Khoj International Public Art Projects
Call for Applications

Applications are invited for an International Artists Residency @ Khoj, for public art projects exploring themes of environment & ecology in public spaces around Delhi for 4- 6 weeks in January 2010.

Delhi, the capital city of India, could easily qualify today as one amongst the world's most dynamic and complex urban settings in contemporary times. Characterized by its unique multi-layered
historicity and multiple urbanisms Delhi however, is facing a relentless pace of contemporary urban growth making it one of the rapidly expanding cities of the world.

City based research on 8 public sites in Delhi can be viewed from this link:
http://www.48c.org/spaces.html

We invite proposals from individual artists and artist collectives, with projects that hope to raise consciousness by the arts in response to urgent ecological issues affecting Delhi & the world, as also exploring the relationship between environment and art.

The applications should include the following:
- Artist biography & images of previous projects
- Concept Note
- Budget for the proposed project

Please send your proposals to:
publicart@khojworkshop.org

Deadline: 30 September 2009

More information:
http://khojworkshop.org

(Summarized from a press release of the organizer)

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