Funded Artist in Residency Opportunity

2022 Funded Residency Call Out

Deadline: Monday, March 14, 2022 at 5pm AEDT
Notification of Outcome: Monday, April 4, 2022 

With the support of Regional Arts Victoria, the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture has two funded residencies available for a Victorian based photographer, and video artist. We are seeking artists who have a practice of documenting the effects of climate and weather on natural ecologies through imaging processes and technologies. Some of the outcomes produced through the residencies will be incorporated into our current research project The Bogong High Plains Sound Map. Each residency is for three weeks to be undertaken anytime between Monday, 18th July and Monday, October 31, 2022 at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture located at Bogong Village in North East Victoria. The residency comes with an artist fee of $2000 and includes accommodation.

The Bogong High Plains Sound Map is a generative website comprising sound recordings of the eco-acoustic characteristics of the Victorian alps to express the effects of climate change, industrialisation and recreational tourism upon this rarefied cold climate ecology. Sound maps provide a way of expressing the acoustic markers of place distinct from textual and visual methods used in traditional cartography. For this project sound recordings are used to expand the way the region is represented by incorporating seasonal characteristics to enhance audience experience and interaction. The website will feature recordings produced over one year to demonstrate ways the alpine environment is transformed by climate and weather, as well as by activities such as power generation, land management, tourism and sport. Through the convergence of natural, anthropogenic and atmospheric events the sound map will articulate the operations and conditions underpinning this unique cold climate ecology.

The Bogong Centre for Sound Culture is an independent remote-regional cultural initiative situated in the foothills of Victoria’s Alpine National Park. Established by Philip Samartzis and Madelynne Cornish in 2010, the B–CSC supports projects focusing on the alpine environment; sustainable energy; climate change; remote communities; recreation; fieldwork; and new systems and processes of art making. The B–CSC is situated at the newly restored old school at Bogong Alpine Village located 350 kilometres from Melbourne in North East Victoria.

Applicants will be selected by a peer review panel whose decisions are final.

• The funded residences are supported by Regional Arts Victoria.
• The Bogong High Plains Sound Map is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.
• This opportunity is not available to the B–CSC residency alumni.
• The work produced through the residency must be available for use by the B–CSC in full consultation and acknowledgement of the artist.
• The rights of work produced during the residency reside solely with the artist and can be published elsewhere with acknowledgement of the B-CSC and Regional Arts Victoria.

Please note that the B–CSC does not have the facilities to host artists working in a creative partnership nor the artist’s family.

Artists will be provided with:
$2000 artist fee
Self-contained accommodation

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Application Requirements

• Full Name:
• Artistic Name, if applicable:
• Address:
• Phone:
• Email:
• Website:
• Current CV

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Preferred Dates
Please give up to three sets of dates in order of preference

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A brief proposal as to how work produced through your residency can value add to the Bogong High Plains Sound Map. (250 words)

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Note:
Please ensure all printed material is sent as a PDF

For further information please email the B-CSC.