Airport 03 Call for Applications

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 AiR_PORT 03  - Forum  Stadtpark Artists-in-Residence-Program 2003

Working Grant : working grants for artists whose work takes an interdisciplinary  
approach; term of one to three months with active integration in the Tuesday 
Series (regularly scheduled talks/events), participation in workshops with local 
artists, discussions with students, as well as a concluding presentation.
Project Grant : focused on conceiving, organizing and carrying out ventures of
special interest and projects involving guests from Austria and abroad in Forum
Stadtpark. A total of eight grants will be awarded.
The grants are in the amount of 872 Euros per month and include the use of the
technical infrastructure (audio studio and video editing equipment, etc.) and facilities
(seminar room/club/library/archive), the option of living in a Forum Stadtpark guest
apartment (or an alternative residential arrangement or receiving an additional 218
Euros per month), as well as a project budget depending on the respective
proposal and the institution's available financial means. The choice of recipients is
made by an independent jury; the decision regarding the project budget is made by
the Forum Stadtpark's management.
Formats : DIN A4, max. 20 pages, bound; biography: DIN A4, max. 3 pages; when
submitting media (max. 1 medium): CD-ROM (Mac- or PC-compatible) or video
(VHS), format clearly labeled, index on an accompanying sheet.
Submit applications with a time budget and working plan as well as an estimate of
the project's cost by November 15, 2002 to: Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, A-8010
Graz, Austria, or via mail to: forum at mur.at.

Forum Stadtpark Graz is an interdisciplinary laboratory and venue for the
presentation of visual art, new media, literature, architecture, photography, video,
theory and theater. The Forum is a 40-year-old institution that has played a key role
in postwar artistic and cultural developments in Austria. Having established itself in
the Graz cultural scene, the Forum has succeeded - thanks to its organizational
structure and the substance of its undertakings - in repeatedly renewing and
rejuvenating itself, and has come to constitute the paradox of a self-organized
cultural institution - simultaneously its most unique feature and its strength. The
Forum offers a focused and ambitious program on contemporary discourses in the
international artistic and cultural scene that is made available to a broad public in
exhibitions, speeches and workshops. Thus, the Forum as a venue for dialogue
also has a specific function for Graz, in that the speakers who have their say here
are those individuals operating at the interfaces of leading-edge developments. With
its AiR_port Artists-in-Residence program (in cooperation with Graz 2003), Forum
Stadtpark has been able to more strongly position itself as a vital node within a
young European network of theoretically grounded artistic production and
discussion.