Fresh A.I.R.

Information

The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships will be awarded for 12 months. The value of the scholarship amounts to a total of 1,900 euros per person, per month. This amount is broken down, as follows:

• Rent-free living (including electricity and Wi-Fi) of around 1,000 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of living subsidy of 500 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of materials subsidy  of 300 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of travel subsidy (fares within Berlin and surrounding areas) of 100 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Coverage of the second home tax for the duration of the stay.

For questions about the scholarship, please write an email to FreshAIR-office@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.

Funding Priorities

Information

The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships of the Stiftung Berliner Leben offer art and cultural practitioners the time, space and resources to devote themselves to an artistic project. Up to 13 European artists are invited to the artist‘ residencies in Berlin Schöneberg for 12 months. The current call is for the 8th year starting in January 2023 and ending in December 2023.

Thematic call  – »LINGUISTIC XPEDITION «

The 8th year of Fresh A.I.R. is running under the title »LINGUISTIC XPEDITION«. It refers to the traditions of the artistic-literary avant-garde that dealt experimentally with language, such as Italian Futurism or multinational Dadaism. This also includes subsequent interdisciplinary and cultural-critical movements such as French Lettrism or Russian Transfurism.

In this year, the act of speech as a constitutive element of human perception and communication will be the focus of attention. The examination and the creation of verbal-linguistic actions are just as much of interest as the analysis of verbal thinking and verbal action. Aspects of current debates on the structural power of language, language-critical standards or the enforcement of discrimination-free language are to be advanced in creative ways. In addition, the scriptural form of language will be regarded as well as and potential forms of development of written language are to be worked out experimentally.

Funding will be provided for:

• projects that explore an experimental approach to spoken language and in which the involvement of local participants is included
• projects that focus on aspects of everyday language use and/or language and its communicative potential, critically reflecting on it in a linguistic-artistic-performative way or in autonomous, typographic forms of expression
• projects that focus on the further development of written language (expressive power, functionality, etc.) or rethink linguistic signs in digital space (multimodality, interactivity, etc.)

Application

With the Fresh A.I.R. scholarships, the Stiftung Berliner Leben supports:

• artists from EU member states residing outside of Berlin,
• artists from Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway
• artists from the field of Urban and New Contemporary Art, and
• artists seeking cross-genre exchange with art forms of Urban Contemporary Art.

General Requirements

• The project must be clearly recognizable as a current and unpublished project and meet the quality standards of the program.
• There is a residence requirement.
• Grant applications and grants from third institutions must be communicated.
• Each scholarship holder commits to prepare and implement a workshop.
• Each scholarship holder undertakes to attend events of funding partners and the UN Museum (for example, readings, panel discussions, talks, etc.).
• Each fellow agrees to attend a final presentation of works.
• There is a willingness for cultural and artistic exchange with the Stiftung Berliner Leben and the Berlin area.
• Further conditions and exclusion criteria can be found in the funding guidelines.

The scholarship has no age limit. It is irrelevant whether the applicant has a university degree or not. Scholarships are awarded to individuals. Former scholarship holders of the Fresh A.I.R. scholarship are excluded from reapplying.
Application deadline is Saturday, 30th April 2022.

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Jury

Selection is made by a rotating jury. The decision of the jury is final and may not be challenged. There is no legal claim to the awarding of a Fresh A.I.R. scholarship. Applicants will be notified of the decisions, but not the reasoning.

For questions about the scholarships or the jury , please write an email to FreshAIR-office@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.