KIBRIT RESIDENCY PROGRAMME // OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND
CURATORS FROM RAMALLAH
The call for applications to the KIBRIT artistic residency programme 2017 in Marrakech is still
open.
The KIBRIT residency programme in Marrakech aims at offering the opportunity to artists, curators or
cultural researchers coming from, or working in Ramallah to spend one month in Marrakech researching
or producing artworks linked to the ongoing project QANAT, which focuses on heritage and collective
memory linked to water heritage.
Application deadline: 25
th
July 2017
Results: Mid August
Location: Marrakech
Residency period: 1 month, October or November 2017
Applicants requirements:
A) The residency is open to artists, researchers, curators working in or coming from Ramallah
ONLY. No restrictions in terms of age, sex, medium.
To apply:
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Read carefully the residency description below and send a pertinent project proposal;
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Send all the listed elements to
le18marrakech@gmail.com
,
residency@ramallah.ps
and to
info@kibrit.org
by 20
th
July 2017.
For any inquiry or technical problem in downloading the application form, please write to
le18marrakech@gmail.com
.
Application material:
1) Application form
(please download the .word and send it back as .pdf once completed)
2) Portfolio and CV
3) Letter of intent (half a page)
4) Project proposal (half a page) -
note that the project proposal doesn’t have to be detailed
For more information about KIBRIT, please visit our website
www.kibrit.org
or write us at
info@kibrit.org
Residency programme in Marrakech
Qanat - reactivating water memory in Marrakech / LE 18
Premises - Elements in oblivion
Since its foundation in 1071, Marrakech distinguished itself for its urban engineering and water cultures,
becoming the archetypical Garden city. Nonetheless, in recent times its treasures have been subjected
to intensified speculation and looting. Denouncing this outrageous waste, Mohammed
El Faïz argues
that the future of the city will primarily depend on its capacity to integrate its heritage within a strategy
of sustainable development. The author furthermore highlights the historical importance of the city’s
agricultural hinterland, the Haouz, and its mountains, the High Atlas, repositories of a unique water
civilisation nowadays dangerously menaced by a Californian-style reckless graft. Indeed, there is a
shared need to start critically rethinking the legacies of the technics, technologies and cultures
embedded in traditional systems of water management, as signalled also by the recent conception of a
museum dedicated to water in the city.
Qanat is a multidisciplinary research and artistic project that aims at investigating the politics and poetics
of water memory and at reactivating the collective heritage of water civilisation and hydraulics in the
region of Marrakech, while concurring at fostering an understanding of water as a crucial common good.
Terms of the residency in Marrakech
LE 18 invites artists, curators or cultural researchers from Ramallah to apply for a month residency in
Marrakech to engage in the ongoing research on water memory and heritage the space is carrying out.
There are no restrictions in terms of kind of artistic practices and medium.
The period of the residency can be agreed with the selected grantee, but this has to necessarily occur
between September and December 2017 (preferably between October and November).
The residency offers:
Accommodation at LE 18 residency space
International travel
Per diems
Production budget
A small fee
Public presentation in Marrakech at the end of the residency and as part of the final event
closing KIBRIT programme at the end of 2017
Curatorial follow-up and local assistantship to carry out the project
The residency requires the selected grantee to:
Carry out relevant research fitting Qanat’s f
ocus;
Be able to produce results to be presented in a public restitution (this being an exhibition,
screening, listening session, conference/talk);
Allow LE 18 to use all produced documentation and research material to nourish the KIBRIT
research and visibility web-platform
LE 18
Established in 2013, LE 18 is a multidisciplinary cultural space in Marrakech, which promotes artistic
and cultural exchanges by offering a space for research, creation and expression. LE 18 aims at
supporting the local emerging art scene, bridging it with international ones, while fostering a reflection
on the role of contemporary art in the region through
research and residency programs, exhibitions
and public gatherings. Located in the medina, LE 18 offers a close proximity to the city's traditional
life, bringing its inspiring qualities into closer contact with the practices and reflections of invited
artists, while critically investigating and attentively investing the sociocultural transformations it is
undergoing.
www.le18.weebly.com
KIBRIT is a collaborative programme for research and production focused on artistic and curatorial practices
engaged in the reactivation of material and immaterial cultural heritage and collective memory in North Africa and
Middle East. KIBRIT is initiated by LE 18 (Marrakech), Atelier de l’Observatoire (Casablanca), Maison de l’Image
(Tunis), Ramallah Municipality (Ramallah), Rhizome (Algiers), in partnership with JISER (Tunis/Barcelona) and
CeRCCa (Barcelona).
Click
here
or
here
to download the full application material
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More about
KIBRIT
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General inquiries:
info@kibrit.org
;
free.masoero@gmail.com
Marrakech residency:
le18marrakech@gmail.com
Ramallah residency:
residency@ramallah.ps
Kibrit is supported by SouthMed CV, implemented by Interarts,
BAC Art Center, Gudran for Art and Development,
Khayal Arts & Education, National Center for Culture and Arts and the German Commission for UNESCO. The
program is co-funded by the European Union in the context of the Med Culture program.