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theYard.Residency.25

15th version of the artistic residency program at Vinegar Factory

 

 

The Center of Performing Arts MITOS announces the Open Call for participation in the artistic residency program, theYard.Residency.25, and invites professional creators or artistic groups to respond with proposals on the thematic the day after, for the program of 2025.

 

What is theYard.Residency:

The Center of Performing Arts MITOS organizes the annual residency program of theYard.Residency since 2011, based at the art space Vinegar Factory in Lemesos that works as a safe environment for creation, gathering, hospitality and presentation. Having as a core the body and it’s performativity, theYard supports inter-artistic and interdisciplinary collaborations. It is a residency program that develops co-productions with creators and groups from Cyprus and abroad throughout the year.  It is evolving into an important platform for free artistic expression, experimentation and examination, exchange and mobility. It strengthens the dialogue on the issues of polyphony, of multiple narratives, of active relationship with the city, participation and democratization.

 

 

This year’s version

For this edition of theYard.25, the artistic director of the program, Elena Agathokleous, invited an artistic team to propose the concept of the year and make some changes to the structure of the program. The artistic team are Constantina Peter (creative director, dramaturge), Ioulita Toumazi (art theorist, curator), Evita Ioannou (director).

 

The theme οf 2025:

An important factor in shaping theYard.Residency.25 program will be the understanding and response of the proposals on the general theme of MITOS for 2025:

the day after  becomes a prompt to reflect on this open-ended concept that asks: How could the day after look, feel or be like ,’the after now’.  It becomes a gesture towards imagining the day that is yet to come, a different day, a new day. It can have light or darkness, or both. But “the day after” always implies a futurity that is in itself a political statement in our current world where even imagining the day after feels difficult. It follows the idea that the act of imagining the future, which connotes hope for different days and another world, is a radical act towards change.

 

The projects can either focus on the micro- or tha macro-scale of “the day after”, the personal or the collective, the  mundane or the grandiose days after. Just make sure, there will be a day after.

 

 

Categories:

Through the Open Call, proposals from creators or artistic groups will be selected to develop their own idea until the final form of their performance or activity. The residency program, because of its structure (see below), concerns mostly professional creators or artistic groups who live and work in Cyprus. However, organizations from abroad who are interested in exchanging activities or artists, can contact mitos@mitos.org.cy for the possibility of collaboration.

 

1.Category RESIDENTS: creators/artistic groups are invited to develop ideas until the final form of their performance/activity. Priority will be given to proposals that stand out for their expressive form, willingness to experiment, modern approach and methodology, in interdisciplinary and inter-artistic projects. The category is open to performance works that converse, complement, and interact with other art disciplines. The duration of the residency for each project will be 10 days.

 

2.Category 24HOUR SHOT: creators/artistic groups are invited to use the Vinegar Factory for 24 hours. The category concerns ideas that enrich the cultural scene of Cyprus, bring the community together and/or raise critical and urgent questions regarding current affairs. It concerns creative works, community projects, gatherings, readings, research presentations, participatory meals, workshops, etc.

 

Criteria:

  1. The proposals should be related to the theme of the organization as mentioned above.
  2. Priority will be given to the proposals that stand out for their performative form, the temp for experimentation, the contemporary approach and methodology, the collaboration with other arts and sciences.
  3. Priority will be given to collective proposals, without excluding solos.
  4. Those interested should be able to commit to their participation in the program meetings and arts labs.

 

 

 

Program structure:

  • 25th of January: Meeting day of organizers and participants at Vinegar Factory. This meeting will include information on the organization of the productions, use of technical equipment, promotion, communication, vocabulary and conditions of the program. Presentations of the participant’s draft project ideas.
  • February: Workshops and talks with external speakers and collaborators from other fields of arts and sciences, that will present other practices and methodologies.
  • March – October: Period of residency, performances and productions.
  • November: Final meeting for reviewing and exchanging thoughts between organizers and participants.

 

Framework of Collaboration:

 

  • All participations are consider to be a co-production with MITOS in the frame of the residency program.
  • Free use of the Vinegar Factory. The final number of residency days and dates will be decided with the organizers, according to the participants’ needs and the availability of the space.
  • Free use of technological equipment and infrastructure of the Vinegar Factory.
  • Free technical support from professional technician for each participation in a specific timeframe.
  • All incomes from tickets will belong to the artists. Participants can apply and claim grants for their production. To facilitate applications for funding, MITOS may provide certificates of participation upon request.
  • All the selected participations have the same promotion and treatment by the organization. MITOS participates, but does not undertake the full promotion of the selected proposals.
  • Participants will receive archival audiovisual recording of their work in digital format.

 

 

Proposal submission:

The deadline for submission of proposals is the 10th of January 2025, 16:00pm. For the proposal to be valid, the applicant must complete the participation form here: https://forms.gle/FuBa4tTfMF95UCrS6

Proposals will be reviewed by an evaluation team of theYard. Answers will be sent with mail to all proposals with elaborated answers, by the 19th  of January 2025. For questions and requests of more information please contact MITOS via the email: theYard.Residency@mitos.org.cy.