Call for X-OP residency at Association for Culture and Education KIBLA (ACE KIBLA), Maribor, Slovenia

ACE KIBLA invites an artist, theoretician, or producer for a one-month
residency in Maribor for October 2009 in the frame of the eXchange of art
Operators and Producers – X-OP project.

X-OP – eXchange of art operators and producers is a gradually growing
network of artists, researchers, operators, producers and centers with the
aim to establish European platform for creation of art and exchange. With
its places, spaces and user oriented technological infrastructure it
fosters mobility of artists, theoreticians and executives. It is built to
strengthen pan-European and global collaboration, common production and
interdisciplinary approach to art.

Residency-guest should propose a project for the annual Kiblix – Open
Source Art Festival, which is taking place in the Multimedia Center KIBLA
(MMC KIBLA) in the end of October 2009.
http://www.kibla.org/en/festivals/kiblix/

Residency-guest is expected to collaborate with local artists, give public
presentations of the (previous) work at KIBLA and in other spaces and
places, give a lecture or/and a workshop and write an overview of the
stay.

We offer accommodation in an apartment in Maribor and cover food expenses.
We provide residency-guest with connections to the local art scene and aim
at helping with facilitating the artistic production during the residency.

Please send your application:
electronically to: x-op@kibla.si

or to the address:
Multimedia Center KIBLA (MMC KIBLA)
for X-OP Residency
Ulica kneza Koclja 9
2000 Maribor
Slovenia

The application should include:
- curriculum vitae
- introduction to your artistic practice
- motivation letter for a residency in Maribor

Deadline for applications is the 15th of September 2009.
For further questions please contact x-op@kibla.si

Slovenian version / Slovenska verzija:

Razpis za X-OP rezidenco v Kulturno izobraževalnem društvu KIBLA (KID
KIBLA), Maribor, Slovenija

KID KIBLA vabi umetnika ali umetnico, teoretika ali teoretičarko,
producenta ali producentko na enomesečno rezidenco v Maribor v oktobru
2009, v okviru projekta Izmenjava operaterjev in producentov umetnosti /
eXchange of art Operators and Producers – X-OP.

X-OP – Izmenjava operaterjev in producentov umetnosti je postopoma rastoče
omrežje umetnikov, raziskovalcev, operaterjev, producentov in centrov, s
čimer želimo vzpostaviti evropsko platformo za ustvarjanje umetnosti in
izmenjavo. S svojimi lokacijami, prostori in uporabnikom prilagojeno
tehnološko infrastrukturo spodbuja mobilnost umetnikov, teoretikov in
vodstva. Projekt je zasnovan tako, da krepi vseevropsko in globalno
sodelovanje, skupno produkcijo in interdisciplinarni pristop k umetnosti.

Gost ali gostja rezidence mora predlagati projekt za Kiblix – letni
festival Odprtokodne umetnosti, ki se bo zgodil v Multimedijskem centru
KIBLA (MMC KIBLA) konec oktobra 2009.
http://www.kibla.org/si/festivali/kiblix/

Od gosta ali gostje rezidence pričakujemo sodelovanje z lokalnimi umetniki
in umetnicami, javne predstavitve (dosedanjega) dela v Kibli in tudi
drugih prostorih in krajih, predavanje ali/in delavnico in pregled svojega
bivanja.

Ponujamo bivanje v stanovanju v Mariboru in kritje stroškov za hrano.
Gostu ali gostji rezidence bomo priskrbeli kontakte z lokalno umetniško
sceno in pomagali vzpostaviti umetniško produkcijo med rezidenco.

Prosim pošljite na vaše prijave:
elektronsko na: x-op@kibla.si

ali na naslov:
Multimedijski center KIBLA (MMC KIBLA)
za X-OP rezidenco
Ulica kneza Koclja 9
2000 Maribor
Slovenija

Prijava naj vsebuje:
- življenjepis (curriculum vitae)
- opis vaše umetniške prakse
- motivacijsko pismo za rezidenco v Mariboru

Rok za prijavo je do 15. septembra 2009.
Za nadaljnja pojasnila, prosimo, kontaktirajte x-op@kibla.si