Visual Arts - Embodied Making: Performance Art, Images and Objects

This program invites visual artists to think expansively about performance, and how performance emerges through movement, stillness, reading, listening, endurance, care and collective action. Further, it invites artists to investigate the ways that performance and materiality intersect, considering how images and forms are activated, transformed, and given meaning through embodied interaction. Through individual studio-based experimentation and collective inquiry, artists will explore and create new relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces. Banff’s extraordinary landscape and natural surroundings inevitably become collaborators in the creative process, offering opportunities for site-responsive and place-based investigations. Visual Arts residencies at Banff Centre are structured programs of faculty-led activity and mentorship, supporting project-based studio practice. This program supports: the development of theoretical concepts and artistic ideas through independent research alongside faculty-led activities and workshops one-to-one faculty mentorship through studio visits and faculty meetings the development of technical skills through experimentation and skill-based learning assisted by staff technicians peer-to-peer informal learning related to studio and professional practice the development of a professional community towards developing and sustaining an artistic career Artists are assigned individual studios with access to shared production facilities. Knowledgeable staff are available to provide technical assistance. Please take note of the program itinerary when planning your project proposal. Facility access is based on availability of facilitators and priority goes to those requesting access in their initial applications. Deadline February 17, 2027

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