OPEN CALL: veículoSUR 2020 - international itinerary residency Application deadline: March 20, 2020, 23:59h

OPEN CALL: veículoSUR 2020 – international itinerary residency
Application deadline: March 20, 2020, 23:59h

veículoSUR is a residency that travels internationally and serves the purpose of artistic
networking. It promotes exchange and encounters between artists and cultural
practitioners from six different countries – Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, France, Germany
and Finland – and facilitates synergies between professional and emerging artists who
explore different forms of artistic practice and production together through dialogue,
collaboration and exchange.

During its second edition in 2020, the aim of veículoSUR is to empower artists and
cultural practitioners who perceive themselves as "strange bodies" in their practice, to
enable them to acknowledge differences and cultural diversity and to understand a
"strange body" as one that questions normativity and embodies other narratives. A
porous body that was marginalized, folklorized, dehumanized, attacked, made
invisible, colonized and is subjected to a structure that makes it an object.

The residency proposes displacement as a format, both in terms of artistic creation
and ideological mobility. The continuous shift of context invites the participants to
question and rethink their own practice based on a diverse dialogue.

The open call is aimed at artists and cultural practitioners based in Uruguay
(nationwide), Chile (nationwide), Brazil (São Paulo/Estado), France (Lyon, Bourges,
Marseille and the belonging regions), Germany (München) and Finland (nationwide).
The working language will be decided with the working group; the use of multiple
languages is possible.

We are looking for artists and cultural practitioners

   •   whose main research topic or tool is the body, with a multidisciplinary approach
       to the topic of “strange bodies and conflict of norms”, which the residency
       evolves around.

•   from different disciplines who are linked to a network in their field and work
       together with other cultural agents.
   •   who promote collective and interdisciplinary work and consider the experience
       of working together an important part of the creative process. Our platform aims
       to reflect and question conventional systems of art production that strive for a
       final product.
   •   who, in their practice, address local urgencies, who shift and provoke, whose
       work questions regulations and formats.
   •   who see autonomy as a way of working - although the group's programme in
       each country gives a thematic, conceptual and local impulse to the group, the
       participants themselves are responsible for developing a methodology to work
       together that may or may not connect the different perspectives.

veículoSUR offers

   •   Transfer from the country of residence to the countries that are part of the
       itinerary
   •   Transfer between the countries on the itinerary
   •   Accommodation in all countries on the itinerary
   •   Catering or per diems in all countries on the itinerary
   •   Scholarship in the amount of 2500 Euro for the entire travel time
   •   Transfer within each country
   •   Working space and material in all countries on the itinerary

Depending on the conditions in each country, the facilities might be shared.
The participants of Uruguay, Chile, Brazil and Finland will need to travel to and from
the capital on their own expenses.

Residency schedule

Montevideo, Uruguay: 18 - 29 May 2020
Santiago, Chile: 1 - 12 June 2020
São Paulo, Brazil: 15 - 26 June 2020
Bourges, France: 28 September - 9 October 2020
Munich, Germany: 12 - 30 October 2020
Helsinki, Finland: 2 - 27 November 2020

Who can apply

The applicants must be over 18 years old and based in Uruguay (Montevideo), Chile
(nationwide), Brazil (State of São Paulo), France (nationwide), Germany (Munich) or
Finland (nationwide).

The participants are required to

   •   participate in all dates, programme and activities in the respective countries
       from May 18-June 26, 2020 and September 28-November 27, 2020.
   •   participate in the process openings taking place in the respective countries.
   •   travel with a valid passport and take care of their own visa arrangements if
       necessary.
   •   arrange for a travel insurance and cover their personal medical expenses
   •   provide written feedback to the organisation team within two months after the
       end of the residency, which can also be accompanied by audiovisual and/or
       photographic recordings.
   •   create a space for exchange about the residency experience in their country,
       with artists, institutions or others, in order to strengthen the network and the
       project.

How to apply

Applications should be sent by e-mail to info@veiculosur.com and include the
following documents:

   1. One document titled “Call veículoSUR 2020 + full name + country you are
      based in“. The document must be submitted in PDF format, with a maximum
      size of 3 MB with the file name "FULL NAME_VEICULOSUR2020" and answer
      the following questions:

   •   What is your background / biography? (maximum 2 pages)
   •   How does the topic of "strange bodies and conflict of norms" affect your
       practice? (maximum 1 page)
   •   What urgencies are you facing today, how do they affect your work processes,
       and what strategies or ways do you see to counter them? (maximum 1 page)
   •   What potential would this international itinerant platform have for you?
       (maximum 1 page)
   •   What impact could the project have on your local network and which persons
       or movements would you indicate as a possible point in the programme for the
       veículoSUR residency in your country? (maximum 1 page)

2. Link to a work and/or material of maximum 5 MB in the form of photos, videos, texts
or other formats.

The application period is from February 20th-March 20th at 23h59. No applications
will be accepted after this deadline.

Applications can be sent in the following languages:
  • from Uruguay: Spanish
  • from Chile: Spanish
   •   from Brazil: Portugues
   •   from France: French
   •   from Finland: English, Spanish
   •   from Germany: German, English

If you have any questions, please contact us by email: info@veiculosur.com

Selection process:

The selection of the participants will take place in two phases and will be made by a
team of curators in each country.

1. Preselection: 5 applicants per country will be selected and notified by email.
2. Selection: A personal interview will be conducted with each of the pre-selected
applicants.
3. One applicant per country will be chosen and notified.

The results of the selection will be announced on Monday March, 30th.

About veículoSUR

veículoSUR was launched in 2014, when the development and elaboration of the
itinerant residency format started in the context of the residency Movimiento Sur
(Chile). In 2018, the first edition took place, in which five artists travelled through five
countries over a period of three months, taking part in a diverse programme in the
respective places that evolved around the themes of collective and scenic practice. In

2020, a team of curators organizes and enables the realization of the project in the
respective countries: Thais Ushirobira (Brazil), Andrea Arobba (Uruguay), David
Muñoz (Finland), Mario Lopes (Germany), Maelys Meyer (France) and Marcela Olate
(Chile).

veículoSUR proposes a transdisciplinary and transregional platform that opens space
for training, production, artistic action and for the discussion of personal and collective
emergencies. It explores how conflicts of norms and strangeness ascribed to certain
bodies shape the way we form relationships and limit our ability to survive. As an
itinerant residency it creates spaces in which aesthetic and political strategies as well
as practices of autonomy and resistance can be shared, studied and connected.

veículoSUR addresses questions such as: How can art be created in economically
and politically complicated times, in places with great social tensions? Which
movements and actions make the insurgency of other voices audible that were
previously silenced? What kind of art do artists and collectives produce that escape
the so-called "centre" and in what ways do they produce? What discourses do they
address? What is the history at stake?

veículoSUR is very grateful for the cooperation and support of an international network
of institutions based in all the participating countries: INAE/ Instituto de artes escénicas
(Uruguay), EAC /Espacio de arte contemporáneo (Uruguay), GEN/ Centro de artes y
ciencias, CasaAlmargen (Uruguay), Iberescena (veiculoSUR versión Chile), SESC
(Brazil),Goethe-Institut São Paulo (Brazil), Emmetrop (France), NTH8 (France),
Kulturreferat Munich (Germany), Tanztendenz (Germany), Institut Français de Munich
(Germany), Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival (Finland), HIAP (Finland) and
the Embassy of Brazil (Finland).