Fully-Funded Orbitals Program for Art Curators and Researchers in Brazil with Mophradat 2023

Mophradat invites curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to join the Orbitals program, which will be a ten-day guided research trip that will take the participants along with the members and the team to meet and share experiences with peers in the art scenes and communities they are visiting. This year’s edition is taking place in November, with an introduction to some of the art activity in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The trip will focus on questions around the right to land, art’s relationship to gentrification, and how to occupy space. 

Mophradat will cover airfare, travel insurance, and visa costs, and provide participants with accommodation and per diems.

1. Applicants must be curators and/or researchers from the field of contemporary arts (all disciplines are welcome).
2. Applicants must be from or living in the Arab world.
3. Applicants must have at least five years’ professional work experience in a field of contemporary arts.
4. Applicants must be able to demonstrate prior experience working on international projects, exchange, or collaboration in their home country or abroad.
5. Applicants must be able to demonstrate their engagement with a specific project that they are developing.
6. Applicants must be available to participate for the entire duration of the trip, and commit to taking part in all its activities and complete schedule.

Process:

1. All applicants, whether selected or not, will receive a response to their applications by September 10, 2022.
2. The participants will be selected by Mophradat and one external advisor.
3. During the trip or shortly thereafter, the group will be asked to produce a collective narrative in a format of their choosing that reflects on their trip and shares with a broader public some of the knowledge they have encountered.

 About Muphradat:

Mophradat is a Belgian association and its office is in Brussels. It was founded in 2004 as the Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF), and in 2015 changed its name to better accommodate and reflect its evolving mandate and scope of activity. Also, it is an international nonprofit contemporary art association that creates opportunities for thinking, producing, and sharing among contemporary artists from the Arab World and their peers everywhere. Mophradat sees its activities as tools—artistic, discursive, logistical, and financial—for artists and cultural thinkers to use toward inventing new art practices, arts organizations, and art publics. Mophradat believes the content—ideas, artworks, and relationships—generated through its activities contributes to diversifying the artistic and intellectual ecology; making it more vital and compelling, and able to play an emancipatory role in the Arab World and elsewhere.

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