Call for applications: "Residence of territory - Cinema" in the framework of the Territorial Contract of arts and cultural education of the community of communes of Mirecourt Dompaire (2023-2024)

Putting people back at the centre of the project

It is here to let it express itself, to observe and to collect emotions, humanity, and to highlight them by giving a preponderant place to these suspended moments, magical, both fragile and powerful.  This requires creativity and transmission, and can take its source in the territory’s intangible heritage.

Humanity, cultural diversity, creativity and transmission: building on the notion of intangible heritage

For the years 2022-2024, the actors of the cultural project of territory propose to deepen the notion of intangible heritage that concerns many cultural and artistic fields. The intangible and human dimension would thus take precedence over the tangible.

What is intangible cultural heritage?

Cultural heritage does not stop at physical objects such as monuments and collections of objects. It also includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and transmitted to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices about nature and the universe or the knowledge and knowledge necessary for traditional crafts.”

The “intangible cultural heritage” includes the following areas:

• oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vector of intangible cultural heritage;
• the performing arts;
• social practices, rituals and festive events;
• knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
• know-how related to traditional crafts.

The proposed theme, «Traces et rencontres: Au cœur de la pratique artistique, regards croisés et histoires partagés», allows us to embrace EAC’s actions in all artistic fields. By proposing to place the human at the heart of projects, it promotes and values meetings, exchanges, the transmission of knowledge and know-how, expression and creativity.

This theme has both a concrete dimension (the creative process, the gesture, the transmission, etc.) and a poetic dimension (the ephemeral, the fragility, the emotion, etc.) that seem to us to be able to cover all the EAC times and all the artistic fields.  This theme is demanding, but leaves enough creative freedom to all actors.

Residence of ter2023-2024: axis of artistic work

The theme aims to highlight the richness and beauty of the human exchanges taking place in the territory. In this residency, we propose to one or more artists of the Cinema professions, to create or seize, moments of exchange, to capture them, to arouse them, or to use them, as a sensitive and living matter, in connection with their creation of one or more works.

This theme opens the field of possibilities. It allows a great diversity of artistic approaches, of putting in relationship with the actors of the structures of the territory. Each of these structures wishes to participate in the residency of territory, meet the artist(s), discover his works, and develop an arts and cultural education project that is related.

This is a rural area, where groups and structures remain on a human scale, and where the involvement in the project may vary according to the possibilities of each. With regard to the public concerned, from early childhood to the elderly, this residence has an intergenerational tone, which can build on habits already existing links between them, and the possibilities of crossing these audiences in common moments.

The artistic field of cinema arouses a great deal of curiosity among the participants, particularly in the field of the discovery of the “reverse of the set”: writing, acting, directing, lighting, music, framing, editing, rigging, etc. everything that makes an image a creation that differs from the real. The artistic project could be accompanied by mediations that are akin to technical discovery, education in the image. This part of the project can be proposed by the artists and/or by associating with mediators, as well as with the support and pedagogical and technical resources of the partners.

Terms of mise in action

The territorial residence must be based on the theme proposed by the community of communes. It will consist of three phases: immersion, artistic action and finalization. Theimmersion, a meeting phase that is an integral part of the artistic project, it is a time of consultation with the actors of the territory of the residence during which will be specified my nature and the modalities of future actions. Theartistic action, phase including the time of creation of the artists, the visit of the partner structures, and the time of encounter and artistic practice with the inhabitants. The finalization : at the end of the residency, the artist is at the initiative of an «event», in order to gather around the shared experience, the possible «object» created, and to leave a trace. It can be developed around any desired artistic form: meeting, dissemination, publication, exhibition, live performance, etc.

The residency highlights the experimental dimension of the work, which can evolve, and whose final rendering is not necessarily known from the outset. It should allow participants to take ownership of the project and thus understand the drivers of creation, in the artistic, cultural or media field. It is part of the different times of the public: school and outside school time, promoting a pedagogy of project, at the meeting of disciplines. The purpose of the residence is to radiate, more broadly, across the entire territory through meetings, mediation and/or restitution.

The call for projects is open to professionals whose significant career path is recognized by the Drac. An application may result from a disciplinary crossing (collective or association of two or more candidates) within the budget envelope.

Expected Elements:

• artistic and cultural project
• proposed time of encounter and practice with the inhabitants
• cooperation with cultural actors and other institutions in the territory
• practice as a whole group(s) and possibly as a group of voluntary audiences
• mediation for all audiences and staff
• collective and participatory restitution/final event, radiating on the various participating structures, and more broadly on the territory

The project runs from January to April 2024, with a minimum of 6 weeks of residency for the artist(s).

To start again over the period, excluding time for consultation with the teaching team.

• File filed before May 26, 2023
• Selection by partners in June 2023
• Hearing at the Vosges Departmental Council, Epinal, 29 June 2023, morning.
• Residency Preparation Meetings September/December 2023
• January 2024- March 2024: Six-week residence time
• At the end of the residency: dissemination of a form of collaborative and public restitution during Renc'Art 2024 (17-22 June 2024)

A provisional budget must be presented, including the total cost of the project.

This will take into account the interventions, the preparation, the meetings, the time of consultation, the stage of performance, etc. The various costs related to the salaries of artists, technicians, accommodation, travel expenses, The European Union has a very important role to play.

Technically, for artists, depending on the case, agreements will be established between the artists and/or their company/cultural structure, the community of communes of Mirecourt Dompaire, and the structures that will host the project.

For potential mediators, technicians, this can be done in the form of a quote, presented, validated by the structure that finance them.

For all stakeholders, the various costs of travel, accommodation, food and equipment will have to be anticipated and budgeted, to be taken into account. This can be done either directly or in the form of a refund (defined in the agreements or specified in the estimates).

The practice workshops will take place in groups, in the presence of teachers or professional accompanists who know the participants. The idea is to involve the support workers, professionals of the structures, who will be able to help in the transmission of cultural practices, the organization and functioning of the workshops.

Various venues will also be able to host activities according to the needs and collaborations that can be set up: communal or intercommunal rooms, cultural structures, in particular the cultural pole of Dompaire, the approved hall of Harol, and the RIO Cinema.

The various CCMD services, as well as their dedicated staff, will support and assist in the implementation of the territorial residence. Also, the artists and technicians of the residence of territory will work in collaboration with the different referents of the project: cultural referents of institutions, staff of structures, coordinator of the CTEAC.

The artist or collective of artists selected will benefit from a Residence grant of €10,000 including tax, which will include the remuneration of the artist or artists, any related interventions and small equipment. Accommodation and travel, technicians and mediators, during residency will be supported by the CCMD up to €8,000 including tax, the partners committing themselves to help in the reduction of costs by the provision of a certain number of means (provision of rooms, technical and material means, collaboration of services).

The application package includes:

• An artistic and/or cultural project of residence that proposes actions in response to the objectives of this call for projects
• An artistic and/or professional file including contact details, Siret, texts, visuals, press, etc...
• Show Contractor License if applicable 
• An up-to-date curriculum vitae outlining the artistic and/or professional background 
• An indicative schedule of attendance and intervention (the final project will be built and refined with the host structures) 
• A residence budget including, where appropriate, co-financing. 
• A review of the EAC project

The file is to be sent by email (using the services of sending large files)

By May 26, 2023

to: Anne Floris, Coordinator of the CTEAC of the Community of Communes of Mirecourt Dompaire, afloris@ccmirecourtdompaire.fr