2012 International Land Art Workshop

Open Call for Residency Applicants

Deadline: Accepted, until spots are filled

Date: October 5-19, 2012
Venue: Sang Arts Village, Sang near Tamale in Northern Region of Ghana

International Land Art Workshop is a two-week group residency by the NKA Foundation. It is designed to bring together creative persons such as artists, architects and engineers to create works by use of materials from the environment. The participants will live and work together in an Arts Village in a rural township for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilization of skills over the two-week period. By land art (or earthworks, environmental art) we imply: (1) Works created with materials from the environment involving air, water, earth, stone, and wood, or (2) Site-specific installation (with natural or industrial materials) within a landscape to create an aesthetic experience. Thus, the theme is open; but permanency of work is encouraged, ephemeral would be only if it is the most appropriate means to communicating the idea. The realized work may become a part of the Arts Village or sited in a public space in nearby village.

Organizers will provide accommodation and food; an accepted applicant will contribute participation fee of $100 / €70 toward food. The international participant is responsible for own travel costs and proposed project. We suggest that participants apply for travel grants through their national art councils or other sources. To apply, send CV, statement/sketch of your proposed work, and a sample of your existing work to info@nkafoundation.org/ nkaprojects@gmx.com. Submissions will be reviewed until space is filled.

Workshop Director: Stuart Frost, Department of Art and Design Education, Telemark University College, Notodden, Norway.

For more information, visit www.nkafoundation.org.
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GHANA: COMMUNITY ARTS IN FOCUS

WHAT: 2nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium: Community Arts in Focus

WHERE: Ghana

WHEN: July 16—August 6, 2011

WHO: Artists and thinkers worldwide

The 3-week event will focus on community arts practice, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary African artist and the rural community. We will use Kumasi City-Abetenim rural sites such as market places, local schools, village centers, and others as laboratories for workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific installations, lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world.  Thus, we invite individual or group submissions for community theatre, media arts, readings, film screening, slide shows, open studios, visual activism, musical performances, community design, social architecture and others to allow the rural community to become acquainted with international contemporary artistic practice.
Project is open to only serious applicants.  For additional information or registration e-mail to info@nkafoundation.org and/or nkaprojects@gmx.com.  Project web site is http://www.nkafoundation.org/