Residency at ZKU
Artists, scholars and practitioners can apply for a residency at ZKU. Their practice and research should relate to one of the topical themes provided by ZKU. Both major themes that change biannually and ongoing long-term topics will be announced on the ZKU website.
There are two different ways of applying to become a ZKU fellow: through the Open Call and through our partner organisations. Cooperation with a number of partners is underway and will be published soon. The Open Call is periodically renewed and allows interested artists, scholars or practitioners to approach ZKU directly with proposals and ideas.
Upcoming deadline: March 31st, 2012.
Individual Support. Space. Collaborative and Networking Possibilities.
In addition to studio work, the main focus of the ZKU residency program is the cross-disciplinary exchange between artists, scholars and practitioners, as well as the outcomes of their individual and collaborative work that may include projects, symposia and exhibitions according to topic themes. We expect that these interdisciplinary exchanges at the international and local levels will foster both short and long-term ties.
For this purpose, ZKU will offer fellows optimal working and communication structures. Various spaces will be available for production, exhibiting, exchange and leisure, including the individual apartments, the open space, the communal kitchen, the library and conference space, the basement and workshop spaces, the roofed terrace, the surrounding park, local municipal workshops in the immediate neighborhood for specialized productions and installations can be realized.
Practice of Residency
ZKU aims at providing the participants with access to resources that will enable them to develop and challenge their ideas and working methods during the period of their residency. Fellows will be encouraged to present their work and ideas at the beginning (e.g. a semi-public ‘Jour Fixe‘) and towards the end of their stay, allowing a chosen public to share their thoughts. .Presentations can be made individually or as part of a symposium or exhibition taking place in and around ZKU, and use a range of formats.
Researchers and artists will also have the chance to publish their work in a regular journal and to discuss their ideas with other professionals from the ZKU network during individual studio visits, informal meetings and open discussions. Parallel to individual activities ZKU will encourage involvement in external exhibition projects initiated by ZKU and their partners. The team of ZKU will keep the residents updated on events happening in the city and will support them in understanding the milieu that they are working and living in.
ZKU partners help establish our work on a broad, interdisciplinary, and heterogeneous footing. In the international context, ZKU endeavours to cooperate with established institutions. At the local level, it works with both institutional and less formally constituted parties, such as neighbourhood initiatives and art projects. Cooperation with a number of the partners is currently underway.