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[ R.A.T. ] - M.É.X.I.C.O. Residencias Artísticas por Intercambio
As a transdisciplinary research and aesthetic exploration project, [R.A.T.] aims at creating alternative spaces for the development of creative proposals of artistic production, cultural reflection and dialogue between local communities, artists, curators, cultural managers, critics, art theorists, and scholars working on different disciplines from Mexico and other countries through an artist-in-residence program that operates under the logic of exchange.
Since 2003 [ R.A.T.] has promoted the production of independent and emerging contemporary art via different open calls for projects and workshops that have contributed to enrich, foster, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and the development of aesthetic proposals with social vein. The project is based upon the belief that transdisciplinary practice breaks through the rigid structures of specialized thought widening the scope of creativity.
[ R.A.T.], in its character as an exchange based artist-in-residence program, assumes that contact between different social realities through direct interaction among actors of different provenance is the best means to establish mechanisms for the exchange of experience, reflection, and dialogue regarding issues that affect marginal communities, as well as those enjoying better economic conditions. Therefore, through the launching of thematic calls for residencies and other forms of sponsorship that stimulate contemporary art, [R.A.T.] intends to further new models for the production and dissemination of culture, setting a precedent, within the public sphere, for future generations. To enlarge the cultural offer propitiating a wider cultural consumption at the local level can also have an impact at the global scale through the practice of exchange.
Our residency program is meant to trigger plurality in the reading and interpretation of any given object or phenomenon and the specific social process and context it associates with. Following Hal Foster in The Return of the Real, this project acknowledges that art rests upon an axis of “horizontal, synchronic, social operation” no longer located within the institutional space, the predominance of which has receded before other networks of discourse now linked to artistic production. A major line of work in contemporary art results in the production of objects and actions addressing social processes and relations linked to specific economic and cultural dynamics such as inequality, social exclusion, marginality, the operation of capital and free markets, political movements, gender relations and identities, the space patterns of urban settlement and the distribution of wealth. Art is conceived in this project accordingly, as a vehicle for cultural, ideological, and social exchange directly involved in the construction of a public sphere wherein different positions and perspectives concur. Art products thus created shall not necessarily be exhibited in the kind of spaces traditionally designed for artistic circulation and promotion such as museums and galleries. Instead they will alight upon other environments marking other sorts of relations with the community they nurtured from and the individuals that constitute it.
According to this principle [R.A.T.] supports projects that interact with, or reflect about, the hosting local, regional or national community (Mexico), without this implying their dialogic disconnection with other spheres and latitudes.
PERMANENT CALL [R.A.T.]
Residency Program promotes the technical and intellectual exchange between artists and other cultural practitioners (critics, theorists, film makers, anthropologists, historians, architects, etc.). The Residence is defined as an opportunity to build communication channels and develop site specific projects. The process of production, reception, and appropriation of art and culture in this program is expected to keep an open, non-elitist profile (as far as possible). Our system, based on the home exchange idea, offersone participation modalitie, the minimum stay is one week and the maximum is four within the same calendar year. Our venues, located in Mexico City, are open all year round. [R.A.T.] Coordinators will decide upon the assignation of the host-residency according to space availability and project specific requirements.
• Residence in exchange of work: interested artists must generate or complete at least two pieces at the residency, one of which will be donated to [R.A.T.] Documentation Collection in exchange of lodging.
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