Art and Design Residency - Water, Climate, materiality is awarding a three-month residency to a promising artist, (social) designer, architect and/or environmental activist. The aim of the residency by MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaumin Hamburg is the development of a project engaging the topic of water-related climate change inspired by the materials, technologies and/or ecological knowledge in the museum’s collections. The residency is planned for September - November 2021 and is taking place in the context of the EU-Project "Taking Care".
The Thematic Focus based on "Water", in the form of floods, droughts, or as a scarce, contested resource, plays a central role in the unpredictability of the climate crisis.
Submittable for artistic or (social) design project that explores strategies at the intersection of knowing and imagining and engages the museum’s holdings as a storehouse of ecological knowledge in the face of water-related effects of climate change. The artistic project will be presented in an accompanying exhibition planned at the museum under the heading “Designing Sustainable Futures”, which will open as part of the TAKING CARE Project in March 2022. Presentation of work in the form of an artist talk, conversation or performance + The residency will be documented on the MARKK’s website and the TAKING CARE Project website.
Incl.: Travel and subsistence 4.000 €, Artist honorarium including production/material costs 11.000 €, Access to the museum’s holdings and archives, a work place within the museum.