{"id":1194,"date":"2025-03-08T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offbiennale.hu\/2025\/uncategorized\/osztondij\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:43:24","slug":"scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offbiennale.hu\/en\/hirek\/scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"(UN)LEARN, CREATE & PRESENT AT OFF-BIENN\u00c1LE BUDAPEST 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cA safe space is not a sticker. You can\u2019t just call a space \u201csafe\u201d and expect it to be so. A label, a declaration, even the best intentions\u2014none of these guarantee actual safety. And what feels safe to you might not feel safe to me. Safety is not a fixed state; it\u2019s a continuous, negotiated process. During this masterclass, we will critically engage with urgent and complex topics such as safe spaces, trigger warning, hierarchy, authority, separation, distinction, responsibility, and the overuse of buzzwords like “radical empathy” or “politics of care”. We will reintroduce the notion of frame\u2014not as a limitation, but as a structure that protects rather than restricts. A frame sets conditions, creates clarity, and offers a foundation from which risk, experimentation, and transformation can emerge. We will challenge the mainstream discourse of horizontality, questioning how its rhetoric, while often well-intentioned, can paradoxically become an obstacle to the emergence of contemporary leaders. Leadership does not have to mean domination or oppression. We will reimagine it beyond capitalist individualism, seeking new iconographies of leadership and management that are true to our ethics\u2014rooted in sincerity, generosity, and integrity.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Anna \u00c1d\u00e1m<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>OFF Biennale Budapest, Company Gray Box, and School of Disobedience<\/b> are offering two fully funded scholarships for an intensive \u201cThe Art of Holding Space<\/span>\u201d Masterclass<\/b> (2025 May 5-30), designed for artists, makers, creatives, and cultural practitioners seeking to expand their practice into socially engaged art, community facilitation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Participants will receive comprehensive training, mentorship, and the opportunity to present their collaborative practice or community art work at OFF Bienn\u00e1l\u00e9 2025, Hungary\u2019s largest independent contemporary art event. This program is intended for professionals who wish to move beyond individual creation and develop projects that foster collective experiences, participatory methods, and meaningful social impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE<\/span><\/h4>\n

“The Art of Holding Space” Masterclass is designed to equip artists, makers, creatives, and cultural practitioners with the skills, confidence, and strategies necessary to design, implement, and lead participatory projects, transformative experiences, design and hold creative spaces, build communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The program focuses on:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n