Open call: Sound Art Residency 2024-25 programme in Paris

The Sound Art Residency is open exclusively to artists who come from the following continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. There is no age limit to apply. The jury will give precedence to pieces conceived in connection with the museum’s collections, interests and theme.

The winning project will be chosen in the spring of 2024 by an international jury that will bring together various personalities from the world of sound and audio-visual creation. The museum will pay the winning artist an endowment of €8 000 (about $8 700) and will also finance the production of the sound work, which will be presented to the public and may become part of the museum's collections.

As part of the Sound Art Residency, the museum will finance a work of sound art that may enter its permanent collection. The work produced during the residency may be a trans-disciplinary piece, and not strictly a work of sound art. However, the main component of the piece must be sound of any type (music, spoken or sung voices and ambient sound).

The jury will give precedence to pieces conceived in connection with the museum’s collections, interests and theme. If it is pertinent, the artist may have access to the museum’s audio and audio- visual archives or to the collection of musical instruments.

The space called Music Box, located on level R2 of the museum, is a place dedicated to the presentation of musical or audio-visual works. The works produced as part of the Sound Residency are presented in this space. Consequently, the Music Box must be part of the project proposed by the laureate, either as an installation or as a mediation space.

While the spaces at the museum can be the place for the inaugural presentation of the work, the piece must be adaptable to other places and spaces. The different spaces of the museum are presented in an annex to this opening call. At the end of the residency, the work will be presented to the museum’s public in a manner determined by the artist and explained in the application (performance, discussion and workshop).

Calendar

• Applications must be received by 18 February 2024.
• May 2024: Selection of the laureate after an interview.
• June 2024 to February 2025: Research and creation, with two creative sessions at the museum in Paris and Le Fresnoy. 
• Mid-March 2025: End of the residency and public presentation of the piece.

Application process

Applications must contain the following elements:

• The application form, filled out and signed by the candidate (in case of a project submitted by several people, each member of the collective must fill in a form).
• A letter of intention detailing the project (maximum two typed pages, written in French or in English).
• A biography of the candidate retracing the main points of his or her training, professional activity, exhibitions and/or events he or she has participated in, agencies and/or galleries, publications, grants or prizes he or she may have won (written in French or English.
• A photocopy of the candidate’s valid identity document.
• Links to digital documents (WeTransfer, SoundCloud, etc.), and, where appropriate, printed documents showing current and past work and, insomuch as is possible, the piece he or she intends to create during the residency.
• A detailed technical description of the proposed project including:
  • A technical description.
  • A budget permitting evaluation of the production costs of the project.
  • The number and type of pre-existing audio or audio-visual sources (if relevant).

Applicants should submit their applications via email at residencesonore@quaibranly.fr before 18 February.

Click here for the application call and its appendices.

View the original call here.