PRIM-Dazibao production-dissemination residency

Deadline: October 15, 2024

Since 2005, Dazibao and PRIM, in a joint collaboration since 2005, are excited to offer a unique residency for an artist to produce and exhibit a project. The chosen proposal will take into consideration the mandates of both organizations. Accordingly, the artist will explore formal and conceptual questions pertaining to image-making practices while pushing the boundaries with regard to sound, video, and digital media.

Eligible candidates

To apply for the PRIM-Dazibao residency, you must:

• Be an artist or artists’ collective creating works independently;

• Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. In the case of a collective, at least one member must meet this requirement.

PRIM and Dazibao invite emerging, mid-career, and established artists to submit a project. In an effort to support diversity and inclusion, PRIM and Dazibao encourage proposals from artists who identify as members of a minority.

Assistance granted

By PRIM

• $12,000* worth of access to all video and sound equipment, and the video and audio post-production studios for one year

• $1,000* for audio and/or video training and support

• Project guidance and technical support

* Calculated at the non-member rate, non-transferable or redeemable for cash

By Dazibao

• Presentation of the work as part of our regular programming for the following year*

• Guidance throughout the project’s development, production of discussion material around the artist’s practice as well as logistical and promotional supervision

* The fees paid by Dazibao follow CARFAC recommendations.

Eligibility rules
General eligibility rules

An unlimited number of separate applications per application period and per artist are eligible.

There is no limit as to the number of times a project may be submitted in the event it is rejected for a previous application period.

Eligible projects

All proposals for producing independent media work in any artistic practice using sound or moving images are eligible.

Note: Projects that are part of a school curriculum are not eligible.

Eligible costs

PRIM’s support under this program takes the form of free access* to equipment for the following services:

• Sound and video capture

• Sound recording

• Sound editing and exploration

• Image editing and finishing

• Colorization

• Sound mixing (cinema and music)

• Digitization, transfer, and DCP creation

• Virtual reality

* Maximum value of $12,000 calculated at the non-member rate

Non-eligible costs

The following expenses are not eligible:

• Technicians’ fees

• Distribution media and supplies

• Travel and accommodation costs, if applicable

Registration terms and conditions
How to apply

To apply, you must complete the online registration form and provide the following documents:

• CV of the artist or the members of the artists’ collective applying

• List of technical needs (Excel document to download) to complete and attach to the application)

• Audio/video supporting documentation (15 min max in total) in the form of links to Vimeo or other

• Any other documentation that the artist feels is pertinent (photos, illustrations, script...)

Deadlines

October 15, 2024

Evaluating applications
Evaluation process

Applications are first evaluated by the person in charge of the program at Dazibao based on the program’s eligibility conditions.

Eligible applications are then evaluated by a committee made up of representatives from both organizations, who come to a final decision together.

Decisions are final and without appeal.

Evaluation criteria

The projects are evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Project’s innovative nature

• Subject’ relevance in the context of current image-based practices

• Harmony between the content developed and the technologies used

Ethics

Jury members must follow PRIM’s Jury Member Professional Ethics Code and the Conflict of Interest rules as well as Dazibao’s codes and policies

Response time

Dazibao will notify the selected candidate of the jury’s decision no later than four months after the program’s deadline.

Due to the high number of proposals we receive, only artists whose projects have been accepted will be contacted. We are aware that preparing a proposal requires considerable work, and we are grateful to all the artists who share their research with us.

Other informations
Artists’ obligations

To benefit from the PRIM | Dazibao Residency, recipients must become PRIM members, realize their project within one year of signing the agreement, and meet all terms and conditions.

Past recipients:

Kim Kölle Valentine (2022-2023) / Abbas Akhavan (2021-2022) / Zinnia Naqvi (2020-2021)
Anne-Renée Hotte (2018-2019) / Omar Elhamy and Casper Wolski (2017-2018) / Maryse Goudreau (2016-2017) / Roberto Santaguida (2015-2016) / Léna Mill-Reuillard (2014-2015) / Scott Massey (2013-2014) / Lorna Bauer et Jon Knowles (2012-2013) / Steve Bates (2011-2012) / Frédéric Lavoie (2010-2011) / Michel Campeau (2010-2011) / Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (2009-2010) / Sophie Bélair Clément (2008-2009) / Charles Stankievech (2007-2008) / Romeo Gongora (2006-2007) / Chih-Chien Wang (2005-2006)

An advisory programming committee contributes to the development of Dazibao’s programming.