Arts Collaboratory is a program promoted by Hivos and DOEN Foundation to support independent visual arts organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and social innovation. The program is having a major role in providing fundings for contemporary art and practices in countries where few resources in this field are available.Polly T. Stupples, Breaking the frame: Art in international development, Ph.D. thesis, Massey University, Turitea, New Zealand, 2011, pp. 56-57; Iolanda Pensa, La Biennale de Dakar comme projet de coopération et de développement, Ph.D. thesis, EHESS-Politecnico di Milano, 2011, pp. 150 and 295.
History The program was established in 2007 by the Dutch organizations Hivos and DOEN Foundation and it is implemented in collaboration with Mondriaan Foundation.
Activities The program provides funding and it supports knowledge sharing and artistic exchange. The fundings are Long term support for independent visual arts organizations focusing on collaborative art practices and social innovation. The supports addresses independent visual organizations based in Africa, Asia and Latin America and it is provided for a 28 month-programme. Project Fund for ‘Visual Arts and Social Innovation’ (up to 15'000 euro per project).
Partner Country Project Period References Note Ugandan Arts Trust Uganda Artistic Exchange David Bade and 32º East open African Artists' Foundation Nigeria LagosPhoto Festival open ArtBakery Cameroon Present Perfect! open ArtEast Kyrgyzstan Art East Summer School, Boom Boom open Ateliers Sahm Congo open Britto Arts Trust Bangladesh Britto 4th International Artists' Workshop, Britto International Artists' Workshop 2013, Britto New Media Festival 2009 open Casa Tres Patios Colombia Residency Programme in Medellín open CCA Lagos - Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos Nigeria On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise open CEIA Brazil Conversations, Drawing Revisited, MIP2 – Manifestaçao Internacional de Performance, Permeabilities open Centre Soleil d'Afrique Mali Festival Africain d’Images Virtuelles Artistiques (FAIVA), Kevin Dalton Johnson’s Art Residency at Centre Soleil d’Afrique open Coeur d’Artistes Congo open doual'art Cameroon doual'art - SUD 2010, Le Jardin Sonore de Bonamouti open Enough Room For Space The Netherlands Present Perfect! open First Floor Gallery Harare Zimbabwe open Hotel MariaKapel The Netharldans Elopement: A lovable exchange between The Netherlands and Cameroon open Invisible Borders Nigeria open Kër Thiossane Senegal Afropixel #3 open KHOJ International Artists Association India Empire Project, Ghoomakkad Toli – A Community Theatre Project at Khirkee Village, Khoj International Residency Programme, Khoj's Satpula Super Series II, Reconciling Ecologies in the Millenium City, The Khoj Marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist: A Series of Public Conversations open KIOSKO Bolivia "Salta Charcos", Artists residencies in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Curator-in-Residence Programme at KIOSKO, Make a Forest open L'Artocarpe Guadeloupe open Les Palettes du Kamer Cameroon RAVY international festival of visual arts open Lugar a Dudas Colombia Sala de Estar, Sala de Estar: Workshop with Juan Mejía open Made in Mirrors Foundation The Netherlands, Brazil, China, Egypt open Makan Jordan open Making Snowballs The Netherlands open Más Arte Más Acción Colombia Chocó Base, Nuevatopia open MAVA Benin open Mohile Parikh Center for Visual Arts (MPCVA) India Traversing Precincts in Art open NIMk, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst The Netherlands open Nubuke Foundation Ghana open PICHA ASBL Democratic Republic of Congo Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Andrea Stultiens, Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Lard Buurman open Raw Material Company Senegal open ruangrupa Indonesia A Joburger in Jakarta: notes on Ruangrupa and the Art of the Network, Ok.Video Comedy, ruangrupa and the shared history between Indonesia and the Netherlands open Sàn Art Vietnam open SMBA The Netherlands Focus on doual'art open Taleb Cherche Midi Morocco Arab Media Lab, Digital Marrakech open Taller Multinacional Mexico Circulo de Ocio, Viernes Social open The One Minutes Africa The Netherlands, Egypt open Theertha Sri Lanka A Land Where Thousands of Eyes and Minds are Pleased, Mapping Broken Hands and Goodwill Hardware, Sethusamudurum Art Project, Sethusamudurum Art Project - Work in Progress open Time_Frame The Netherlands open Townhouse Gallery Egypt Speak, Memory; Townhouse Independent Study Program open Triangle Arts Trust International International Art Residencies at Batiscafo, Knowledge and Skills Sharing Residency Programme open Vasl Artists/Collective Pakistan Vasl International Artists' Workshop, Vasl International Artists' Workshop, 2012 open Very Real Time South Africa Going inside time open Artellewa Egypt Artellewa Artist-in-Residence Programme, STOP: Artist Residency at Artellewa closed Bat Centre South Africa closed Cascoland The Netherlands ArtEast and Cascoland, 'the real Kyrgyzstan artists', Dye Fixing closed CCAEA Kenya Amnesia, NomadicMILK closed Centraal Museum Utrecht The Netherlands closed el despacho Mexico 'Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner' closed Espira / La Espora Nicaragua TACON at Espira/La Espora, Themes and contents of pedagogical art practice closed Greatmore Studies South Africa Visiting Artists' Residency at Greatmore closed IVAA Indonesia The Archive Development Series Programme closed Kuona Trust Kenya 15 Years Legacy of Kuona Trust, Urban Wasanii International Artist's Workshop 2008 closed LOT - La Otra Orilla Peru Jan Fabre inspires Peruvian theatre company LOT, LOT project about sustainable landscape development in Peru closed MOCA United States closed MUA Honduras Moving the Map closed Museo Blanes/Harto espacio Uruguay closed n.e.w.s. The Netherlands closed P.A.P.A., Participating Artists Press Agency The Netherlands P.A.P.A. Labs closed PULSE South Africa closed Showroom Mama The Netherlands Project(OR) Art Fair closed TEOR/éTica Costa Rica closed Troca-Trocas Brazil closed
See also Hivos DOEN Foundation Prince Claus Fund
References
Bibliography Jos Schuring, Artscollaboratory, programme by Hivos, DOEN and Mondriaan Stichting in "The Power of Culture", June 2007. Arts Collaboratory: Best Practice Presentation, res artis, Amsterdam, 2008.
External links Arts Collaboratory website Arts Collaboratory on the DOEN Foundation website Arts Collaboratory on the Hivos website Arts Collaboratory on C& Platform for International art from African Perspective