transmediale announces What Stays – Archiving Care with three online-residencies exploring digital counter-archives and histories. From April, the film programme remote. response. request. I. will be open for in person visits.
In partnership with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Academy of Arts and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia, transmediale is pleased to announce What Stays – Archiving Care. The project launches with an open call for three digital residencies for international artists whose work explores digital counter-archives and the role of technology in opening up alternative histories and memories.
Challenging records, reclaiming narratives, or writing differences into public accounts, requires defiance, imagination, and the bringing together of oppositional experiences and knowledge. Often incomplete and unstable, archives have become spaces where accounts of histories are contested and expanded through acts of resistance and refusal. Examining the gaps, omissions, and the politics of metadata, What Stays – Archiving Care explores how counter-archives can be built through gestures of care, opening up alternative histories, narratives, and stories. The project explores how objects, landscapes, built environments, and bodies can be rethought through oral traditions, archival tools, and experimental digital practices. Asking what role more-than-human agents have in shaping new systems of knowledge and understandings of civilisation, culture, and nature What Stays – Archiving Care highlights artistic, speculative, and uncooperative practices that change perceptions of pasts and futures.
Artists working with digital technologies, counter histories and experimental archival formats are invited to apply for a three month online residency. Each resident is awarded €3,000 and can work remotely. The completed work will be presented online and in events in the year-long programme of the project partners.
Key Dates
Open call date: 6 April 2021
Closing date for call: 4 May 2021
Jury
The artists for the residency are selected by a joint jury of:
Helen Pritchard, Associate Professor in Queer Feminist Technoscience and Digital Design, University of Plymouth
Oulimata Gueye, Curator and Art Critic
Clara Herrmann, Programme Director of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Markus Huber, Director, Goethe-Institut Slovakia
Nora O Murchú, Artistic Director, transmediale festival, Berlin
remote. response. request. I. will be presented from 10 April for four weeks in transmediale studio. Opening hours are from Wednesday to Sunday, 15.00 to 21.00. For more information on how to visit the transmediale studio in accordance to the current government regulations around the pandemic, please go to the transmediale website .
transmediale is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. A full list of partners and supporters can be found here.