PURPOSE to challenge artistic projects within a collaborative context
PRINCIPLES is a skill-sharing program based on collaborative artistic
practices developed by and for young professionals who want to challenge
a specific project CONCEPT 7 artists from different backgrounds are
placed in the same space to affect each other’s work

STRUCTURE
Period of 4 weeks Art Space at Agora’s top floor – 120 sq. meter in a
industrial building in Neukölln Berlin 7 artists are selected through
open call. 4 variety of interventions with 1 facilitator per week. About
the interventions: Interventions happen once a week and it is lead by a
member of Agora Collective – the processes are never top-down – the
idea is to treat the member as co-learners. Throughout the weeks, Agora
Collective members provoke smalls interventions to the group related to
their domain of research, in order to build bridges, generate inputs and
propose working tasks to the participants and their projects.

WEEK 1 // CREATING A GROUP How to create situations that encourage collaboration?

WEEK TWO // RE-MIX How to compose collaborative actions within individual artistic practices?

WEEK THREE // NETWORK What are the key elements that could provoke partnership between people?

WEEK FOUR // OUTCOME How can the group define a consensus of displaying
and presenting the process? The outcome (display of the process
experienced during the program) is decided by the group during the
process: it can be anything – an art show, a public intervention, a
creative event, a dinner, a party, etc.

PEOPLE Conceived by Agora Art Collective – A small group of artists and
thinkers coming from many disciplines and backgrounds and while it
retains a small, core group from project to project Agora Collective is
also constantly inviting new members to meet the challenges of a new
work the program Affect refers, to the influence, a change has on
something else. It is not from today that artists are influenced and
inspired by the relationships and encounters experienced throughout
their lives. Interferences and interactions between persons can create
special circumstances that are crucial for artistic development and
certainly affect the way one relates to production.

AFFECT is a program designed by Agora Collective based on collaborative
practices – Agora’s artists open their art space for 7 international
artists – from all field of arts – who aim to challenge and incorporate
new layers to their own projects. The program proposes a skill-sharing
format in which Agora Collective intends, as a catalyser, to cause/
propose/create a review of perspective mainly through discussions,
exercises, reading sessions, workshops and living collectively.

For Agora Collective the program shows itself as a potential opportunity
to formalize daily situations experienced in the space. Agora
Collective, acting since June 2011 in Berlin – opens its space and i
shares its experience for a new group of artists. key elements of AFFECT
. project sharing // skill sharing format // references sessions //
reading sessions // self-organized concept = the group sculptures the
way the program goes – from the layout of the space until the final
outcome. Specifications for the program 4 weeks/program – from 3rd
September – 29th September in Berlin, Germany Applications – deadline
August 16th Results per email: 18th of August This program is developed
for artists of any field who are interested in immersing themselves and
their projects into a collaborative situation.

HOW TO APPLY
– A short description of the project to be developed in Agora (max. 2500 characters with space) .
– Sample of previous work
– PDF, links, website, cds, dvds, etc.

Deadline for application: 16th August

Applications should be sent at [email protected] 

Location
Germany

Application deadline
August 16, 2012

Residency starts
September 3, 2012

Residency ends
September 30, 2012