Argentina Invites Proposals to Activate Heritage. Through the open call, “Activar Patrimonio,” the Ministry of Culture invites artists to submit proposals that highlight the diverse heritage of Argentina. Between October 11 and November 11, artists, researchers, and curators will be able to apply for research grants on community heritage.
The Ministry of Culture, through the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage, will award 10 (ten) scholarships of $300,000 pesos ($2,015 US dollars) each to artists, researchers, and curators from all over the country to carry out, during the period of between two and four months, a work proposal that promotes, values and disseminates the richness, uniqueness and diversity of the heritage of the entire Argentine territory. The focus is on the preservation and dissemination of records, collections and collections of historical and cultural value for the communities that protect them.
Artists, musicians, actors or actresses, performers, poets, writers, playwrights, essayists, curators and researchers from all disciplines and areas of knowledge, advanced or in training, who have Argentine citizenship or permanent residence in the country, without age restriction, are invited to apply.
Those who participate in the call must accredit the endorsement of one or a referent of the community linked to the cultural heritage on which the project will focus. The amount of each scholarship includes both the project’s own expenses and travel expenses.
The work proposal may be an academic, curatorial or artistic research. The format and/or support chosen for the presentation of the final result is freely chosen (printed and/or digital text, artistic installation, audiovisual production, 3D model, digital and/or face-to-face sample, etc.).
The presentations may address topics related to one of the following axes:
Communities of original peoples: Cultural assets, collections, documents and archives from the distant past and of recent context with the aim of rescuing materials and symbols that allow us to know the cultures of the original peoples who live in the Argentine national territory through texts, oral stories, archaeological pieces or natural and social heritage.
Communities linked to immigrants and migrants: Projects on the material, symbolic and historical heritage, and enhancement of the imaginaries linked to the stories and material culture from migrant groups, both those who arrived from Europe to the Argentine Republic in the stage emblematic of the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, such as the internal migratory currents from the provinces to the cities, those from neighboring countries in the mid-20th century, and the presence in recent decades of new groups originating from other regions.
Communities and groups of cultural diversity: Critical inquiry into the different ways of remembering and narrating the history, past and present of groups that have been made invisible, subalternized or that have been the object of racialization, such as Afro-Argentine people and brown identities, among others, since the multicultural perspective and decolonial thought.
Communities and groups of sexual diversity and gender identity: Critical inquiry into the different ways of remembering the history, past and present of women’s groups, the LGTBIQ+ community among other cases, and histories from feminisms, multicultural perspectives and decolonial thought.
Argentina Invites Proposals to Activate Heritage
The definition of the priority axes of interest is not exclusive; however, the presentation of other proposals must be duly justified.
The applications may be individual or collective. In the latter case a member must be designated as responsible for the presentation.
The call will be open from October 11, 2022 to November 11, 2022.
Applications will be received exclusively through the platform of the Registro Federal de Cultura.
Soledad Quartucci | Latina Republic
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