Current challenges presented by the global pandemic The present circumstances of the COVID-19 crisis, the duration and impact of which are still uncertain, have a significant impact on the models of artistic residencies worldwide. These circumstances might prompt us to adopt a residency model that, while maintaining the principle of being based on interactions between artists and scientists, will combine an on-site residency with online exchanges. In such cases, the artist and the scientific partners, as well as the curators of Arts at CERN and --defunct context will be in remote contact over a period of up to six months or until the project is completed. Key Dates Deadline for the application: May 26th, 2021 (at midnight CEST, UTC+2) Announcement of the jury’s decision: By the end of July 2021 The timing of the residency will be discussed with the teams of Arts at CERN and the South African partners, with the intention to complete the residency by March 2022, bar exceptional circumstances. Contact and Information For information about the programme at CERN and for Swiss artists interested in applying, please contact: 26:T64e, will grant a funded residency to one artist from Switzerland and one artist from Southern, East or West Africa . Connect invites submissions from artists with a distinct interest in an interdisciplinary approach, and a keen engagement with scientific thinking and fundamental science. The two selected artists will participate in a dual residency split between CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, home of the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC); and in the array of optical and radio astronomy observatories across rural and urban South Africa, concentrated particularly in the vast semi desert expanses of the Northern Cape. These include SARAO’s MeerKAT radio telescope near the town of Carnarvon, as the precursor to the South African component of the Square Ki

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