Residency in Mexico
SOMA Summer is a space for reconsideration and reflection, where participants have the opportunity to critically analyze their proposals, and where revisiting creative processes is encouraged. Each SOMA Summer is organized around a different theme, which provides a compelling conceptual framework for research and creative work.
SOMA Summer Program was designed and founded by Carla Herrera-Prats (1973-2019) in 2010. Intended to gather a group of artists, curators, critics, and art historians, interested in collaborative pedagogical models, the program was designed to promote intense creative work and open dialogue in Mexico City.
SOMA Summer 2022, Avatars In Paradise, will revolve around conversations on the flexibility of identity, the limitations of ideology, and the potential of play. The program is structured on the ideas of dissolution, projection, and decentering.
Curated as a sort of (un)learning resort, the three-week program proposes a connection between low-intensity performative activities led by guest tutors, open leisure spaces, and communal learning situations. It seeks to generate alternative narratives around the construction of subjectivity and the crisis of liberalism by activating communal imaginaries aimed towards new aesthetic discourses and challenging traditional systems of learning and ideating.
The program will take place in Santa María Xalostoc, a former hacienda in Tlaxco, in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico from Monday, July 4th to Sunday, July 24th.
Application requirements
Using the online platform, please submit the following information:
-Short biography (1500 characters)
-Curriculum vitae (2 pages max.)
-Artist’s statement (3000 characters)
-Why are you interested in the subject “Avatars in Paradise”? (3000 characters)
-Portfolio: 15 recent images of work, and/or links to 2 videos (5 min. each max.), and/or links to 2 sound pieces (5 min. each max.), and/or links to 3 texts (7,000 words each max.). Please include a technical sheet (title, name, media, year) listing all the works and a description of each project (50 words per project max.).
-URL to website (optional)
-3 references (name and contact info only)
-Copy of a valid passport
SOMA Summer invites participants who are eager to reflect on their practices -and who are not focused on preparing work for exhibitions or other previous commitments and impending deadlines.
Application deadline: April 8th no later than 23:59 CST
About SOMA
Contact ssummer@somamexico.org for further information regarding your application.
Fore more details regarding this open call, please refer to the website of organization.
