8th & 9th February- 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Art Residency Announcement
“Art Commune” Residency at the Goa Center for Alternative Photography
Sesson 1
Topic: Golden Beach Art Commune
Where: Goa, India
When: 15th March to 15th April 2010
Deadline: 15 February 2010
Session 2
Topic: Monsoon Art Commune
Where: Goa, India
When: 20th September to 15th October 2010
Deadline: 15 August 2010
Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established in Goa, India. The Goa-CAP is the first conservative art space dedicated exclusively to photography and aims to become a professional and comprehensive platform for the promotion of alternative photography Art in India
The Art Commune is a residency and project workshop for the promotion of Alternative Photography and international exchange. Its principal focus is an international residency program to which artists from various disciplines around the world are invited to live, work, collaborate and exhibit during the residency period. The goal is to offer artists: studios, time, and resources for pursuing their range of expression, for experimenting, for developing projects, while working and living in a global village environment.
LOCATION:
ART COMMUNE is located 1 km. away from the Calangute beach; one of the most famous and beautiful beaches of the world. It takes 10 minutes brisk walk from the ART COMMUNE to the Calangute beach. It occupies 4000 Sq/m property which includes orchard and living house. The territory gives possibility to live and work in the same area.
WORKSPACE
Studios are in several great trees and stones in the village. Residents shall have 24-hour access to the studio. Goa-CAP provides the Black and white darkroom for the residents for use through out the day. In addition the following support is also provided to the resident artists
01. Models for portrait sessions can be made available on request.
02. Residents have access to the telephone, computer with Internet access, and video collection.
03. Photography and Painting materials are available at the Goa-CAP Store
04. One week travel to Kuveshi, a beautiful mountaintop village in the Western Ghats of India with an amazing scenery full of exquisite charms.
ACCOMMODATION
Residents stay in the single occupancy, tents especially designed and built for the residency. Goa-CAP provides basic housekeeping services and provides clean sheets and towels on weekly basis. The program fee includes three delicious Goan meals each day, excluding trip days. Residents enjoy these meals together in the dining room, or on the scenic terrace, looking out over the Goa landscape. Meals are prepared in our kitchen. The food is simple and wholesome, with fresh produce from the nearby farms, and prepared with care by the local cooks. A typical lunch includes rice, fish, vegetables and a legume, salad, fresh bread, mineral water, fruit and coffee.
DURATION OF RESIDENCIES
2010 Schedule and Fees
The fee includes studio space, a single room, and three meals in a day, group trips, and ground transportation from and to the Goa airport. The duration of the Art Commune is one month and artist may apply for individual residency also.
March 15- April 15 5 weeks $ 1500
Sept. 20 – Oct. 15 4 weeks $ 2000
* Artists based in India are eligible for grants. Please see the grants section below for more details.
An exhibition of the art work produced by the residents in the “Galerie Daguerre”, shall conclude the program. Local artists and people will attend the exhibition from the surrounding areas.
GRANTS
Artists are encouraged to give lectures/ art presentations and conduct workshops with the students at the Art University through collaboration of Goa-CAP. The artists shall be paid for the events related to their educational contributions. Since there are no funding opportunities available in India, artists are encouraged to apply for grants and scholarship in their own countries. Goa-CAP shall be happy to provide the required letters of support.
Indian artists are eligible to get up to 100% discount on the residency fee. For more information please contact: Srinivas Mangipudi (info@goa-cap.com)
SPECIAL ALLOWANCE GRANTED TO ARTISTS
If you are an artist based in Latin America, you are welcome to apply for one month artist-in-residence at Goa-CAP, as part of Indo-Peruvian art exchange program. We will provide apartment and studio free of cost.
HOW TO APPLY
Send the recent Curriculum vitae (CV) together with 10 recent art work pictures (jpg. Format) and a work plan by email to: info@goa-cap.com.
>>> There are no application forms. Please feel free be creative.
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2 9 9 7 9 2 4 5 8 – Exhibition Pictures
Pictures from the first exhibition: http://www.goa-cap.com/299792458/index.html
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2 9 9 7 9 2 4 5 8
PRESS RELEASE
Contact:
P. Madhavan, Srinivas Mangipudi, Edson Dias
Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP), House No. E2 / 268, Dongorpur (Royal Village), Near St. Alex Church, Calangute, Goa, India, www.goa-cap.com, +91 9730103604, +91 9820679662
January 09, 2010, Goa – Goa Centre for Alternative Photography (Goa–CAP) opens its new exhibition titled [ 2 9 9 7 9 2 4 5 4 ], displayed at the Galerie Daguerre from January 09 until Jan 11, 2010. This is the first exhibition in India to focus exclusively on the Pinhole Photographic art. This exhibition also introduces the visitors to new, unconventional cameras made out of trash and match box never before seen in India. The pictures are dreamlike multi-layered arrangements while the lengthy process of creating each picture is as important as the final result.
Alternative photography artists from Goa, Edson Dias, P. Madhavan, Srinivas Mangipudi, Enith Perez, are exhibiting the collection of photographs taken by them through the simplest of all cameras, made out of One Rupee Matchbox.
This lens (glass) less camera if formed of a lightproof matchbox with a small opening, which allows the light to enter to form an Upside down and reversed image on film on the opposite side of the matchbox. Exposure time tend to be lengthier since only a small amount of light is admitted through the hole.
The handmade camera is the new future for photography and a refreshing response to today’s digital era. Faster, newer and stronger photography makes enables the artists and photographers to fidget with images on a computer screen and share them across the world in a flicker of seconds. The simplicity with which the images are created using a matchbox is therefore more charming and captivating.
Exhibition [ 2 9 9 7 9 2 4 5 4 ] is an attempt to honor the magic, uncertainty, and mystery of this early process in contemporary practice. This exhibition also addresses the diminishing efforts to preserve culture, nature and art in the face of modernization and raises issues of global importance.
Goa Centre for Alternative Photography (Goa–CAP) is also hosting a series of events in coming weeks to educate people about the alternative photography especially pinhole photography. Included in this series of events is a discussion with the four exhibiting artists to discuss the creative process that is unique to alternative photography.
These events are free and open to the public while donations are accepted and appreciated.
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: JAN 09 – JAN 11
ARTIST AND PRESS RECEPTION: JAN 09, 6 – 7PM
DISCUSSION WITH THE ARTISTS: JAN 10, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: JAN 18 TO JAN 22
The Goa – Center for Alternative Photography is the first conservative art space dedicated exclusively to photography and aims to become a professional and comprehensive platform for the promotion of alternative photography Art in India. For more information about the center please logon to www.goa-cap.org.
*299792454 m/sec is the speed of the light
HIGHWAY HYPOTHESIS
Goa scenic resources are contributing much to our economic development by attracting tourists, residents, new green industries and cultural facilities. Natural beauty is the most important criteria for tourist both domestic and international to choose Goa for an outdoor recreation. The more a community does to enhance its unique natural, scenic, historic, and architectural assets, the more tourists it attracts.
However the increasing billboards and other forms of outdoor advertisements are becoming a matter of increasing concern to many Goans and tourists visiting Goa. It is detrimental to the preservation of these resources, and consequently to the economic base of the state. These visual clutters simply denigrate our history, culture and subtract from the natural, scenic beauty that attracts visitors here in the first place. Billboards are both a symptom and cause of urban blight & reflect the madness in the society.
The natural beauty of Goa is one of our most valuable assets – covering it up with a bunch of gigantic signs blemishes the magnificent landscape of GOA
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Through the Pinhole – Workshop
Completed workshop: THROUGH THE PINHOLE
No of days: 5 days
No of participants: 4
Workshop Date: 20th – 22nd Feb 2010
Enrollement & Information: Please contact Edson Dias: +91 9890063469
edsonoffline@gmail.com
Description
This workshop offers a chance to explore the basic notion and engineering of the elusive pinhole camera and then apply these principals to their own creations. Recycled and alternative materials will be played with (including matchbox, milk tins, coke cans, etc…). The second half of the workshop will be spent testing the new alternative camera—taking pictures and experimenting with self-portraiture and landscape photos.
This workshop will also explore various methods of printing and transferring images in the darkroom. We will make pinhole cameras and paper negatives followed by investigating the ways to make positives out of these negatives through coating paper.
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GOA INTERNATIONAL PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2010, FESTIVAL, AWARDS
Goa Center for Alternative Photography announces: International Pinhole Photography contest 2010, Festival, Awards to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photographyand in honor of April 25, 2010 World Pinhole Photography Day.
Prizes: 1st Prize: USD 1000 / 2nd Prize: USD 500 / 3rd Prize: USD 250
Last Date for Entries: 5th April, 2010
All entrants are eligible to get 10% discount in the Art in Residencies conducted by Goa-CAP
Open call for photographic work taken with a pinhole camera.The selected entries will be exhibited and available for sale!!
For more details: http://www.goa-cap.com/goa2010.html