kleine stadt farm interdisciplinary residency
In recent years the community farm project of the Kleine Stadt Farm in Vienna’s Donaustadt has been activated and presented to a wider public as a new social centre in the 22nd district. Today, it is an association of about 20 ecological and social organisations and cultural workers, in which about 500 people participate. The community farm is jointly managed, played on and cultivated – with great commitment on a voluntary basis.
The Salettl at the community farm project was originally designed and built as an educational venue for organic farming. Today it is to become a cultural, educational and event centre for sustainable development. With the help of artistic and cultural activities and offers, the intention is to create a place of exchange that takes up the great potential of the initiatives, activities and networks of the Kleine Stadt Farm for socially and ecologically sustainable development – to expand it and carry it beyond the community farm into the neighbourhood, the district and the city.
The Salettl Residency Programme will take place for the second time in 2023 and aims to offer artists the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the community of the Kleine Stadt Farm and the surrounding nature in order to develop a project on site. Both during and towards the end of the residency, there is the opportunity to present the artistic process and results and to engage in exchange with the local people.
The programme is aimed at professional artists whose work demonstrates an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach and addresses issues of social and environmental sustainability. The thematic focus of the residency is to tie in with ‘Utopia’ - the annual theme of cultural activities in the district of Vienna-Donaustadt. Artists are invited to work on this main topic from different perspectives and to realise it artistically.
The Salettl Residency includes:
- Residency from 28 May – 25 June 2023, with final presentation on 24 June.
- Living and working space in the Salettl.
- Stipend of 1700€.
The application is open to all interested artists regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation or religious affiliation. Families are explicitly invited to apply. Children are welcome at the Kleine Stadt Farm.