CALL FOR APPLICATION: THE 2016 WORKSHOPS FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS DURING PARA SITE’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Applications due April 15
Workshop Dates: June 18 – 25
Para Site International Conference: June 21 – 23
Para Site is pleased to announce the 2016 Workshops for Emerging Professionals, which will take place from June 18 – 26, during Para Site’s International Conference from June 21 to 23.
For the second year in a row, alongside Para Site’s annual International Conference, we will work with a group of emerging curators, writers, critics, researchers, and other arts professionals from Hong Kong and the region through a series of closed-door workshops, lectures, and site-visits. This 8-day programme is designed to provide learning opportunities mediated by reputed speakers from Para Site’s conference as well as by art practitioners from across Hong Kong’s diverse institutional landscape. Working with the topics covered in the annual International Conference, the programme provides a laboratory for experimentation, posing fundamental questions and ideas that challenge various models of curatorial practice. It will also offer opportunities for networking and for the development of systems meant to nurture the participants’ careers. Participants will be selected through an application process.
HOW TO APPLY
Selected participants will be responsible for travel from their place of residence to Hong Kong, as well as the return trip, and accommodation expenses. There is no tuition fee. Para Site will cover daily meals and local transportation for all the site visits.
The course will be delivered in English.
Please send completed applications in English to “application@para-site.org.hk” by April 15, 2016. The material sent for the application will not be returned.
Applicants will be notified of the results in late April 2016.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
- A proposal (max. 1,000 words) for a curatorial project, which includes the concept, list of artists, and the institutional/geographical context for the project. This can be a purely hypothetical project, but it should be realistic and considerate towards the context selected.
- A description or review (max. 600 words) of a curatorial project that has made an impact on the applicant.
- Curriculum Vitae, including an extensive description of relevant working experience.
- One reference letter.
CONTACT
freya@para-site.org.hk
Freya Chou
Curator of Education and Public Programmes
Para Site is Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia. It produces exhibitions, publications and discursive projects aimed at forging a critical understanding of local and international phenomena in art and society.
Para Site is financially supported by the Springboard Grant under the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The content of this program does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
