GOETH E- I N STITUT
CAMARGO FOU N DATION
RESIDENCIES IN 2017 AND 2018
CA LL FO R A P P LI CATI O N S
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TA B LE O F CO NTE NTS
THE PROGRAM
THINKING EUROPE FROM THE SEA
BY N A N N A H E I D E N R E I C H
ELIGIBILITY
D U R AT I O N , S T I P E N D , A N D A C C O M O D AT I O N
T O A P P LY
PA S T P R O J E C T S
C O N TA C T U S
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TH E P ROG R AM
Located in Cassis, France and founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill, the Camargo
Foundation is a residential center offering multicultural and interdisciplinary programming in the humanities and the arts. It offers artists, researchers and intellectuals a space
to reflect. It is particularly dedicated to researchers who want to pursue studies in the
human and social sciences related to French, French-speaking and Mediterranean cultures,
as well as to artists of any artistic discipline to think, create, and connect.
The Goethe-Institut, as the major international cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Goethe-Institut promotes knowledge of the German language abroad
and fosters international cultural cooperation. It also helps the international public discover Germany by educating it about the cultural, social and political life of Germany. To
mark the occasion of the designation of Marseille-Provence as European Capital of Culture
in 2013,the Goethe-Institut opened a location in Marseille, which has since been offering
cultural activities year-round.
The Goethe-Institut and the Camargo Foundation invite artists from Germany and the Mediterranean region, in groups of no more than four, to submit applications for a residency at
the Camargo Foundation. At least one group member must be an artist residing in Germany,
the other members can hail from other countries as well as from various disciplines (artists,
scholars, philosophers, urbanists, economists etc.).
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TH I N KI NG EU ROPE FROM TH E
S E A BY NAN NA H E I DE N R E ICH
The abduction of Europe by Zeus was a seaborne event: disguised as a bull – a white bull mythology insists – he carried her across the
Aegean Sea to the island of Crete, where he “seduced” – raped – her. In 1993 Jacques Delors, the then president of the European Commission
proclaimed that “nobody falls in love with a common market”. To entice this love (“European identity”, “European integration”, “pan-Europeanism”,…), the European Union has since decided to feature the image of Europe on coins and banknotes. The circulation of money as
the attempt to certify a European identity is of course significant, not least because money is increasingly being certified – securitized – by
the gendered, and racialised, human body.
The Aegean Sea from where Europe emerged as an image of water, violence and circulation, is a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea. “I
have loved the Mediterranean with passion”, opens Fernand Braudel his opus magnum The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World
in the Age of Philip II, in which he prefers the longue durée of the rhythms of climate, geology and geography over historical and political
events. But perspective is always charged, Europe reminds us. “What is love?” was a huge number one hit in 1993, the year the EU became
effective. The Eurodance track was performed by Afro-German singer Haddaway on his debut album “The Album”. His answer is simple:
“Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more.” Did he sing in the name of Europe? Or did the authors of the track – from Coconut Records (!)
in Cologne – write it for Zeus, the white bull, who might add, in good pop music style “love made me do it”?
The old Latin term for the Mediterranean is Mare Nostrum, our sea. But who is ‘us’, who is this ‘we’? The (not just current) movements
of migration call for the connection of spaces, of the elements, of water and land, to trajectories of political structures and political imaginaries, and the geographies of the law. Mare Nostrum was the name given to a year-long Italian navy operation in 2013/14, which was
initiated in response to the ship wreckages and numerous migrants deaths off the island of Lampedusa.
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TH I N KI NG EU ROPE FROM TH E
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Mare Nostrum extended border control into the space of the sea yet it also saved hundreds of thousands of lives – until another sea
creature ended this mission, Triton. Frontex’ operation put through what can only be described as a left-to-die policy. The deaths in the
Mediterranean occur in what the Italian multidisciplinary network Multiplicity once has described as “solid sea”, in which “liquid traces”
are left, as the Forensic Architecture researchers Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani have put it, traces, which we need to learn to follow
and to read.
So: Who owns the sea? And where is Europe now? And who (or what) is Zeus today? And what consistence does the Mediterranean have,
did it undergo a phase transition? What time is it in History? How do we think the encounter between the land and the sea, between the
stream and its shore? What does money have to do with all of this? Or political structures?
Thinking Europe from the Sea invites artists and scholars in the Euro-Mediterranean region to think about Europe from perspectives
off the map. What does it mean to think Europe from the water, from the coast (which, for example has been reconfigured into protection
zones to facilitate information traffic as Nicole Starosielski argues, while hindering human traffic) as well as from the rivers, streams and
rivulets: liquid topological imaginations unfolding against the expansion of borders, the creation of no-land zones (hotspots), the implementation of austerity politics and the petrification of nationalisms.
Nanna Heidenreich, curator.
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E LIG I BI LIT Y
Applicants must be professionals actively working in the mentioned disciplines. At least one group member
must have his/her principal residence in Germany. Preference will be given to teams that include a member
from a Mediterranean country (including the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’Azur, European countries as
well as countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region).
In addition to the artistic quality of the proposal, special consideration will be given to projects and ideas
that include historical, sociological and political approaches.
Multidisciplinary team approaches will be given priority. We invite artists or joint team of artists and
researchers to present their joint project. The program favors exchange in order to allow the team as well
as the local arts and science communities to benefit from other perspectives and broaden their horizons.
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DU R ATIO N , STI P E N D,
ACCO M O DATIO N
DURATION OF THE RESIDENCY
The residencies will run for 3 to 6 weeks at a time, depending on the availability of the selected teams and of the Camargo Foundation. Preferably,
they will be held between November 2017 and June 2018.
STIPEND
An overall one-time stipend of 2,500 EUR will be granted to the selected project to cover expenditures associated with the residency
(including travel, food and any other expenses that the team might have).
ACCOMODATION
Accommodation for up to four persons in (a) furnished apartment(s) with bathroom and kitchen at the Camargo Foundation, depending on the
availability of the selected team and of the Camargo Foundation.
Spouses/adult partners and dependent minor children may accompany fellows for short stays or for the duration of the residency. Due to
the physical arrangements at the Camargo Foundation, accompanying children must be at least six years old upon arrival and enrolled
in and attending school or organized activities outside the Camargo Foundation campus, during the week. Only family members whose
names appear on the application form may be in residence.
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TO APPLY
DEADLINE
The call for applications is open from April 19th to June 21st, 2017 (midnight – Paris Time).
APPLICATIONS
Applications can be in English or French.
Candidates should submit their applications online ONLY: https://camargofoundation.submittable.com/submit
Applications must include:
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Online Applications Form-
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Resumes for all applicants
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Project description (1,200 to 2,000 words)
Presentation of previous works
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PAST PROJ ECTS
Since 2014, the Goethe-Institut and the Camargo Foundation have joined forces each year to support an international
project with artists and scholars, hosting them in the Aix-Marseille-Provence region.
In 2014, following a call for applications on the topic of art and public spaces, the selected project for a residency in
2015 “Gated communities”by painter Anke Doberauer and scholar Elisabeth Dorier questioned the proliferation of
closed residential communities in Marseille and their impact on the urban nature of the city.
In 2015, the call for applications asked for contributions about our relationship with the environment and landscapes
as well as the interface between city and nature. The selected project, for a residency in 2016 proposed by Boris
Sieverts and Erik Goengrich, explored the potential as well as social and cultural dimensions of Cassis and the region
around the Calanques National Park.
The call of 2016 asked candidates to work on «Migrations and Mobilities». Indeed,
advancements in transport, technological progress and international politics have
intensified the circulation of goods, information and people. For their residency in
April 2017, Mohamedali Ltaief and Darja Stocker chose to work on the mobility of
discourses and mobility of images. They also took some time to think about the
concept of «geographic mobility»
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CO NTAC T U S
Goethe-Institut Marseille
Tsveta Dobreva, Programmatrice culturelle
Friche la Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, 13 003 Marseille
Mail : [email protected]
Web : www.goethe.de/marseille
The Camargo Foundation
Julie Chenot, Program Director
1, avenue Jermini, 13260 Cassis, France
Mail : [email protected]
Web : www.camargofoundation.org
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