The Watermill Center / Métamatic Research Initiative (MRI) Partnership
The Métamatic Research Initiative (MRI) is commissioning six individual art works in line with both Jean Tinguely's vision and Robert Wilson's mission from artists working in all mediums: object-based art, time-based art, performance, conceptual art, computer-initiated art, theater and others. Watermill and MRI will collaborate on the development of one or two of the selected proposals.
Application Deadline (EXTENDED)
Applications should be submitted before September 1, 2010 and will be considered for a Spring 2011 Residency.
How to Apply
Visit MRI to submit your application making a special request to spend time in residence at the Watermill Center during a research and creation phase. The selection committee will also make recommendations to artists to use this option.
Application Process
Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by a committee of two museum directors, two scholars and a renowned artist, all selected by MRI. A shortlist of proposals will be recommended to Watermill's selection committee, which meets shortly thereafter. The one to two selected artists will spend one or more two- to four-week residencies at the Watermill Center on Long Island in the fall 2010 and spring 2011 seasons. MRI will provide funding for the development and creation of these works and support the residency periods at the Watermill Center.
About the Métamatic Research Initiative
The Métamatic Research Initiative's aim is to promote research on the topic of authorship and authenticity in artistic processes whereby both viewers and objects play a decisive role in the creation of the work. At the same time the Initiative strives to promote research that places Tinguely within his historical and the contemporary context.
The Métamatic Research Initiative plans to develop a wide range of activities to achieve its aims, both in artistic and academic fields. The goal is to produce a number of seminal works of art and groundbreaking academic research, both dealing with the issue of authorship, as well as the role of the object and of the viewer in contemporary art. We hope that this will ultimately lead to a better understanding of the importance of the Métamatic works, and bring about a lively exchange on the topic of authorship and artistic authenticity.
The Métamatic Research Initiative is an initiative of the All Art Initiatives Foundation, based in Amsterdam.
The foundation is a privately funded non-profit foundation set up to stimulate visual art through the funding of:
- artistic and academic research.
- monographs on artists and other publications.
- projects that will increase exposure and make the media available to a wider audience.
- the incorporation of relevant works in public collections, both in the Netherlands and abroad.
For further information, please visit www.allartinitiatives.org