Science Gallery Bengaluru, India, seeks interactive, participatory, and experimental works for CALORIE, an exhibition-season which explores humanity’s intimate yet fraught relationship with food.
For CALORIE, the organisers are looking to work with individuals or groups—from across career and disciplinary backgrounds—who are critically exploring food and nutrition, cooking and consumption in global food cultures and systems across history. They seek applications that are artistic and scientific inquiries, or both together. They are looking for both existing and new projects that match Science Gallery’s core aim: to Connect, Participate, and Surprise. Relevance to the core audience of 15–28-year-olds is important.
Science Gallery accepts projects from highly diverse disciplines that could include art-works, video, performance, poetry, craft, sound, web-based work, socially engaged work, live experimentation, design, sharing of data from social science, medical, or natural science research and more.
Science Gallery Bengaluru is also accepting proposals for public programmes in the lead up to and during the exhibition. This could include a film-festival, city walk, hands-on-workshop, talk series, theatre, dance, puppetry, stand-up/ open-mic/ improv, and a master class.
While the primary focus is on the exhibition space, they are keen on programming beyond the exhibition space and welcome proposals that could be hosted online, outdoors, or in other site-specific locations like lakes, laboratories, parks, or metro stations.
Projects supported via the Open Call for the exhibition can typically be funded by Science Gallery Bengaluru up to 3,00,000 INR, including all costs, artist fees, materials, equipment, shipping, travel and taxes. Public programme proposals can typically be funded up to 1,00,000 INR.
