Mobile Artistic Platform is a transdisciplinary traveling platform that will move across different locations in South India. At the core of the project is a commitment to foster meaningful interactions and vital collaborations between Asian, Indian and international artists through participatory and new media tools.

18th October - 15th November 2010

The participation is open to 6 International/Indian/Asian participants from different artistic/creative backgrounds.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 20th AUGUST 2010

The experimental format of this project will try to address a series of issues concerning sustainable tourism, cross-cultural exchange and hospitality. Some generic questions will lead the traveling residency and the creative collaborations between the artists and the people, places and practices encountered:

* In which ways the act of traveling can be understood as a learning process, as well as becoming a space for creative collaborations?

* How can we approach mobility in terms of artistic process?

* What forms of exchange can activate a critical reflection on the relationship between different sets of polarization (perception/projection, observer/observed,   inclusion/exclusion, artist/tourist)?

The group will travel through a series of locations that will frame the specificity of our investigations.  At the junction between travel and artistic production what is important for us to explore are the ways through which self-organization and creative exchange could be initiated and experienced collectively.

The project will culminate with an open studio presentation at 1Shanti RoadGallery in Bangalore. After the completion of the project a website and a web-based radio station/podcast will act as the archives of all the visual/textual/aural material  produced during the platform.

M.A.P. is organised by Reloading Images (Berlin) in collaboration with Maraa Media Collective and CitySpinning (Bangalore, India).

Supported by: ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) and ANA (Arts Network Asia).

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