Deadline: 7 May 23:59 CET
Residency dates: 10 March – 6 April 2025
Contemporary media are permeated by misleading content that serves motives of financial and personal gain. Within this economy, authenticity—the quality of being real, genuine or true – carries a high premium. Influencers trade on their authenticity to sell their followers a model of what and how to be. Fake news spreads uncertainty and lies, and erodes trust. Politicians seesaw on policies in pursuit of public favour. By contrast, art supposedly exists outside of the need for truth or purpose—so what is the place of authenticity in the context or art today?
The practice of artist and PRAKSIS residency convenor Harold Offeh explores concepts and questions raised by the inhabiting and embodying of histories, including the notion of authenticity. In this residency, Offeh invites participants to probe the concept of authenticity. Questions include: What are the distinctions between the authentic and the fake? Where are their boundaries (if they exist)? Today, what does it mean to be authentic, in the domains of both art and society?
For this residency, Harold Offeh is seeking to convene an internationally diverse group of practitioners, individuals or collective members who will bring a range of critical and practical approaches to concepts of authenticity. The residency will offer a space to share ideas and resources, engage in both individual and shared activities and test out concepts and plans.
This residency is supported by Culture Moves Europe and offers a stipend of €700 (€25 per day) plus a travel bursary for four residents based in the EU outside of Norway. The travel grant will be related to the distance involved and the method of travel chosen. Further funding is available for disability support, based on eligibility.
About Harold Offeh
Artist Harold Offeh works in various media, including performance, video, photography, social arts practice and pedagogy. His work explores the concepts and questions that are raised by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. Humour plays an important role in his playful yet biting performative excavations of identity within historical and contemporary cultural tropes. He has exhibited widely at venues in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan.
The open call deadline of 7 May is fast approaching: don’t delay in sending us your application!
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Billede: Harold Offeh, Selfie Choreography Workshop, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK 2020. Photo: Ashley Carr