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Artist In Residence South Africa

Artist in Residence South Africa, AIRSA, is a registered South African NPO 243-824, offering funded artist residencies for emerging, mid-career and established artists, from anywhere.
Artist residency programs give artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, providing them with time to reflect, research, and produce work based on the experiences in the given environment. Artists' residencies have become intrinsic to many artistic careers.
Residencies enable artists to do fieldwork and to work on-site, in order to map out, collect, research and generate new perspectives. This kind of 'embedded research' contributes to public and professional awareness. It reinforces the concept of artists' residencies as cells of knowledge and alternative academies.

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