The artist residency SPOT 13 offers the opportunity to artists from all the world to access the artistic and cultural scene in Cartagena, known by its human heritage (UNESCO) and main cultural and touristic district of Colombia. Cartagena has been the center of Colombian tourism and represents one of the main Colombian cultural heritage from colonial Spanish times.
SPOT 13 has been developed allowing guest artists to immerse in local cultural scene, to have access to local artist practices as well as get to know daily life in Cartagena. Within the frame of the residency programme, artists can develop new work or finalize ongoing work, the only requirement to apply is that the work is created within the following subjects: human rights, slavery, history of Cartagena and Gender subjects. Artists will have access to talks, archive and research material related to the subjects proposed for the residence.
The residency expects to create a conversation between guests artists and allows the creation of a space for dialogue where vision and conception of the proposed themes will have a zone of expression, which will enrich the practice of the artists and will also give them a look onto local artistic practices as well as allow access to the public to different interpretations of Colombian social context.
