Call for applications: AOI Sonic Residencies in SA

The project is set to take place over a period of four weeks this year and in 2020. The call is intended for musicians, DJs, artists, composers, writers, performers, producers, designers, filmmakers, broadcasters, theorists and critical thinkers.

The National Sonic Residencies are open to individuals who reside in South Africa while the International Sonic Residencies are open to applicants from other African countries and those who have been living on the continent for at least six months.

Interested individuals should submit a single PDF file with all the information specified in the ‘How to Apply’ section via this link.

Applications should be sent to roosh@sun.ac.za with the following subject line: AOI SONIC RESIDENCY APPLICATION. The attention should read as follows: AOI General Manager.

The application deadline is 21 January.

AOI Sonic Residency will accept applications from emerging and mid-career creative professionals who are either formally trained in their respective disciplines or self-taught.

“Artists in residence are encouraged to incorporate into their Sonic Residency conceptual frameworks which explore pan-African audio cultures, philosophies, aesthetics and languages,” the call reads. “Sonic Residencies support art’s role in shifting how and under what conditions knowledge is produced, communicated and archived in societies reflecting African worlds.”

Requirements

• Artists will be required to present a colloquium to the Stellenbosch University broader research community in the first week of their residency.
• Artists are required to create a performative or dialogical public event, off-campus in the last week of their month-long Sonic Residency.
• Artists in residence will receive a research production grant to realise their live public event, which can take the form of presentation, performance, publication, recording, installation, exhibition, intervention, conversation or provocation, to name a few modes of contemporary artistic practice.
• Successful applicants will have access to a modest studio space and Stellenbosch University library facilities and research archives.

The proposed dates for AOI Sonic Residencies are as follows:

• April/May 2019
• July/August 2019
• October/November 2019
• February/March 2020

The value of National Sonic Residency and International Sonic Residency is R36 000 ($2 600) and R46 000 respectively.

About AOI Sonic Residency

The AOI Sonic Residency programme creates a space for public conversations and experimental events interventions. Funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, the residency is an intensive and experimental research programme that offers freedom of creativity and an interdisciplinary environment for artists.

For more information about this call, contact the programme director at juliar@sun.ac.za or visit the official call here.