Field Trip
A transdisciplinary residency program between Akademie Schloss Solitude and Max Planck Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies
Akademie Schloss Solitude together with the Max Planck Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies (EAS) have established a residency program to foster interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and perspectives between the arts and sciences. Since 2022, “Field trip” offers an adventure of going to a new place, an experience of being in a different environment and an opportunity to experiment with ideas. The philosophy of this exchange is to motivate practices of mutual knowledge creation and dissemination through the lens of multiple epistemologies and different perspectives.
Idea of the bilateral residency program
The unique program offers artists the opportunity to engage with the researchers at MPI-AB and participate in everyday routines of scientific research. Selected fellows are invited to join scientists from the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies on a six-week “Field Trip” to Konstanz. For the duration of the residency, the fellow has the status of a guest researcher and the chance to interact with scientists, attend local field work and to be part of group discussions. In return, a scientist from the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies spends six weeks as a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude. The third iteration of this exchange, which took place in 2024, marked a new chapter in the collaboration. Selected fellows joined the team of project MELA on a field trip outside of Germany, to a population of Blackbuck antelopes living in Tal Chhapar Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India.
Since its inception, the “Field trip” collaboration has manifested through a diverse range of transdisciplinary projects, exchange formats, and events at Akademie Schloss Solitude and at MPI-AB.
2024
Fellows of 2024
Simar Preet Kaur, writer and journalist based in the Indian Himalayas
Events of 2024
2023
Fellows of 2023
Vivek Hari Sridhar, postdoc at MPI-AB based in Konstanz, Germany
Yashas Shetty, sound artist and composer based in Bangalore, India
Events of 2023
2022
Fellows of 2022
Hemal Naik, postdoc at MPI-AB based in Konstanz, Germany
Helene Sommer, filmmaker based in Oslo, Norway
Application
The next open call for the »Field Trip« residency, including further information on the requirements and benefits, can be found here. For any questions regarding the residency program, please contact Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff, s.thieroff@akademie-solitude.de
About the Akademie Schloss Solitude
Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international Artist-in-Residence Program and has supported approximately 1,700 young artists from more than 120 countries since opening its doors in 1990. Residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude enable fellows to devote themselves to their research projects free of daily pressures and presentation deadlines.