PLAND AIR, US | DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2012

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PLAND ushers in a third year of programming and announces an open call for residency applications for the summer of 2012. As winter winds blow through the partially finished Main House and snow drifts against walls made of bottles and adobe, we anticipate summer. 2012 will be another year of hard work, tenacious solutions, and exciting new collaborations. If you are a worker, maker, thinker, or doer who brings self-awareness, experimental processes, and creativity to what you do – and PLAND sparks some ideas for you – then we encourage you to apply to our Residency Program.

PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is a multi-disciplinary organization that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects through a variety of on and off-site programs. Headquartered off-the-grid near Tres Piedras, New Mexico, PLAND is a hands-on, exploratory approach to Do-It-Yourself, alternative living.

Residency is the heart and soul of PLAND. Not only does the Residency Program offer time and space to participants, but moreover, it offers the opportunity to deeply consider daily life. What does it mean to reside in a place? What supports or limits a life off-the-grid? What happens when your cell phone loses its charge and the sun goes down and the water supply runs low? Each summer, PLAND offers a number of residency awards to individuals and collaborative groups who apply through an open call process. Residencies span two to four weeks between June and September. Former PLAND residents have proposed specific projects while others have been more process oriented. The most successful residents have a curiosity about land use, alternative living, enjoy building and the outdoors, and are willing to have their experience shaped by wind, weather, and all manner of the unexpected.

Be aware that this is not the residency during which you will make paintings or write novels. For PLAND, residency is about living – living differently and intentionally. It’s about residing in a place. We like to think of residency in the broadest of terms. We do not have studio spaces nor is this residency about working in isolation. Although humble, rugged, and not without its plentiful share of hardship, we offer you the opportunity to get in touch with the basics. Water, shelter, fire, weather, dinner, people, time, and space – all of these elements become the daily luxuries in which you’re invited to indulge.

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Eva Mendoza is an independent curator, cultural manager and artist who lives and works in NYC. She studied a Master in Arts Administration at Columbia University with a Fulbright Fellowship. Her thesis discusses the situation of Spanish artists working in New York and their professional relation with cultural institutions in New York. She has previously received a Master’s degree in Arts Administration from the Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Spain, and a Master’s degree in Art and New Technologies at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. She holds degrees in Journalism and in Humanities, and has been specializing in contemporary art. She took PhD courses in Fine Arts and Modern Categories at the Complutense University, Spain. She curated and organized Region 0. The Latino Video Art Festival of New York at the King Juan Carlos I Center, New York University. She is currently the director of the project Round Trip NY.

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