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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum: Digital Fellowship for Artists from the Global South (Online)

A blue coiling running shape, like a rivulet of water.

Leaky Archive is the new digital project at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM) in Cologne, Germany. The ambition of the project is to work collaboratively on the collection in digital and analogue spaces in order to make both content and structure more democratic, open and polyphonic.

How can the RJM’s collection database, with around 165,000 entries, most of which contain minimal information, be more transparent and accessible? Leaky Archive explores and develops new models for knowledge sharing and knowledge generation in collaboration with local and international institutions, peers, and publics to build an intersectional community. Digital fellowships, Online Access Tours through the digital collection, transdisciplinary work sessions and edit-a-thons, and a Camp on programming, theatre, design and gaming at the museum for youth are meant to transform the colonial archives and collections of the RJM into a multiperspectival-multivocal platform.

The present open call is directed to artists, activists, makers, experts, and collectives from the Global South, who are invited to apply with a project idea they want to pursue. It can include methodological and/or thematic approaches to collections, archives, databases, or individual subjects in the RJM collections.

Over three months (April–June 2023), the four fellows will be able to dedicate themselves individually to their projects, engage in exchange, and share their research. The participants will work in a process and exemplary way, without necessarily having to bring forward finished results. They will not be physically together but will use various online tools to stay in touch and document the process. The organisers see digital fellowships as a contemporary format of support and networking in a globalised scene shaped by digitalisation.

What is offered:

  • A grant of 2500€ for three months of part-time research (April–June 2023 / 160 hours in total).
  • Project funding for up to 500€.
  • Full access to the database of the museum.
  • Long-term participation in the international networks of the RJM and the KHM.
  • Participation in a model project to democratize the RJM collections.
  • Organisation of online public events during the fellowship period.
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