Neue Heimat on the road

Neue Heimat on the road is a residence project that offers artists at different stages of their career, and from a wide variety of disciplines (writing, painting, multimedia and video art, new technologies, illustrators and other fields), a mobile working place for a maximum of two weeks. We will support residents in their creative explorations, investigations and artistic growth within an environment of communication and exchange. The artists will be discovering Dresden and its surrounding area, the Saxon Switzerland, the Elbland and Erzgebirge, in a comfortable caravan. The residency covers all costs related to travel and accommodation.

We want to create encounters in Dresden and the surrounding area, from Meissen to the Czech border. A caravan is the perfect place. Its mobile nature offers creatives from all over the world the opportunity to get to know many facets of our region, gather impressions and turn them into projects.

Facts

The program is organized by the bid office Dresden 2025 European Capital of Culture with the support of Capron GmbH.
Six scholarships will be provided in the timeframe of July till September 2019.
One Scholarship includes a 7 to 14 days stay in Dresden and its surrounding countryside in a caravan for two persons.
The residence program is open to artists of all nationalities.
The caravan is provided for unlimited use, including coverage of all costs (mobility, insurance and parking costs.
The duration of your stay depends on your artistic concept.
You have to hand in a concept that deals with this region in Europe.
A jury will decide on the applications.

What we offer

The scholarship includes a caravan and all issued related to mobility (petrol, expenses for a camping slot, etc.).
The grant will be max. 1.000 EUR for a two-week stay. A shorter duration of your stay is possible. The grant then will be reduced to a daily rate of 71,50 EUR.
There is also the possibility to share the scholarship with another artist. In this case the maximum amount of 1000 EUR is increased to 750 EUR per person, in total 1.500 EUR, as daily rate of 53,50 EUR.
We cover your travelling costs to Dresden and back (the cheapest travel connection).
You will be provided with a list with contact persons, sights, appointments, festivities etc. We will publish your work (article, pictures, multimedia, etc.) digitally and analogue. The City of Dresden therefore receives all rights for unrestricted use over time of your in Dresden produced work.

What we expect

You should be interested in the region, its cultural, artistic and creative life, as well as a united Europe.
We expect you to make active research.
Apply with a concept for our stay.
You should be willing to participate in public events of the Bid Office Dresden 2025 and Capron GmbH.
The results of your residence should be published in German, English and a third language.
You will travel around Dresden and its surrounding areas on your own initiative and plan.
The team of the Bid Office will give you any kind of support. The Bid Office Dresden 2025 and Carpron GmbH have the right to use the results of the residency in their own Public Relations.

The legal process is excluded.

Support

To make the beauty of our region even better known, we gladly support this project by providing a CARADO caravan. What suits better for such a project as a vehicle from Saxon production? This allows creatives to be completely independent and to get to know and document Saxony in their very own way.

Daniel Rogalski, CEO CAPRON

Meet the participants

Joshua Strydom

Joshua Strydom is a Zimbabwean born international artist. Strydom uses art as a means for communicating cultural observations, exploring the notion that the foreign enlightens the familiar. He challenges the unconscious social and cultural reflexes that have become habitual
features in our daily lives. While walking the continuum of time and the evolution of memory,extending the two in harmony.

Over the last eight years he has travelled across four continents observing, analysing, and narrating cultural influences. He has spent much time in Saxony developing tourism infrastructure, and will return in September to document the cultural, and natural landscape of
the region through a body of work using digital collage, photography, and writing.

Nicolas Ponton

My project for "Neue Heimat on the road" is called Atlas: seen from afar, it involves a research trip that will trace the development of modern civilization from the bronze age to the present, its advancements (technological and cultural) as well as its setbacks and conflicts.

As we presently take part in the new era of the Anthropocene, more than ever we find ourselves to be responsible of the direction in which to take the progress of human culture and we contemplate how to heal the wounds of the contemporary world. I will travel from Dresden to the Ore mountains, to visit its national parks as well as the old metals and uranium mining sites that are being rehabilitated, then to explore the artificial lakes to the northeast, were enormous coal opencast pits used to be, and were now tourists and local citizens can enjoy nature and recreational activities. And lastly, back to the city of Dresden and the Silicon saxony, were more than 300 tech companies and many research institutes are working on the latest technology.

Miriam M'Barek and Josefine Soppa

The project RE:MAPPING homelands by M'Barek & Soppa deals with maps and various cartographic practices. They search for the connecting lines of (supposed) factuality of a topographic map and subjective experience of space. What is not marked on maps? What remains hidden? How can changing and ambiguous experiences be visualised? Can memories and feelings be mapped?

In view of current narratives about homeland and identity, which are increasingly discussed via territory and demarcation, the medium map will be questioned as a tool of classification, differentiation and exploration. To get to know and archive different perspectives and experiences, the duo renounces a pre-determined route and consciously travels without a map of the Dresden area. They follow instructions of people they happen to meet, or the ones they seek out. Chance and the concrete encounters determine routes, places and stories of the journey through the Dresden surroundings. The result is a mobile archive of perspectives, feelings and experiences as a basis for possible topographies of new "homelands". Miriam M'Barek studied cultural sciences and aesthetic practice. She researches on postmigrant identities from the perspective of sexuality, gender and race. In the field of literature and theatre, she works on projects on collective, multi-perspective writing with questions concerning postcolonial and feminist critique. Josefine Soppa studied Philosophy of the Arts and Media and works as a mediator and theorist with artistic practice in participative and multimedia projects. In this context she is primarily dealing with concepts of justice and possibilities of mediability and experiencability of theoretical discourses.

Diana Arce and Simon Schultz

Politaoke is non-partisan political karaoke project in which participants can respeak real contemporary political speeches from local, national and international politicians. Now you too can deliver the great rhetoric filled speeches of today’s most important politicians in this audience participation performance! Just come to a show, select a speech and take the mic when your name is called. It’s just like Karaoke, but easier since you don’t have to sing!

Politicians are actors, deliverers of words cleverly written by high paid political scientists working as speech writers sent to them via teleprompters. Other times they are professional improvisers, stringing together the current events jargon into sound bits and phrases that are perfect for being cut into newspapers, radio shows and television. But their words, whether powerful, ridiculous or down right wrong, belong to us. Politaoke provides the audience a platform to perform, mock and finally hear and see clearly what their politicians say.

Created by Diana Arce, Politaoke is a natural progression in her work as an artist, filmmaker and activist, who is interested in using artistic methods as a platform to engage in political and cultural critique and commentary in the public realm. Much of her work stems not only from her personal experience, but also from contemporary politics, economics and news. She is also notorious for her prize-winning karaoke performance at Pan Am Lounge in Berlin.

Politaoke stems from a semester of research into the political discourse of contemporary politics. After organizing the the first German/English version of Politaoke in a Bar in Weimar on January 30, she decided to expand and take the project on the road because of the 2008 elections.