Open Call for ODD ONE OUT Art Residencies, hosted by Platform in 2024

As artists, there is often that one dream project—your creative magnum opus—that has remained elusive, trapped within the confines of the artistic career. The ODD ONE OUT Art Residency, scheduled for 2024, has been crafted to bring this long-awaited dream project to life. It is an invitation to break free from convention and embrace the unconventional, allowing your artistic vision to flourish and transcend previously uncharted territories. This is the opportunity where you don’t have to shape your practice based on the request of a gallery, funding, or theme. This is the moment to express your true artistic vision. Let the ODD ONE OUT!

Platform is an art organization based in Vasa, a relatively peripheral Finnish town. Platform runs an art space and a residency to offer live experiences of different perspectives in a location where this would otherwise be limited.

Platform usually works with an annual theme: for 2023 residencies asked the artist to reflect on the artist’s role, the practice of the artist and the relevance of art work/art works. For the upcoming 2024 residency, their intention is to delve deeper. Through the implementation of the Odd one Out residency, they want to provide artists with the opportunity to explore and discover the aspects that hold relevance to their individual artistry, thereby fostering a sense of relevance within the surrounding environment.

Platform offers accommodation, travel expenses (one return trip, cheapest possible) and a working grant (based on per diem, approx. 300 € per week). They also offer a small production budget of 1000 €, which the artist may reimburse by presenting original receipts of purchases, specifically connected to the project produced during the residency. The apartment is located near the city center in Vaasa. There is a bike, a set of tools and equipment available for the artist. There is wireless broadband access in the apartment. Platform does not at the moment house a studio, however a project space in the city center is available. The planned projects have to take this into account, space can be rented or borrowed if needed for the realization of the project and has to be negotiated in advance.

Platform asks the artist to realize a project, which can be presented either during the residency or at a later stage. The artist is expected to give a public talk, performance or workshop about his/her/their work or an introduction to themselves at the beginning of the residency. Platform expects the artist to be able to communicate in English, Swedish or Finnish, and requires the artist to spend at least 80% of the residency’s duration in Vaasa and the working grant is proportional to days spent in Vaasa. The artists are required to submit documentation of the produced project to Platform, as well as press release / information text / informal report or equivalent.

Further information: www.platform.fi