Call for Applications: Thematic Residencies and Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Programs at The Banff Centre


23 Studio Time: Work of the Living Watch
Faculty: Geoffrey Farmer
Program dates: July 30, 2012 - August 17, 2012
Application deadline: March 2, 2012

Three weeks, eight talks, and studio time.

This residency will focus on time in the studio while also incorporating walks, conversation, studio visits, and readings as we contemplate the structure of experience. Such study is like hiking up a mountain. As one climbs and becomes aware of wider and wider vistas, it is important to not lose sight of details, at least not the critical ones. We must let go of some, however; life is too short.

In addition to Visual Arts facilities access, Studio Time participants will be invited to attend the public lectures and meet the faculty and participants of the Banff Research in Culture (BRIC) residency, The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13).

23 Experimental Comedy Training Camp
Faculty: Michael Portnoy
Guests: Steven M. Johnson, Reggie Watts
Program dates: September 10, 2012 - October 26, 2012
Application deadline: April 13, 2012

Rule #1: What you were doing and calling "art" is now called "experimental comedy."

This residency will include a light study of contemporary humour theory in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive linguistics as well as a sprint through comedy-writing instructional texts and books on comedy in the visual arts. A weekly experimental comedy club, daily prank calls, and regular "roasts" will occur, where we take existing works of art, ideas, and forms of practice and tweak, skewer, prune and graft them to create new destabilizing chimera. In group sessions, the four main areas of focus will be language/logic, movement/character, scenario/situation, and things which do things.

Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Programs
Ongoing opportunities

Banff Artist in Residence programs offer independent periods of study where artists, curators, and other arts professionals are free to experiment and explore. Participants are provided with an individual studio accessible 24 hours a day, as well as use of Visual Arts facilities including printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. BAIR offers short and long-term opportunities to work at a remove from the constraints of everyday life.

Aboriginal Studio Work Study
Program dates: April 30, 2012 - December 14, 2012
Application deadline: March 2, 2012

Visual Arts Studio Work Study programs are internship-style opportunities designed to expand and enhance participants' technical skills and to increase knowledge and creativity in the areas of printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. Programs offer a dynamic combination of learning opportunities which include attending workshops, demonstrations, and presentations; contact with professional staff, visiting artists, and faculty; and collaboration with facilitators in Visual Arts and other Banff Centre arts programs.

Walter Phillips Gallery Public Programs Work Study
Program dates: April 23, 2012 - December 14, 2012
Application deadline: March 2, 2012

The Walter Phillips Gallery Public Programs Work Study program is an internship-style opportunity designed to enhance participants' knowledge, build administrative skills, and provide work experience for emerging curators and artists who have an interest in gallery oriented public programs. The work portion of the experience will primarily focus on activities that support and assist WPG activities such as exhibitions, tours, publications, and Banff International Curatorial Institute events under the direct mentorship of the curator and other members of the WPG team.

For more information and to apply:
Office of the Registrar
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989
www.banffcentre.ca/va


Upcoming Public Lectures & Events

Tuesday, February 7, 7 p.m.
Ken Lum Artist's Talk

Thursday, February 9, 7 p.m.
Polly Staple Curator's Talk

Friday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
Todd Saunders Recent Work

Saturday, February 11, 8 p.m.
Raven Chacon – Solo
Acoustic and Electric Noise Music

Tuesday, February 14, 4 p.m.
Richard Noble Public Talk

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Photo: Banff Centre Canada Day parade float, July 1, 1972. Courtesy Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives.