Les Mòniques Call 2024/2025

On 9 April the call for applications for grants for research and experimentation in artistic mediation in residence for the period September 2024 - July 2025 at the Santa Mònica arts centre is open. The people selected will form part of Les Mòniques 24-25. The period to apply will end on 30 April.

• Who are the residency grants at Santa Mònica aimed at and what is their objective?

The residency grants at Santa Mònica are aimed at transdisciplinary creators working in the relational or participatory field.

The aim is to promote the development of prototypes of artistic mediation devices that explore transmedia formats that open up the contents, discourses and questions that the centre contains and generates to different audiences.

Each of the transmedia devices developed during the residency acts as a prototype, i.e. an experimental format that responds to the logic of trial and error. The prototypes may or may not remain as a stable future device, at the disposal of Santa Mònica, but they do not have to respond to demands or objectives set by the centre. The prototypes generated and the future stable devices are not conceived as works with intellectual property and individual authorship, but as projects that can be replicated by future grant holders or the institution itself.

The three exhibition cycles that will take place between autumn 2024 and summer 2025 are based on the following questions: how can collective work as an artistic and political practice be made visible in a social context governed by individualistic logics; what are the links between competitiveness and standardisation in the world of sport and art and similar processes that can occur in the free market; how can art be used as an exercise in speculative fiction for the generation of potential stories?

• What is it like and how is the stay in residence structured?

The residencies are designed as temporary stays of 11 months in a shared space at the Santa Mònica. During this time, the residents set up and participate in research processes that end up materialising in various prototypes of artistic mediation devices. At the same time, they are invited to share their lines of research and the resulting prototypes within the framework of other education and mediation programmes and projects of the centre, such as, for example, the curatorial training programme at the Santa Mònica (creating) Situations, the educational project Sojornar and the Festival de Cultura Raval(s) coordinated by the Tot Raval foundation.

The grant holders work on-site at Santa Mònica to promote the exchange of knowledge within the group and the collective dimension of the different research processes. The group of residents has a production grant for the development of prototypes and a follow-up of their stay and their research processes by the centre's management and technical team.

In addition, there are 5 intensive residency periods during which the artists and the Santa Mònica team in charge of accompanying the residency can collectively deepen, review and evaluate the research processes underway as well as the internal work dynamics and the relationship with the institution.

Residence calendar:

The 2024/2025 scholarship programme intensives will take place during one and a half consecutive days of the following weeks:

Intensive #1 (welcome, presentation of the group, immersion in the context and environment of Santa Mònica): 4 and 5 September.
Intensive #2: 6 and 7 November.
Intensive #3: 5 and 6 February.
Intensive #4: 2 and 3 April.
Intensive #5: (final evaluation and closure): 2 and 3 July.

• Modalities of the grants

The modalities of the grants 2023/2024 are:

a) Participatory mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research into experimental forms of mediation and the activation of audiences, that is, research into the creation of alternative forms of reception and participation in artistic and cultural events by audiences.

b) Spatial mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research that rethinks content in terms of the design of exhibition spaces and ephemeral architectural devices, as well as constructions in public space. Research in this modality may also investigate experimental audience arrangements.

c) Digital mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research into experimental forms of content mediation through apps, platforms and other digital projects.

d) Communication mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research on experimental forms of mediation understood as communication and dissemination, both physical and digital.

e) Editorial mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research into experimental forms of mediation through design and editorial production.

f) Educational mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research experimenting with diverse educational and training activities, as well as around digital training actions.

g) Gastronomic mediation research (3 grants)

These are grants for research that explore strategies of cultural mediation and socialisation through gastronomy as an artistic creation.

• Duration, amount and payment of the grant

The amount of the grant is 9,200.00 euros for a duration of 11 months, from 1 September 2024 to 31 July 2025.

The payment of the grant is processed as follows:

1. A first payment, consisting of an advance of 50% of the amount of the grant, as of the publication of the award.

2. A second payment, of 30% of the amount of the grant, once the beneficiary has justified the partial completion of the project, in accordance with the temporary work plan, by means of supporting documentation (a supporting report detailing the activity carried out until then and a planning of the activity to be carried out in the remaining period) in accordance with the temporary work plan of the research project.

3. A third payment of 20% of the amount of the grant, once the beneficiary has justified the completion of the grant project, by means of supporting documentation (the report containing the description of the work phases carried out, according to the nature of the project, the timetable and the methodology used, as well as an explanation of the results obtained and the future prospects). The document must be at least ten pages long.

• Requirements, conditions and incompatibilities

- Natural persons domiciled in Catalonia are eligible to apply for these grants.

- In order to obtain the status of beneficiary, applicants must meet the following requirements and conditions, in addition to those set out in general basis 3:

a) Each applicant may only submit a single application and for a single modality.

b) Applicants must hold a university or higher artistic education degree that accredits the corresponding speciality in accordance with the type of grant applied for, or accredit an academic-technical career related to the type of grant applied for, or accredit a professional career related to the type of grant applied for during a minimum period of three years.

c) The activity must be carried out at the Centre for 11 months between 1 September 2024 and 31 July 2025.

- The grant cannot be awarded to anyone who has obtained another grant in this line twice consecutively or three grants in this line in the last five years.

• How to apply?

These grants must be processed online through the portal of Generalitat. You can also consult the terms and conditions at the same link.

The period for submitting applications is from 9 April to 30 April, both days included.

When submitting the application, the following documentation must be provided, together with the documentation stipulated in general conditions 7 and 11.5:

- Detailed curriculum vitae of the applicant, specifying at least the university or higher artistic education qualifications, academic-technical career or professional career related to the modality applied for, in accordance with the provisions of base 3.1.b).

- Copy of the university or higher artistic education degree that accredits the corresponding speciality and documentation accrediting the academic-technical or professional career that has been included in the applicant's curriculum vitae. In the case of official Spanish university degrees, these do not have to be provided, except in the case of express opposition from the applicant, which the examining body will check ex officio.

- Description of the research project to be carried out, which must be written in Catalan and must indicate: the motivation for the research in relation to the artistic or social context on which it is intended to have an impact; the objectives of the research; the planned methodology and also the means that will be required from the centre. This description may not exceed 3,500 characters or three pages in length.

• Timetable of the call and selection process

Application period: from 9 April to 30 April, both days included.

Information sessions: 3 April at 6 pm. and 16 April at 12 noon.

Communication of shortlisted candidates: week of 20 May.

Interviews: week of 27 May.

Resolution: week of 10 June.

• Informative sessions and resolution of doubts

To solve doubts and to learn about some examples of the research developed in previous editions, we invite you to come to one of the two information sessions. Check the date and time in the 'Calendar' section of this web entry.

For technical questions and incidents in the application process, you can contact: Andreu Carreras (andreucarreras@gencat.cat)

Questions will be answered until the 30th at 13:00 h.

The Santa Mònica technical team will not be able to evaluate the proposals or assess their best fit with the modalities offered by the grants programme.

* Legal note: This text is not the official text of the scholarship conditions and therefore has no legal validity.

Acces to the application form: Portal of Generalitat

Application period: from 9 April to 30 April, both days included.
Information sessions: 3 April at 6 pm. and 16 April at 12 noon.

Communication of shortlisted candidates: week of 20 May.

Interviews: week of 27 May.

Resolution: week of 10 June.

This call has been awarded the Segell de Bones Pràctiques PAAC