FLACC | OPEN CALL

FLACC, an organization and workplace for artists located in Genk, Belgium, promotes an open call for visual artists for the realization of unique artistic projects. The call selects a maximum of 10-12 artists – from Belgium and abroad, young and experienced – to set up a new project during a period of three-month full time or around 90 days, divided in several smaller work periods between February 2020 and December 2020.

The call is open for all visual artists, for projects in various media and disciplines. Projects with interest in artistic labour, challenging the notion of a ‘workplace’ or with a focus on experiment are preferable. Crucial elements in the FLACC workplace projects are: theoretical research, input from experts, practical feasibility, and an output in relation with the studio labour, for example by contributing to the art discourse with a publication or a presentation.

The selected artists can make unlimited use of FLACC extensive facilities (kiln, carpentry and metal workshops and digital studio) and receive full organizational and artistic support during the preparation and realization of that project. FLACC makes an appropriate budget available for each of these projects and offers accommodation, covers travel expenses and a small production budget. FLACC providing practical, material and financial assistance through extended collaborations with artists, allows the selected artists to count on an extensive level of long term support. They can fully concentrate on their projects, whose process-driven realisation, worked out in collaboration with FLACC, is often just as important as the physical result itself. FLACC suggests that this realization is sometimes even secondary to the deployment of activities which can aid the artistic development of the artist, such as theoretical deepening, experimentation and networking. Projects that strengthen the development of the artist, engage in reflection, or manifest an experimental character are preferred over projects in which the realization of one or more works are central.

For more info application@flacc.info or flacc.info
Application deadline: 1 July 2019

Image: © William Ludwig Lutgens