APPEL A CANDIDATURE – RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION RESIDENCY 2022-2023 CITY OF SAINT-MAXIMIN-LA-SAINTE-BAUME AGGLOMERATION COMMUNITY OF GREEN PROVENCE

PROJECT & CONTEXT

Created in 2014, located in a green setting in the heart of Provence Verte, the contemporary art center of Châteauvert offers two exhibitions a year, a cycle of conferences and/or events related to the exhibitions as well as residence times. Located in a park of more than 9 hectares, the contemporary art center of Châteauvert is surrounded by a garden of sculptures whose genesis dates back some thirty years. The contemporary art center has been offering artist residencies for 2018.

It has been worn since 2015 by the Provence Verte Agglomeration Community.

With an area of 952 km², the Provence Verte Agglomeration Community includes 28 municipalities representing a population of 105.000 people around. Rural territory, the very name of Provence Verte alone carries meaning and values.

Châteauvert is a village of 140 inhabitants located north of St-Maximin-la Sainte-Baume and Brignoles, between fields, vineyards and forests.

Saint-Maximin spreads out at the foot of the Massif de la Sainte-Baume, in the basin of an ancient dry lake. The city is located equidistant from the first Alpine foothills and the sea and has 16.500 habitants.

The residency offered by the Châteauvert contemporary art center in partnership with the town of St-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and the Martin Bidouré social and cultural center in 2022 and 2023 is a mediation residence, research and production based on a rehabilitation project for Place Martin Bidouré in St-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.

A set of unsanitary buildings, partly consolidated by ipn – which seem to be a contemporary echo of the buttresses of the city’s gothic basilica – , will then be destroyed before giving way to a new urban project.

The artist is invited to imagine a project that could take place in this public space using in part, and in any way, building destruction materials, materials perceived here as a memory of a living place very frequented by the inhabitants of the district. The artist will thus place himself in the tradition of the reuse, dear to the history of art since Antiquity, while paying particular attention to the essential role of artistic creation in raising awareness and implementing concrete solutions for sustainable development.

Upstream work will be set up by the mediation team of the contemporary art center with the users of the Martin Bidouré social and cultural center located on this square..

The residence 2022 will give rise to two public meetings to present the project : in St-Maximin and Châteauvert. The completed project will be returned in June 2023 in St-Maximin as well as in Châteauvert.

TERM & SCHEDULE

2022 : 5 weeks – From September until the end of September, in continuous or not (except November)

2023 : 5 weeks – From the beginning of the year 2023 and until May – June, in continuous or not

Return in June 2023

RECEPTION CONDITIONS

• Workshop of 30 m2 in Châteauvert
• Furnished and equipped accommodation in Châteauvert
• 2022 :

Grant on research invoice up to 3.000 € or : 1.500 € of fees, 1.000 € for running workshops with residents, 500 € travel expenses

• 2023 :

Grant on research invoice up to 3.000 € or : 1.500 € of fees, 1.000 € for running workshops with residents, 500 € travel expenses

Production grant on invoice of 2.000 €

The artist is autonomous ; he is invited to provide his tools.

It should be noted that it is necessary to have a personal vehicle, Châteauvert being located in a rural area.

Families are welcome. The team of the Center d'Art Contemporain de Châteauvert will be attentive to providing the artist with possible solutions for custody or registration at the nearest schools..

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

A residence contract will be drawn up, specifying the commitments of each of the parties with a provisional schedule.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Professional artists residing in Europe engaged in a process of contemporary and ecological creation, working in the field of visual arts by favoring notions of multidisciplinarity and wishing to pursue their research and produce new works.

The jury will pay particular attention to the link between the project and the artistic and cultural education workshops for residents..

The residency is continuous. The artist will participate during this time in the activities of the contemporary art center.

The artist will open his studio for visits to professionals, of inhabitants and a possible school public.

APPLICATION FILE

A single document in pdf format recorded as follows last name First Name presenting :

• First page : Last name First Name / Email address and telephone
• Note of intent in French, maximum 1 page, A4 format, demonstrating the artist's interest in the approach of this residency
• Proposal for workshops with the inhabitants in connection with the note of intent, maximum 1 page, A4 format
• Curriculum-Life
• Portfolio or 20 Visuals of works
• Texts and press articles, maximum 4 pages

The total size of the file must be 8 Mo maximum. Please do not use download platforms that allow you to exceed this weight.

The application file must be sent only by email to lmarchi@caprovenceverte.fr.

DEADLINE : 15 May 2022

The selection of the resident will be done in May 2022. Each candidate will receive a response no later than 27 May 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT

More information : Lydie Marchi, manager of the contemporary art center of Châteauvert – lmarchi@caprovenceverte.fr / 06 33 27 43 61.