project’s ability to relate to the surrounding landscape.
suitability of the idea considering the assignment.
The production will be assisted by organizers by providing production facilities, tools, local manufacturing partners, specialized know-how and a smoke sauna experience. Selected projects receive an artist fee of €2000 and a travel grant. We are open to all artists from around the world. In total we will select three to five projects for the 2022 residency period. This is the first of multiple open calls to find works for Wild Bits exhibitions during 2022 - 2025. The produced works will remain in Maajaam and will be displayed on satellite exhibitions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania until 2025. The residency will take place in the summer of 2022. It lies on the frontier of these overlapping normalities, extending an invitation to contemplate, question and explore the aspects of a technological society, its influence on our behaviour, perception and thinking as well as on our surrounding environments. Maajaam is situated in an old farmhouse, but is nonetheless operated as a media art experimentation residency. The artworks should withstand outdoor conditions. With this open call Maajaam is seeking proposals for installations, interventions or processes to be installed/performed in landscapes spread out around Maajaam that explore the human condition in a contemporary technological society. The technological art installations consisting of sounds, lights, texts, sculptures or their online counterparts are placed in natural spaces like forests, fields, swamps and lakes. The exhibition looks for points of contact between people, technology and nature. The project Wild Bits is an exhibition concept that proposes a temporary art park in the wilderness. Residency dates: 7th until the 28th of July 2022 Deadline for proposals: 26th of December 2021 (included)