Camargo Fellowship – Open Call 2023-2024
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
With this 2023-2024 edition, the Camargo Foundation’s historic residency program, known in recent years as the «core program» returns to its original name, the Camargo Fellowship.
Based on feedback from the residents, we are making several adjustments to the Camargo Fellowship program, as to better meet the needs of the artists, researchers and thinkers at Camargo. We have adapted the length of the residencies so that they span a period of 10 weeks. We have increased the resources provided to the residents. Finally, we have given the Fellowship program pride of place within Camargo’s activities.
These changes reflect the Foundation’s commitment to further support groundbreaking, experimental and interdisciplinary exchanges. From now on, 14 felllows will be selected annually for a Camargo Fellowship residency. Unlike the other programs offered by the Camargo Foundation, the Camargo Fellowship is unique in that it brings together a cohort of Fellows from different fields, practices, and disciplines for a certain period of time, to focus on the development and research of their projects.
The Camargo Fellowship not only provides time and space for the residents, but also initiates exchanges within the group and develops a collective spirit, which is one of the program’s distinctive features. The interactions developed among the program’s fellows are a vital element of this program.
Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded residencies to nearly 1500 individuals as part of its mission to support advanced research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities. Since its creation, the program has gathered an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals annually, to select fellowships from a large pool of applicants from around the world.
The selected applicants are awarded residencies in a stunning, contemplative environment where they have the space, time, and freedom to think, create, and connect. With each cohort of Fellows, the Foundation strives to foster connections between research and creation.
The Camargo Foundation is committed to supporting inclusiveness and a diversity of contemporary reflections and practices, welcoming applicants from around the globe. The Camargo Fellowship offers research-based residencies to applicants from various fields and disciplines. Three main categories are available, as well as several subcategories for artists’ applications.
SCHOLARS
Scholars should be connected to the Arts and Humanities working on French and Francophone cultures, or cross-cultural studies that engage the cultures and influences of the Mediterranean region. To be eligible for a fellowship in the “Scholars” category, applicants are expected either to hold a PhD and a record of post-doctoral scholarship, or to be PhD candidates completing the final stages of research for, or writing of, their dissertation.
THINKERS
Thinkers include accomplished professionals and practitioners in cultural and creative fields (such as curators, journalists, critics, urban planners, independent scholars, etc.) who are professionally engaged in critical thought. We are interested in work attuned to the theoretical arena, the arts, and society.
ARTISTS
Artists should keep in mind that the Camargo Fellowship is a research-based residency. Applicants should have had a practice for, at a minimum, the previous 5 years. They should be the primary creators of new work or a new project. They should be able to demonstrate a track record of publications, public performances and exhibitions, credits, awards, and/or grants.
We are interested in artists who have a fully developed, mature artistic voice. Applicants may include artists who are engaged in critical thought and research- oriented projects. When applying, artists will have to identify among the following subcategories: Visual Artists / Choreographers, Theater Directors, and Performance Artists / Writers and Playwrights / Film, Video and Digital Artists / Composers and Sound Artists / Multidisciplinary Artists.
