Call for applications: Mophradat co-production grant

The programme supports projects which involve art practitioners who collaborate to identify a common resource or interest important to their work and suggest ways to share or develop it. The programme’s overall purpose is to incite fruitful conversations, encourage the development of custom protocols for collaboration and drive new artistic experiments.

The grant is worth up to $5 000. Mophradat will release funds in a two-stage process: 80 percent when the grant agreement is signed and the remaining 20 percent when the project is completed.

Interested individuals, collaborations or collectives can apply for funding to undertake the following activities:

• Pursue threads of research.
• Stage an event.
• Make new work.
• Publish.
• Travel.
• Take part in a residency or workshop.
• Organise meetings and gatherings.
• Present an exhibition or performance.

Eligibility

Applicants must be artists, researchers and cultural actors from or living in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

To be considered, the application/project should:

• Be complete (all documents requested should be submitted).
• Be related to a field of contemporary arts (all disciplines are welcome).
• Be for a contemporary art activity or project by artists or other arts practitioners from or living in the Arab world, or be relevant to the region.
• Be realised by professional artists and/or other arts practitioners (such as curators, critics, writers, etc.) who have been active in their field for several years.
• Be ambitious and demonstrate an awareness of artistic concerns.
• Involve no commercial activity or organisation.
• Be devoid of any intention to promote intolerance, violence, patriarchal worldviews or any form of discrimination based on ability, age, gender, nationality, origin, race, religion or sexuality.
• Not work against Mophradat’s mission and values, which are highlighted here.

Note:

• The proposal must be achievable and completed within 12 months of the grant's submission deadline.
• Production and post-production for feature films are not eligible.
• Applications to attend degree-based study programmes (such as MAs or PhDs) are out of the grant programme’s scope and will not be considered.
• Aiming for balanced professional relationships, Mophradat does not support applications to cover the costs and fees of artists invited to run a workshop, administer or curate projects in Europe or North America that fall under the categories of (temporary) employment in those contexts and should be covered by those hosts’ institutional budgets.

"This programme is specially directed to those inventing new forms of creating and sharing arts knowledge with others and for those aiming to question the current arts making paradigm," Mophradat said.

Interested individuals can access the application form here.

The application deadlines are 1 April and 1 October. 

View the original call here.