Open Calls

The Artist Residency program at Glasshouse was launched in 2009 and designed for professionals in the performance field to develop their practice while engaging with the various communities in/around Glasshouse. In 2024 we are offering an open call for a one week residency to provide space for the development of a new work in the field of visual performance art. The residency proposal should address the annual theme and include a public offering component of either a workshop, an open studio or other form of hosting, as well as a deep consideration of the community it aims to engage.

APPLY HERE BY FEBRUARY 15 2024

What we offer

• Access to Glasshouse Project’s studio and vacancy site  

• Accommodation for the artist on premises  (unfortunately we can’t accommodate pets)

• Engaging in deep dialogue around performance art and your practice 

• A modest $250 Artist honorarium to help cover material/transportation/food costs

• Studio visit with a professional in the field

What artist contributes

• Time and creativity developing your project in a site-specific setting

• Attending a residency related event / workshop

An open call for emerging artists/curators in the field of performance art, to conceptualize and organize a durational performance event on August 10, 2024, responding to the theme ‘An Emptying’ and the vacant site of Glasshouse’s 257 Springtown Rd location. This opportunity is designed for artists/curators to deeply experiment in realizing a layered site-specific performance event with 3 to 5 participating artists, which is open to the public. Glasshouse Project will be providing guidance in all production phases. Open to New York State artists, who are full-time residents of the State or Indian Nations therein and must be at least 21 years old. Students are not currently eligible to apply for this opportunity.

APPLY HERE BY MARCH 7, 2024

What we offer:

• Production, administrative & logistic assistance in organizing a group performance event

• Access to Glasshouse Project’s studio, archive and site for up to four weeks

• Online promotion of event

• A modest stipend of $1000 that includes an organizer honorarium ($250), up to $500 for participating artists honorariums ($100/artist), and up to $250 materials/transportation for NYS residents

• Documentation of event

What artist organizer contributes

• Time and creativity organizing a durational group performance event (up to 5 artists, 3h event) that responds to the theme ‘An Emptying’ and the site of 257 Springtown Rd

• Care for all aspects of the performance event production, with assistance of Glasshouse

The Artist Residency program at Glasshouse was launched in 2009 and designed for professionals in the performance field to develop their practice while engaging with the various communities in/around Glasshouse. In 2024 we are offering an open call for a one week residency to provide space for the development of new research/writing in the field of performance art. The project should relate to the theme ‘An Emptying’, as well as to the 2024 program at Glasshouse, and culminate with a short essay/conversation (approx. 1000 words). With this offering we are addressing the need for deep listening, witnessing and written research in the field of visual performance art. While the timeframe provided is limited, we envision it a tool to enhance discourse and research through conversations, embodied research and experimentation. Open to New York State artists, who are full-time residents of the State or Indian Nations therein and must be at least 21 years old. Students are not eligible to apply for this opportunity.

APPLY HERE BY FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we offer

• Access to Glasshouse Project’s studio, archive and site

• Logistic support for the research project

• Accommodation for the scholar on premises (unfortunately we can’t accommodate pets)

• Engaging in deep dialogue around performance art and your practice

• A modest $250 honorarium to help cover transportation/food costs

What scholar contributes

• Time and creativity developing a short essay that will be published on Glasshouse Project’s online blog platform MOP.

• Attending a residency related event (dinner/panel etc)

An Emptying

On gathering an aftermath as it unfolds

When the performance ends the room stands bare, emptied from meaningful actions, from spectacle, and audience, relieved from that tensed purposeful capturing of images. In that twilight zone of no longer presence and not yet past, when ephemera, odors and conversations are still scattered, is when the gathering of emptiness begins.

Glasshouse’s annual theme, An Emptying, zooms into that fleeting time of emptying in performance. We will be gathering in and around our new site, which was flooded in 2011 and vacant since, making felt our current crises within the aftermath of a flood.

Our theme, titled after a short story of Clarice Lispector which chronicles a lost friendship, might resonate as timely in more ways than one.

While languaging performance absence, we will be immersed in the lived trauma of our surroundings, looking at ways to embody our socio-ecological climate.

“We must look for histories that develop through contamination. Thus, how might a gathering become a happening?” Writes Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing in The Mushroom at the End of the World. This year we will let ourselves be contaminated with emptying, allowing that process be a host, a happening; observing what exists in the unfolding space of vacancy as it leads us into a future we can bare to share.

We seek project proposals from artists/organizers/scholars relating to the theme, to develop, present or research in the field of performance art. Proposals from visual and/or performance artists are welcome, as long as they consist of a visual art component.

This opportunity is intended for artists with a mature practice who are New York State residents. Students who are enrolled in a degree seeking program during 2024 are not eligible to apply

Glasshouse Project is located in New Paltz, a college town in New York’s Hudson Valley, vibrant with alternative cultural initiatives. We are located just outside the town, which is commutable by car/bike/long walks. When at Glasshouse you will be surrounded with scenic landscape. Your working spaces include the 2 acres outdoors, the studio shed and the site of 257 Springtown

Since the launch of our residency program in 2009, A.I.R guests are invited to stay at the private residence of Glasshouse’s founders, Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry, accompanied with an ever changing art installation and archive. This setup allows for an ongoing non-formal exchange during the project development, and often result in long-lasting relationships, which we cherish. Guest artists get a private floor, so you will be able to navigate your interactions as desired.

Keep in mind that at this point we are unable to provide space for spouses/family members or pets

The term ‘performance art’ has become a broad term to describe an ever-expanding form that originates in various performative disciplines such as dance, theater, music, sound, spoken word, etc. Glasshouse Project at its core is dedicated to performance in the visual art context. If you are not sure, we are always happy to answer questions. It is always helpful to look at works of past guests and recent events to get a better understanding of what it is we do.