Artist in Residence South Africa, AiRSA, is a registered NPO 243-824, offering funded annual artist residencies in South Africa, for emerging, mid-career and established national and international artists.
Artists in Residence programs give artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, providing them with time to reflect, research, and produce work based on the experiences in the given environment. Artist residencies have become intrinsic to many artistic careers.
Residencies enable artists to do fieldwork and to work on-site, in order to map out, collect, research and generate new perspectives. This kind of ‘embedded research’ contributes to public and professional awareness. It reinforces the concept of artists’ residencies as cells of knowledge and alternative academies.
We particularly encourage artists to explore ‘place’ as a concept which incorporates the environment and the people who engage with it. We believe that artworks created at our residencies not only imply a respect for place, but also a desire to reveal and comment upon our relationship with it, rather than exploiting it for the sake of art.
Our Current residencies include The Tankwa Artscape & Bodhi Khaya Residencies.
Documentation for both residencies is through video, photography and audio podcasts. We provide a group of photographers / videographers to document artworks and artistic processes.
Kim Goodwin
artistinresidencesouthafrica@gmail.com
AIRSA NPO 243 824
PO Box 649 Ceres 6835