Iméra announces the launch of the call for applications for research residencies at its Marseille site for the 2025-2026 academic year. In collaboration with its partners, Iméra is offering nine residency positions for periods of five or ten months, dedicated to scientists and/or artists.
Founded in 2007, Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University, is envisioned today as a sanctuary of intellectual freedom where a temporary community of high-level international scientists and artists can find the time, space, and resources necessary to discover, individually and collectively, new meanings and contents for original interdisciplinary research. The Institute hosts around twenty international researchers and artists each year at its site located at the Marseille Observatory, right in the city center while providing a peaceful and pleasant environment for work. Candidate selection is guided by demanding standards of excellence, without strictly
adhering to the quantity and impact indicators that dominate today’s mainstream research institutions. Intellectual courage and curiosity, a desire to discover, and a strong interdisciplinary element, also defined as an ethic of respect and collective collaboration, are criteria adopted in the evaluation of applications.
The Research & Creation Chair: Cancerology and Immunology aims to foster innovative and interdisciplinary artistic and scientific research on the issues outlined below, highlighting the synergies between scientific research in the field of cancer and immunology and research-creation. This initiative seeks to provide significant national and international visibility to this research at the crossroads of disciplines and knowledge systems, thus contributing to the outreach of cancer and immunology research through art-science collaborations and research-creation in this domain.
Rejecting an instrumental approach to art, this chair is based on the premise that art produces knowledge. Focusing on creation, transmission, and impact, the chair’s residents are expected to develop their research around 1 or more of these 3 fundamental axes:
- Reflection on the therapeutic use of artistic practices by clinicians in managing cancer and its therapies (primarily immunotherapy). Since patient access is not guaranteed, this chair cannot host art therapy projects as such
- Reflection on social representations of cancer and its therapy for producing illustrated books, films, etc.
- Reflection on the relationships between artistic practices and clinical and/or scientific practices from a more epistemological perspective
Artists receive a salary or allowance, depending on their status, of 2000 euros per month. Residents also benefit from travel expense coverage and free accommodation at the Iméra site.
Application deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, at 1:00 PM (French Time). The online application package must include the following:
- A completed application form (mandatory fields)
- A curriculum vitae including a list of publications and/or exhibitions, artistic achievements
- A presentation of the research project, clearly structured and feasible, to be conducted during the residency (maximum 5 pages) followed by a selective bibliography (mandatory for scientists) or a list of artistic and scientific references (mandatory for artists).
- Optional: a letter of support from a researcher or teacher-researcher from the Aix-Marseille site and/or a letter of recommendation from a recognized university researcher or artist in their field, related to the project’s domain.
As a result of a partnership between the Mucem and Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study (IEA) of Aix-Marseille University, the Mucem/Iméra residency 2025-26 offers three focuses open to artists, architects, researchers, scenographers, and professionals in museology and heritage with an interest in ethnographic and museological questions.
The Mucem/Iméra residency project will be integrated into the activities of the Mucemlab, the museum’s research and training center, and should be concretely applied to the Mucem, in conjunction with the Iméra programs (Arts and Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge & Mediterranean), with particular attention to the Mediterranean dimension.
The applicant is expected to develop their research in co-construction with the Mucem’s scientific team. This collaborative dimension must be clearly explained in the project, showing the envisaged working methods for this immersive collaboration.
The 3 focuses of the 2025-26 call are as follows:
- Conduct research in conjunction with the Mucem’s collections and documentary resources around two exhibitions: the “Mediterranean, Inventions and Representations” exhibition, particularly around questions of popular reappropriations of ancient pasts OR around the planning of the exhibition “How the Mediterranean Looks at Europe”, designed from the collections of the European depot of the Musée de l’Homme.
- Rethink artists’ interventions in society museums through participatory workshops integrating artistic writings based on documentary data (e.g., but not limited to, sensitive mapping and the role of alternative mapping in exhibitions).
- Conduct research on Fort Saint-Jean and its history, proposing a work or exhibition in one of the outdoor spaces of the Fort and/or in the rooms of the officers’ gallery (this third focus is only open to artists, architects, and scenographers).
Artists receive a salary or allowance, depending on their status, of 2000 euros per month. Residents also benefit from travel expense coverage and free accommodation at the Iméra site.
Application deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, at 1:00 PM (French Time). The online application file consists of the following documents:
- The completed application form (mandatory fields).
Files to upload: - A CV including a list of publications for researchers, and/or a list of works for artists and heritage/museology professionals.
- A project presentation (maximum 5 pages) followed by a selective bibliography (mandatory for researchers) or a list of artistic and scientific references (mandatory for artists)
- Optional: a letter of support from a researcher or teacher-researcher from the Aix-Marseille site and/or a letter of recommendation from a recognized university researcher or artist in their field, related to the project’s domain.
Website link: https://www.imera.fr/en/
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