We have selected a few galleries and funding bodies calling for submissions for Art Awards, Artist Engagements, Grants, Public Art, Residency Programs, Exhibition Proposals, and more. Enjoy, and good luck!
Experimental Choreographic Residency 2023 recipient
Presented by Sydney's Performance Space, Australia's leading organisation for the development and presentation of experimental art, and Critical Path, Australia's leading centre for choreographic enquiry, research, and development; the Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) supports the development of innovative, bold and experimental approaches to choreography with a two-week residency at Critical Path, Darling Point NSW 2027, as well as financial, production, technical, and creative support from both organisations.
The 2023 ECR recipient is Devika Bilimoria. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Bilimoria is a multi-disciplinary artist working across performance, video photography, and installation. They utilise chance, participation, and practices of listening to reveal socio-cultural formations of separateness, hierarchies, and gesture. Trained in the South Indian dance form Bharatanatyam, as well as Media Studies at RMIT University and Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne, Bilimoria creates works that are shared in galleries, on stages and in digital and site-specific contexts, with an aim to reorient what is given and stimulate unexpected encounters and temporalities.
Bilimoria held their residency in the Drill Hall, Critical Path, from 11 to 21 April 2023, collaborating with a number of POC artists, developing a new work based on the theme of ‘Gesture-share’ – a large-scale live performance installation that surges their practice-based research of chance and ritual, through the framework of a task-based game with tactile material engagement.
The work built on Bilimoria's recent durational performance installation ‘Offerings’ and explores randomisation as a key choreographic agent to disorient, jumble, and reveal embodied hierarchies and social prescriptions of dominant worshipping patterns archived within the artists’ bodies – to reimagine what is given.
“I use chance-based methods such as randomisation, event scores, improvisation, gravity, and the entropy of duration to facilitate an explicit and implicit witnessing of shifts within the performing body. This experimental practice of indeterminacy, play and disorientation creates an unorthodox approach not only to choreography but to the access of cultural and historic embodiments that shimmer in a diaspora body, while embracing the absurdity and failure of the unknown through chance methods.” – Devika Bilimoria.
Jane Grealy wins Dobell Drawing Prize #23
The biennial Dobell Drawing Prize celebrates technique, innovation, and expanded drawing practices. The $30,000 acquisitive prize is presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice. Winning works are entered into the National Art School Collection, built over the past 120 years.
Recently Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist Jane Grealy was announced the winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize #23 for her pastel on paper work Maria's Garden, Scheme C.
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