09 Aug, 2016
AKADEMİE SCHLOSS SOLİTUDE
Deadline for all applications:
September 1, 2016, 12 p.m. CET/MEZ.
wimmelforschung@akademie-solitude.de
www.akademie-solitude.de/en/
The WimmelResearch-Fellowship will be awarded as part of a joint project between Robert Bosch GmbH, Akademie Schloss Solitude andWimmelforschung.
Artists from the disciplines of performing arts, visual arts, architecture, design, literature, and time-based media are invited to apply until September 1, 2016.
The collaboration is based on the development of Platform 12, an experimental space designed by the artistic duo Wimmelforschung in collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH as part of Bosch’s new center for research and advance engineering. The platform serves as a creative hub and room for reflection as well as communication for all researchers. It offers an environment that allows its employees to work independently from the organizational structure of the company. As an essential feature, Platform 12 contains a permanent collaboration with Akademie Schloss Solitude, in the framework of which artists of various disciplines intervene into the company’s structure and organization as indirect observers and instigators from outside.
The purpose of the fellowship is to support encounters as well as interdisciplinary exchange in the context of science, economy and art. The collaboration’s aim is not the production of a specific artistic work, but the encounter and the process of intercommunication itself. The central aim of Platform 12 is the creation of a variable and open setting in which artists and employees are working simultaneously on their projects, encounter one another and exchange ideas. The concept intends for the artist to be present at Platform 12 for the entire duration of the fellowship. She or he should contribute to the platform with her or his own extrinsic artistic reflections and aesthetic settings vis-à-vis the company. These can be constructed visually, conceptually, or in interactive or performative form. The artistic works can alter the space and/or deal with the working practices of the employees.
A detailed interview about Platform 12 with Birgit Thoben, Senior Innovation Manager of Robert Bosch GmbH, Wimmelforschung and Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff, coordinator of the art, science & business program at Akademie Schloss Solitude, can be found here.
Further information on the call for submission, requirements, and selection procedure can be accessed here.
The next fellowship will be awarded from October 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. The deadline for all applications is September 1, 2016, 12 p.m. CET/MEZ.
For further inquiries: wimmelforschung@akademie-solitude.de.