Antre Peaux

Antre Peaux currently offers 3 residency programmes in the visual arts. They are an opportunity for first encounters, as well as long-term support for projects and artists, with a focus on both the originality of the projects and their connections to societal issues, alternative ways of living and thinking that are orientated towards the marginal and otherness. Antre Peaux is also a unique resource for research, production and creation due to the themes and aesthetics that intertwine within the structure: ecology, the arts and sciences, technology, queer identities, explorations of the body, all expressed with a rare and precious radicality, hybridity and multidisciplinarity. Its functioning is based on close exchanges between the structure's team and the fostering of collaborations with artists, researchers, technicians and any other key individuals, particularly within the local area.

© Antre Peaux - Friche culturelle à Bourges

Haïdouc residency | visual arts / multimedia
In Hungary, Romania, Albania and Turkey, the term Haïdouc refers to an outlaw or rebel, a “free” person who fights against hegemonic interests and helps poor people to support themselves. At Antre Peaux, this term refers to a work, production and broadcasting space for video, digital and multi-media practices. A multi-purpose space, it can be used as a medialab, a film set, a multimedia set, a project room for residencies, as well as a screening room. An adjoining video editing studio completes the facilities. Complementing the art centre and the other facilities on site, it is a place dedicated to contemporary creation, and more specifically to experimentation with contemporary media.

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

— A residency grant: in accordance with the devenir-art guidelines and the Arts en résidence charter;
— A research or production grant: from €400 to €1,000, depending on the nature of the project;
— Contribution to the artist(s) transport costs;
— €150 per artist to cover copyright during outings;
— Accommodation in a shared house;
— Work space: 109 m² open space with adjoining editing and post-production studio. Accessible to those with reduced mobility;
— Equipment: indoor and outdoor screens, digital video projector, video control room, filming equipment, lighting, control room for reproducing videos and other multi-media equipment.

DURATION

From 15 days to 2 months, depending on the nature and requirements of the project. 
The residency can be split into two periods. 

SELECTION PROCESS 

Based on a project proposal submitted between 6 months and 1 year before the anticipated start of the residency.

UrsuLab residency | arts & sciences 

Launched in 2021, UrsuLab is a transdisciplinary laboratory programme dedicated to biomedia. Through the residency, it offers artists a prospective arts-sciences-fictions-ecologies space that goes beyond anthropocentric visions to imagine the co-development of human and non-human life forms. It includes a microbiology laboratory known as “BSL 1” (biosafety level 1), which complies with the biosafety standard laid down by the World Health Organisation in relation to working with non-pathogenic micro-organisms that pose no health risk. The residencies within this programme are geared towards research and the transmission and sharing of knowledge. It aims to build bridges between teaching and research, between the arts, science and agriculture, and also with companies and laboratories through the projects that are hosted.

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

— A residency grant:  in accordance with the devenir-art guidelines and the Arts en résidence charter;
— A research grant: from €200 to €600, depending on the nature of the project;
— Contribution to the artist(s) transport costs;
— €150 per artist to cover copyright during outings;
— Accommodation in a shared house;
— Work space: a 60 m² “BSL1/PS1” laboratory, particularly suitable for practices requiring a sterile environment. Accessible to those with reduced mobility;
— Laboratory equipment: scales, microscope equipped with camera, fridges and freezers, sterilisers, CO2 incubator, centrifuge and laboratory oven, electric burner, Bunsen burner, heating mantle with stirrer, ultrasonic cleaners, variable-speed Vortex stirrers, magnetic stirrer...;
— Technical support: artists must be able to use the equipment independently.

DURATION

— 15 days to 2 months, depending on the nature and requirements of the project. 
— The residency can be split into two periods. 

SELECTION PROCESS

Based on a project proposal submitted between 6 months and 1 year before the anticipated start of the residency.

EMAP residency - European Media Art Platform | visual media arts and bio-art
EMAP is a platform for mobility, production, dissemination and professional networking supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe Culture programme. Since 2009, through its residency programme now supported by 16 European institutions, EMAP has been providing artists with the opportunity to develop their projects by working in a new environment. With a focus on supporting emerging practices in the visual media arts and bio-art, this residency programme is open to a wide range of contemporary artistic practices: super 16 short films, video art, video installations, interactive installations, software-based projects, including AI, websites, video games, computer animations, performances, sound art projects, robotics and so on. 

This programme is subject to a call for applications. 

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

— A residency grant of €4,000;
— Remuneration for collaborators: €2,000;
— Production grant: €4000;
— Contribution to transport costs: €1,000;
— Accommodation in a shared house;
— Workspace: a 109 m² open space with an adjoining editing and post-production studio (Haïdouc). Accessible to those with reduced mobility;
— Equipment: indoor and outdoor screens, digital video projector, video control room, filming equipment, lighting, control room for reproducing videos and other multi-media equipment.

DURATION

2 continuous months, or two months which can be split into a maximum of two periods. 
Period: between June and the end of December.

SELECTION PROCESS

A call for applications published annually (https://call.emare.eu/).

SHARED RESOURCES

— Support from the technical team (multimedia manager, sound manager, technical managers) and the artistic director of the cultural structure;
— Access to all the multidisciplinary creative spaces, including a construction workshop (190 m2), a sound studio (60 m2), a dance studio (186 m2), a concert hall (200 m2) and other multidisciplinary equipment;
— The friche has a kitchen which is shared by the team and the resident artists.

CONSIDERATION FOR RESIDENTS' FAMILY LIFE

Requests for artists to stay with their families are examined on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the accommodation is suitable. Located just a few minutes' walk from the cultural structure, the shared house has basic facilities for infants aged 18 months to 3 years and several bedrooms, including one on the ground floor, as well as an enclosed garden.     

RESIDENTS' COMMITMENTS

All the obligations of the resident artists, as well as those pertaining to Antre Peaux are set out in a residency contract. These obligations include respecting commitments regarding artists’ presence at certain events, the length of the residency and the equipment and materials provided. Residents undertake to cultivate curiosity surrounding the venue's project, its activities and the individuals involved. Each residency includes an opportunity for artists to share their research or creation project in progress with the public. This event is imagined and developed with the Antre Peaux team. Residents are informed of any professional visits and group or public visits, in order to encourage encounters and to organise studio visits whenever possible. Antre Peaux and resident artists are jointly involved in documenting the residency. At the end of each residency, a feedback session is organised.  

ACTIONS AIMED AT THE PUBLIC

The visitors department draws on discussions with residents prior to their visit, enabling it to propose activities aimed at the public in connection with the research or creation projects of resident artists. Artists can be involved in this process and co-construct the proposals, as part of an approach that can feed into their projects. Artists are paid for any specific activities they develop separately.