program, Accented creates a unique opportunities for artists and curators tp critically reflect on their practice, with no obligation to produce any work. It fosters research opportunities, supports artistic networking across partner institutions and their locations, and altogether increases mobility across the region. Finally it stimulates interaction between residents and hosting institutions, and various projects have flourished beyond the residency period.

The British Council's Creative Collaboration grant has generously supported Accented Residency for two successive years. However, given the immense interest in this program, the intention of partner institutions is always to raise further funding in order to continue this program and give residency opportunities for additional individuals in forthcoming years. Accented Residency will take place again next year, but with a more tailored focus for each participating institution, the details of which will be announced in the beginning of 2011.

The individuals selected for Accented Residency 2010 are:

Ashkal Alwan
Mohammad Allam, Egypt

Delfina Foundation
Tayfun Serttas, Turkey

Platform Garanti CAC
Iman Issa, Egypt
Alina Popa / Irina Gheorghe, Romania

Spike Island
Adnan Yildiz, Turkey

Townhouse Gallery
Jawad Al Malhi, Palestine

Vector Association
Ayman Ramadan, Egypt

Bidoun / Delfina Foundation Residency

Bidoun Magazine and The Delfina Foundation, with the support of the British Council are working in partnership to provide a unique residency opportunity in London. The successful applicant will be living and working in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt or the Palestinian Territories. During the residency, s/he will incubate ideas, conduct independent research, access new information, take advantage of UK cultural resources, and further his/her practice as a writer. The residency will be a platform for exploration and experimentation around the themes related to the writer’s research. Under the editorial direction of Bidoun, the resident will produce a written outcome to be published in a future issue of the magazine.

The residency will take place from February to March 2011 for six weeks.

The ideal candidate will be:

-       A writer, artist, curator, researcher or cultural practitioner wishing to strengthen his/her practice in writing or undertake specific research for written publication and;
-       currently living and working in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories.
-       emerging to mid-career, at least 25 years in age;
-       able to demonstrate how the experience of an international residency in London may benefit their practice and career development;
-       available during the time period. 

To apply, please download and submit an application form and additional material by email only, to: apply@delfinafoundation.com. In the subject line of your email, please specify BIDOUN OPEN CALL.

DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION FORM

Closing date for applications:  12.00 noon GMT, 30^th July 2010. The successful applicant will be notified in September 2010.

Open call: Syrian artists

Open call for Syrian artists: 6 week residency in London.

The Delfina Foundation, in collaboration with AllArtNow and the British Council, are offering a visual artist, aged between 25 and 40 years old, a six-week residency in London this summer. We are seeking applications from artists living and working in Syria. The selected artist will be provided with: 

•  one round-trip flight;
•  accommodation and a shared studio space in London;
•  an enabling bursary of £1,500 to cover the basic costs of living in London for six weeks; and
•  personal and professional support during the residency.

The ideal candidate:

•  will be an emerging to mid-career artist, seeking an opportunity to research and develop a creative idea;
• be able to explain how the experience of an international residency in London may benefit their practice and career development; and
•  be able to demonstrate basic English proficiency.
Artistic quality and development potential will be key selection criteria.

The residency will begin on the 27th July for six weeks.  The dates are fixed and not flexible.

Following the residency in London, the artist will be engaged in a future project with AllArtNow in Damascus.

APPLICATION PROCESS

To apply, please email apply @ delfinafoundation.co m < http://delfinafoundation.com>  for a form. Complete the basic information in this form and email it with the additional material to: apply @ delfinafoundation.com <http://delfinafoundation.com> . In the subject line of your email, please specify ‘Syria Residency’.

Closing date for applications:  15 June 2010. Interviews to be held in Damascus, on 16 or 17 June. 

A Firm Handshake

A Firm Handshake - Shuruq Harb
Non-linear lecture, Tuesday 22 June,18:30 - 19:30 at The Delfina Foundation 

Artist in residence Shuruq Harb asks: when do we start making an artwork?

Shuruq Harb's A Book of Signatures is a collection of 250 signatures from individuals named Mohammad living in Ramallah, Palestine. Drawing on their social network, each Mohammad introduced the artist to another Mohammad. The process of collecting signatures for Shuruq became an alternative way of navigating her hometown, providing a chance for improbable encounters and engaging new conversations. Tracing back to the inspirational ignition of A Book of Signatures, Shuruq Harb revisits historical events, re-examines artistic references, instigates a dialogue with other artists and ultimately finds herself making new works. 

Shuruq Harb works with photography, video and text. Her artistic practice currently focuses on documenting and collecting the ephemeral as a means of navigating city landscapes. Shuruq also works towards shifting ideas about context and reference in relation to art history. She is the co-founder of ArtTerritories an online platform dedicated to artists' interviews in the Middle East, which launches in September 2010. A Book of Signatures was exhibited at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham earlier this year (2010).

Free event, limited seats available. Please email rsvp@delfinafoundation.com

Open Call: Decolonizing Architecture

OPEN CALL - DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE RESIDENCY

The Delfina Foundation and decolonizing.ps (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman) are collaborating on a residency in Bethlehem, Palestine, at the Decolonizing Architecture studio.

More information about decolonizing.ps

The first residency took place in February-March 2010 with researcher Lorenzo Pezzani. The outcomes of this collaboration were showcased as part of a series of events, in partnership with Tate Modern. 

We are now inviting applications for an eight-week residency, starting July 2011, at the Decolonizing Architecture studio in Bethlehem, Palestine. The residency will offer intensive experience in practice-lead research and spatial activism within the conceptual frame of the studio, in one the world's most charged conflict areas.

We are seeking applications from UK-based artists and architects whose work involves critical spatial practice and who wish to carry out independent research and/or urban/territorial interventions. Applicants should have an inclination for collaborative work and the capacity of materializing ideas in a relatively short period time.

The residency will be structured around the following working methodologies: discussions, publications, exhibitions, seminar/lecture series and collaborative work. Participants will also visit project sites and various cities and villages of the West Bank. The program is set up with the support and collaboration with local universities and various local institutions and non-governmental organizations.

The selected applicant will be provided with:

·       Accommodation and shared studio space in Bethlehem for the duration of the residency;

·       International travel (a return ticket);

·       A local travel allowance;

·       Support in developing a research project within the framework of Decolonizing Architecture’s ongoing activities;

·       Opportunities to showcase the outcomes of the residency in London in 2011/12.

All other living costs must be met by the selected residents.

How to apply: by sending a CV and a 500 word (max) statement, detailing your interest and experience of critical spatial practice and how you would engage with the work of Decolonizing Architecture to apply@delfinafoundation.  In the subject line of your email, please specify ‘Decolonizing Architecture’. 

Alternatively, and although email applications are preferred, you can post information to us at:  The Delfina Foundation, 29 Catherine Place, Victoria, London SW1E 6DY.

Additional material can include text, images (low resolution jpg.) and moving image (quicktime or mpeg4).

Deadline: Applications should reach us no later than 15 August 2010, 5pm

The Equity is in the Circle

Artist talk: The Equity is in the Circle
Oraib Toukan
Thursday 20 May, 18:30

The Delfina Foundation
29 Catherine Place, London SW1E 6DY
Free

The Equity Is in the Circle (2007-2009) is a two-year corporate intervention led by former resident artist Oraib Toukan. It purports to auction off nation states in the Middle East, under a 100-year leasehold.  With an interest in both documentary and institutional critique, Oraib reaches out to real life experts for consultation on the steps needed to auction off this territory.  The proposal eventually results in the creation of a branded corporate initiative, entitled Nayruz Holdings.

Oraib Toukan works across media in photography, video, text, and installation, often weaving public interventions and subtle absurdity in to her practice. Thread throughout her work is a form of play and underlying irony in the situations she creates for herself and the viewer.  Oraib Toukan has a Masters in Fine Arts from Bard College, New York. Her work will soon be presented by Iniva at Rivington Place, as part of the 'Whose Map is it?' exhibition (2 June - 24 July 2010). Oraib is currently based in Berlin.

Limited seats available. To book your seat, email info@delfinafoundation.com

More information about Iniva

Workspaces

Workspaces
10 - 19 March 2010
A collaboration with Visiting Arts 

With participants in Artist-to-artist 2010: Doa Aly, Volkan Aslan, Ali Cherri, Robin Deacon, Delta Arts, Iz Oztat, and the Western Alliance.

What is an artist studio today? Artist-to-artist participants explore ideas around collaboration, mobility and site-specifity in relation to their working environments. 

The space where artists work often represents an interface for their professional practice, in which four components play an important role: social architecture, spatial architecture, peer exchange and cultural context. Workspaces proposes to look at artists’ relationships to their working environment, considered both in a spatial and interpersonal sense.

How are artistic workspaces reshaped by international mobility? How does the place where one lives influences one’s practice? Have identification and contextualization remained the main two modes through which artists relate to the place where they live and work? How do international artistic networks alter artists’ perception of their immediate environment? How can we update the late 20^th century fantasy of an ultra-mobile artistic community, who envisions the ‘world as its studio’, in the light of a new geo-political and environmental order? How are artistic practices, networks and support structures responding to this change?

Events

Doa Aly in conversation with Eline van der Vlist
10 March, 19:00 - 20:00 

Doa Aly, recent video works
A Tress of Hair (2008) and The Girl in Splendid Walking (2009) 
10 - 12 March, 10:00 -18:00 

Ali Cherri, recent video works
Un Cercle Autour du Soleil (2005), Slippage (2007) and Untitled (2006)
15 - 17 March, 10:00 -18:00 

A dialogue between Ali Cherri and Robin Deacon
16 March, 19:00 - 20:00, Arts Bar & Cafe, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB

URGENCY / AGENCY: a publication by The Western Alliance, Volkan Aslan & Iz Oztat
Live production day: 18 March, 10:00 - 18:00 
Presentation/Performance: 18 March, 18:00 - 20:00 
Editions on show: 19 March, 10:00 - 18:00

Notional Studio - round table discussion 
Hosted by Emma Smith and Oliver Sumner of Delta Arts, with all Artist-to-artist participants and more. 
19 March, 18.30 - 20:00, followed by drinks reception. 

All events are taking place at The Delfina Foundation (unless otherwise stated) 
All events are free. Limited capacity, early rsvp essential: info@delfinafoundation.com

Visiting Art's Artist-to-artist enables artists from the UK to invite artists from overseas for up to 2 weeks.  The selected overseas artist will spend a week with the UK artist, visiting their studio, meeting key contacts, networking and exchanging ideas. More information about Artist-to-artist.

Artists Biographies:

Doa Ali (Egypt) is interested in society's economy of role-play, the use of different types of behaviour and how these vary depending on different situations and contexts. Aly has recently taken part in a number of group shows such as Port City at the Arnolfini Museum, Bristol, UK; Recognise at the Contemporary Art Forum, London, UK; Dessins Projets at l’Appartement 22 in Rabat, Morocco. In 2006 and 2007 she participated in the 7th Dakar Biennial, Senegal; Snap Judgements at the International Center of Photography in New York, and The Maghreb Connection at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.

Volkan Aslan (Turkey) is an artist and curator, who, in 2008, founded 5533 along with Nancy Atakan and Marcus Graf, an independent space for research, discussion and exhibition of contemporary art. Located in a former shop in Istanbul Textile Trader’s Market, 5533 turns a former business environment into a contact zone where visitors experience various artistic forms in a non exclusive, non-elitist atmosphere.

Ali Cherri (Lebanon) is a graduate in Graphic Design from the American University in Beirut (2000) and completed his Masters in Performing Arts at DasArts (Amsterdam). He designed the stage set for 'Biokhraphia' by Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué and  (2002) and collaborated with Rabih on the installation 'I Feel A Great Desire To Meet The Masses Once Again'. He presented "Give me a body then" (performance, 2005) as part of Diskurs 05, Giessen, Germany and Home Works III, Beirut (2005). His work was screened as part of a Tate Modern 'In Focus', included in 'Out of Beirut', Modern Art Oxford (2006) and 'Fantasy for Allan Kaprow' at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, a show that paid homage to Kaprow through a series of re-interpretations.

Robin Deacon (UK) is an artist, writer and filmmaker. His work has included a series of performed lectures that explore journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice. His works have been presented in the UK and internationally at venues such as; The ICA, London (1996), The Young Vic Theatre (2000), Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (2006) and Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna (2007). Recent projects include, 'A Portrait of Stuart Sherman' (Film/Installation), Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool (2010) and 'Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman (Spaghetti Spectacle)', Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York. >

Iz Oztat (Turkey) explores how the notion of “sacred∗” materializes and shapes the body, memory, time and space. In her recent work, she used pre-modern tools and technologies as her departure point to reflect on contemporary processes of social engineering, homogenization and control. Her solo shows include Read/ OKU at PiST, Istanbul (2008), Love It or Leave It, Ohio (2005) and Nothing Disappears Without a Trace, Ohio (2004). Iz is the co-founder of cura bodrum residency in Mugla with Emincan Alemdaroglu, in the context of which she participated in unitednationsplaza, Mexico, Resartis General Meeting, Amsterdam, Prishtina Contemporary Art Library Workshop, Kosovo and Cairo Residency Symposium.

Delta Arts (UK) was formed in 2008, by Emma Smith and Oliver Sumner, as a practice to initiate projects with others. Delta Art’s activities include art practice, interaction and research. Past projects have included rural residentials with young offenders and a mobile allotment project with local residents.

The Western Alliance (UK) is made up of 8 artists / activators who are based in the South-West of England.The Western Alliance is made up of eight artists/activators in the South West.  Their current project URGENCY/AGENCY has beeng developed by members Paul Carter, Patrick Lowry, Steven Paige, Alison Sharkey, Oliver Sutherland, Rebecca Weeks and Alexandra Zierle.

Magic of Persia Residency awarded to Ala Dehghan

The Delfina Foundation and Magic of Persia are pleased to announce that Al Dehghan has been awarded the 2010 Magic of Persia Residency. 

Working in a very personal realm, Ala Dehghan's (b. 1982) small scale, mixed media drawings document her everyday rapport to the experiences that affect her mind and her life. Ala Dehghan graduated from Tehran University with an MA in Painting. She has recently exhibited at Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris), Silk Road Gallery (Tehran), and currently lives and works in Karaj, Iran.

Artist to artist 2010

Visiting Arts, in partnership with The Delfina Foundation, is delighted to announce the launch of Artist to Artist International 2010. Now in its sixth year, the scheme enables artists from the UK to invite artists from overseas for up to 2 weeks.  The selected overseas artist will spend a week with the UK artist, visiting their studio, meeting key contacts, networking and exchanging ideas. Participants will spend a week together from 8- 21st March 2010

The selected artists for 2010:

• Ali Cherri  will travel from Beirut, Lebanon  to work with London based visual and performance artist Robin Deacon 

• Delta Arts Collective will host Egypt based artist Doa Aly in Portsmouth 

• Visual Artists Volkan Aslan and Iz Oztat will make the same journey from Istanbul, spending time with Western Alliance members Rebecca Weeks and Steven Paige between, sharing time between London and Cornwall. 

• Christodoulos Panayiotou  will travel from Limassol, Cyprus to work with Celine Condorelli in London. 

Artist to Artist provides a unique opportunity to bring together pairs of artists to initiate dialogues across international borders. The structure of the programme is tailored by the artists themselves and puts the emphasis firmly on research and the exchange of ideas rather than production.
 
Artist to Artist is supported by Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

More information about Visiting Arts

Decolonizing Architecture Residency

The Delfina Foundation and Decolonizing Architecture are collaborating on a residency in Bethlehem, at the Decolonizing Architecture studio. Lorenzo Pezzani will be the first practitioner to take part in this project. The residency will be an opportunity for Lorenzo to gain intensive experience in practice lead research and spatial activism, within the conceptual frame of the studio, in one the world's most charged conflict areas.

A collaboration between architects Eyal Weizman, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Decolonizing Architecture arose from a need to open up an 'arena of speculation' about the future of Palestine, and to encourage both imaginative and practical planning about the areas that already have or will be liberated from direct Israeli control. The work of Decolonising Architecture has been exhibited internationally, including recent exhibitions at Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles (BOZAR, 2009), the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2008), the 11th Istanbul Biennale (2009) and the Rotterdam International Biennale of Architecture (2009). More information about Decolonizing Architecture

Lorenzo Pezzani is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University’s Centre for Research Architecture. His practice-based research looks at how the afterlife of various buildings, monuments, migrant bodies and images could enhance, through profanation, the production of a new postcolonial ecology. 

Open Call

OPEN CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, CURATORS AND WRITERS

The Delfina Foundation is offering an 8-week residency in London to a visual artist, curator or writer from the following countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Egypt.

The dates of the residency are from 22nd March to 16th May 2010. The dates are fixed and non-changeable.

The selected resident will be provided with:

- accommodation at Delfina Foundation;
- an enabling bursary / allowance to contribute towards costs of living in London;
- personal and professional support during the residency; and
- bespoke opportunities for professional development.

The resident must cover his/her international travel and their personal living costs such as mobile phone usage, materials, etc.

The ideal candidate will be: 

- living and working in the North Africa countries as defined above;
- emerging to mid-career, at least 25 years in age;
- able to demonstrate how the experience of an international residency in London may benefit their practice and career development;
- able to demonstrate basic English proficiency;
- available during the time period. 

Demonstrable artistic quality and development potential will be key assessment criteria. 

Application process

To apply, please download an application form:

(Select FREE DOWNLOAD, wait 60 seconds, and then select FREE DOWNLOAD again)

Please submit the application form and additional material by email only, to: info@delfinafoundation.com. In the subject line of your email, please specify OPEN CALL.

Closing date for applications: 12.00 noon GMT, 18th January 2010.

The selected resident will be notified at the end of January 2010.