Applications open – Deadline to apply: 30 November 2024
The Warburg’s Assetto Fellowships will see the Institute host three creative practitioners per year to fall within each 3- or 4-month academic term. Two of these Fellowships will be nominated by an external committee with the remaining position advertised through this open call. The positions encourage creative interdisciplinarity and will include visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, composers, designers, game developers and writers, among other fields. Fellows will be required to contribute to the Institute’s public programme (not always within the duration of their Fellowship) across the Institute’s events, exhibitions, publishing, and/or digital content.
Provided with a workspace and integrated into the life of the Warburg, Assetto Practitioners in Residence will be given the time and resources to research and develop their practice in the context of the Institute’s collections, research community and artistic programme. With the broad aim of intersecting Warburg’s unique lens on cultural history with contemporary culture and thinking, the Assetto Fellowships have been devised to foster a new institutional conviviality where research, curatorship, teaching, and interdisciplinary practice establishes a porous culture across the Institute’s new spaces.
The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture. Its collections, courses and programmes are dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
The Warburg’s unique Library, Archive and Photographic Collection form a holistic, associative engine for exploring the histories of the arts and sciences—linking the textual and the visual, the intellectual and the social, the scientific and the magical. Following an extensive renovation of the Institute’s building in Bloomsbury, new spaces for exhibitions and events have restored the Institute’s original emphasis on discovery, display and debate and are bringing its holdings and programmes to new audiences.
Award Details
- Nominations will be made by the Warburg’s Curatorial Advisory Board.
- Nominations and selections will be aligned with institutional goals and strategic work in Equity Diversity and Inclusion.
- Fellowships will last between 3 and 4 months.
- Each Fellowship will come with a fee of £10,000.
- Fellows are invited to apply for one research trip up to the value of £1,500.
- A budget for materials and expenses will be permitted up to £1,000.
- Fellows will be provided with a workspace, email address, access to collections and other standard Fellowship privileges. Studio space can be arranged on a case-by-case basis.
Fellowship Commitments
Fellows will have regular meetings with Warburg faculty and wider research community, including partnered institutions like the Slade School of Fine Art. Fellows will be invited but not required to contribute to the Institute’s artistic programme: events, exhibitions, publishing or digital content. This will be by arrangement with the Curator with additional support provided by the Curatorial Committee. Fellows are obliged to be present on site and attend the regular events of the Institute, such as weekly lunches and work-in-progress meetings, and meet key supporters of the programme. Fellows will also be required to produce a brief report and/or attend Fellowship evaluation session towards the end of their time.
Awards will be balanced between emerging and established practitioners, favouring applicants with a practice engaged in images, interdisciplinarity, cultural history and synergies with the Warburg’s collections.
Please note the following:
- Those who have previously held a long-term fellowship at the Institute are not eligible to apply.
- Candidates from outside the EU will need to check the regulations for acquiring a visa to visit the UK for the period of their fellowships.
- Fellows will be expected to be based for the majority of their time at the Warburg.
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Website link: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/funded-research-fellowships/assetto-fellowships-creative-practitioners-residence
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