The Banff Centre – Visual Arts: Now accepting applications

Thematic Residencies

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02 Master Class: AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans
Program dates: May 10 – June 18, 2010
Application deadline: January 25, 2010

This master class revisits the sixties notion of the “free school” to construct an experiment in education and collaboration. Inspired by faerie circles, tea parties, queer rituals, group therapy, ceremonial magic, quilting bees, circle jerks, and other spiritual, psychological and social forms, the participants will work with each other and with AA Bronson to construct a context in which to develop their individual projects. Readings and group discussion will include diverse topics related to art, healing, ritual, sexuality, and spirit.

10 Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography) with Olivia Plender
Program dates: July 5 – August 13, 2010
Application deadline: March 5, 2010

This residency will encourage participants to work, live, play, and think collaboratively and is based on the view that experimentation should not simply be confined to the safe space of art practice but can also change our social relations. The main focus of activity will be to open up the idea of what research can be, approaching it as a performative act in itself.

11 The distance between our minds and thoughts equals the distance between our words and mouths with Jan Verwoert
Program dates: September 13 – October 29, 2010
Application deadline: May 14, 2010

This residency is about acts, ideas, and emotions that constitute community in a different manner, through enacted difference, through the motion of standing apart together.

13 Revolution 2012 with Adrian Stimson
Program dates: January 5 – February 22, 2011
Application deadline: August 31, 2010

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists will conduct critical and reflective research. Discussions will inform and create a basis for the investigation of ancient ideas and contemporary artistic process.

14 What’s Love Got To Do With It? with Ashley Neese
Program dates: January 5 – February 22, 2011
Application deadline: August 31, 2010

This is a residency dedicated to the investigation, critique, and cultivation of love in contemporary art. Through a variety of group activities and individual creative projects, participants will reflect on what it means to love, and how artists can express love in effective ways.

Self-directed Residencies

Self-directed residencies are self-guided opportunities where the artist is free to experiment and explore new directions in the production of their work.

Winter Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: March 1 – 31, 2010
Application deadline: ongoing as space permits

Spring Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: April 19 – June 18, 2010
Application deadline: January 11, 2010

Summer Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: July 5 – September 7, 2010
Application deadline: March 5, 2010

Fall Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: September 7 – October 29, 2010
Application deadline: May 14, 2010

Late Fall Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: November 15 – December 10, 2010
Application deadline: July 23, 2010

Winter Self-directed Creative Residency
Program dates: February 28 – March 30, 2011
Application deadline: November 1, 2010

For more information and to apply:
The Banff Centre, Office of the Registrar
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989

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