Are you a Dutch or international artist, designer or media maker with a fascination for creative technology and social change? Does your work stimulate imagination and contribute to new scenarios for the future? Join the call to ACT, and read all about how to apply.
STRP’s ACT Award aims to stimulate the production of new artworks, whilst also providing the opportunity to present works that resonate with our festival theme. For the 2021 edition of the ACT Award, there will be two prizes, with the prize-winners receiving a budget of €25.000 each. Alongside this budget, STRP offers productional guidance for the development and production of new work during STRP Festival, which takes place from April 8 to 11 2021 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Important dates:
Deadline for applications in English: September 30 2020, 23.59 CEST
Announcement of winners: October 15 2020
STRP Festival: April 8-11 2021
Important dates:
Deadline for applications in English: September 30 2020, 23.59 CEST
Announcement of winners: October 15 2020
STRP Festival: April 8-11 2021
STRP 2021: We All Are Asteroids
The development of ‘Scenarios for the Post-Anthropocene’ through art, conversations and education was the theme of STRP Festival 2020. Our 2021 festival edition, with the working title ‘We All Are Asteroids’, will be shaped by the post-anthropocentric thinking explored at STRP 2020. We are all asteroids- humans and non-humans are connected, we are individuals who are all part of one big collective.
In the past 10 years, the so-called ‘Me Age’ has come to a grinding end. The flip side of this dominant individuality has become visible: a loss of connection and security, of the feeling of belonging and being part of something bigger. Loneliness is one of the major social problems of our time. While digital technologies and the Internet are connecting us worldwide, the technological revolution has also contributed to the sense that personal connection is crumbling. People of all ages indicate that they miss ‘real contact’, because an increasing part of our lives unfolds in the digital world. We are all looking for a new collective, while at the same time we want to monitor what our individual needs, limits and conditions are.
STRP invites all artists to come up with scenarios for the Post Anthropocene that trigger our imagination.
In the past 10 years, the so-called ‘Me Age’ has come to a grinding end. The flip side of this dominant individuality has become visible: a loss of connection and security, of the feeling of belonging and being part of something bigger. Loneliness is one of the major social problems of our time. While digital technologies and the Internet are connecting us worldwide, the technological revolution has also contributed to the sense that personal connection is crumbling. People of all ages indicate that they miss ‘real contact’, because an increasing part of our lives unfolds in the digital world. We are all looking for a new collective, while at the same time we want to monitor what our individual needs, limits and conditions are.
STRP invites all artists to come up with scenarios for the Post Anthropocene that trigger our imagination.
The jury
Juliette Bibasse, Independent Curator, Bruxelles, Belgium
Ali Eslami, (VR) Artist, Iran (Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Antonia Folguera, Curator Sonar+D, Barcelona, Spain
Sarah Bilson, Junior Curator, Montreal, Canada
Anca Verona Mihulet, Curator, Romania (Based in Seoul, South Korea)
Ali Eslami, (VR) Artist, Iran (Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Antonia Folguera, Curator Sonar+D, Barcelona, Spain
Sarah Bilson, Junior Curator, Montreal, Canada
Anca Verona Mihulet, Curator, Romania (Based in Seoul, South Korea)
