Platform to explore your potential

BANGALORE: Are you a researcher or an artist interested in exploring how artistic practices are constructed and come to be regarded as ‘tradition’ or studying the changing practices in the contemporary arts? Here is an opportunity to explore your talents. Indian Foundation for the Arts is granting scholarships for those interested in artst. This grant programme supports scholars / researchers and artists to undertake research and documentation projects that critically examines how artistic traditions are constructed or reinvented and that seeks to study new developments in contemporary arts practice.The applicants must discuss the ideas or send a draft proposal for suggestions and comments before June 30, 2012. Final applications should be in hard copy should be July 31, 2012. Funds will cover only project-related personnel costs, activities and travel, and provides for modest equipment and materials, if necessary. Each budget category pertains to a specific item of project-related expenditure.  To apply, the applicant must send a proposal describing the specific artistic tradition(s) or contemporary art practice that the applicant seeks to research and/or document. The proposed outcomes of the project must also be sent.The proposal will be considered incomplete if the applicants does not include the supporting material, if any, which gives us a sense of work. If an applicant is applying on behalf of an institution, he/she must include background information on the organisation as well as the memorandum of association/trust deed, annual reports, and audited statements of accounts for the past three years. An applicant is eligible to apply if he or she is an Indian national, or have been resident in India for at least five years.