AiR Drop - info
AiR Drop is remote residency programme.
In a normal artist residency, you might travel to a place with facilities to make your next piece of work, and stay there whilst you make it. With AiR Drop, those facilities come to you.
Initially designed to support under-represented voices during lockdown AiR Drop is open to moving image artists based in England who are unable to make work due to lack of access to facilities.
How does the residency work?
When you apply, you’ll tell us about the activity you’ll undertake during your residency. This could involve:
Making a new piece of work
Experimenting or doing screen tests for a future project
Continuing or finishing a long-running project you’ve developed elsewhere
Any other reasonable use of the facilities offered by the residency to develop your work or your practice
You’ll also tell us when you’d like your residency to take place. Every month, a new artist will be selected for an AiR Drop Residency. When you’re selected we’ll announce your residency, and then ship two large pelicases of high-end moving image equipment to you. A detailed breakdown of the facilities offered is listed below. You’ll have two weeks to undertake your residency activity. At the end, we’ll arrange for the residency equipment to be returned and readied for the next artist.
Who is it for?
AiR Drop Residencies are for:
Moving image artists
Aged over 18
Not in full time education
Based in England
Who are unable to make work because of lack of access to facilities
If you already have access to the equipment you need to make work, then we ask that you support our work by not applying, but telling people in your network who could benefit from it.
What will I get?
The standard residency kit comprises:
A BMPCC4k camera
Fully rigged with v-lok batteries, onboard monitor, high-end microphone, Leica lens
Tripod
Litepanels Brick One LED light
Chargers, cables, cards etc
A high-end desktop editing computer with:
All Adobe CC software inc Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator
Full licensed version of Resolve
Additional equipment can be supplied too depending on availability and your requirements
Does it cost anything?
AiR Drop Residencies are completely free. Shipping to and from your place of residence is covered by satellite too.
What am I required to do/deliver?
Residencies are a time to develop your practice, not a source of stress. We’ll expect you to undertake the project you described in your proposal, but if it doesn’t work out, that’s fine. If your work evolves creatively during the process, that’s fine too. You may plan to make a new work, to work on a pre-existing project, or to experiment for the benefit of future work.
There are some other things we’ll need from you which we’ll ask for if you’re shortlisted - proof of ID and address, for example. We don’t ask for these at application stage because we’d like to make it as easy as possible to apply.
When is the deadline? When will I hear if I’ve been selected?
There is no deadline. When you apply, you’ll tell us what month you’d like your residency to take place in. When we select the residency artist for that month, we’ll tell you if you’ve been successful or not. This will happen in good time before the residency, so you have time to plan.
If you’d be able to take up the residency at different times, you can select more than one month when you apply.
