We.Are Institute presents

Long and short term artistic collaborations and mentorship with JAŠA 

Applications are now open!

Or send an email to jasha.office@gmail.com

DEADLINE 11.11.2021

About the International Workshop - Mentorship

We are delighted to be announcing this opportunity to be working with and within JAŠA’s new long-term project, The Monuments, at Kühlhaus Berlin. This mentorship program is a unique opportunity for artists of any experience level to work alongside JAŠA and other collaborators. 

From November to June 2022, JAŠA will work with a group of artists from all fields of contemporary art practices, and with a range of experience. This opportunity is open to anyone interested in exploring and obtaining knowledge of and in performing, as individuals and within group actions. The applicant should ideally be based in Berlin. 

The Monuments is a new long-term project by JAŠA: an immersive work of art composed of a series of site-specific interventions and durational performance pieces. As a whole, it will function as a visual narrative developed in the spaces of Kühlhaus Berlin, divided into 17 individual chapters as events for the duration of a year and a half. 

“A live artwork can react directly to the socio-politics of the moment. The initial plan of the project serves as a foundation upon which individual chapters will be built. Each chapter will carry palpable tension, urgency and the constant uncertainty of immediate social-political re-action layered upon the initial plan. These two approaches provide the groundwork of the conceptual premise, the project’s main charge: the ephemeral and the constructed.”

The workshop will consist of developing individual and group performances, based on various scores, pre-established or developed during the sessions, where collaborating artists will be encouraged to contribute and develop their own ideas. Working with performance scores will give the artist the opportunity to experience the preparations, the process and the execution without the outside pressures of individual production. The engagement of the mentor is aimed to pose challenges and offer interrogations within a supportive structure.

“The process of diving into something I wanted for a long time, but did not know if I could pull it off felt like pushing myself over the cliff, but with a safety net around me. The experience of working with others under a mentorship gave me confidence in myself and in the ideas I could develop on my own. It was challenging to follow somebody else's ideas while confronting my own, but knowing that I am being mentored by somebody whose honesty I could trust has led to growth in my way of thinking and working."