The Long March residency program is run on a non-profit basis in conjunction between the Long March Foundation 501 (c)3 New York, and the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center Beijing. The program looks to support and enhance the creativity of "cultural workers" by providing curators, critics, scholars, artists, and individuals interested in a multidisciplinary investigation of visual culture in a "contemporary" Chinese social context with a platform, space, and support to initiate, develop, and mature their ideas and practices for a period of up to six months. The Long March believes that in an increasingly visual nature of social interaction that accompanies the globalization process, individuals working in the field of visual culture play a dynamic and important role in mediating, structuring and altering the debates on how these social relationships are shaped and how we understand our positions within the contemporary. The Long March residency program is committed to providing a space and opportunity for creative individual to think about the historical consciousness and social nature of artistic creation and display, exploring how art connects with the broader masses, and how visual displays reveal their underlying political, social, economic, historical, geographical, and humanistic backgrounds.

The various Long March Spaces in Beijing and throughout China promote cultural exchange between participants and their local counterparts, as well as with local organizations, politicians, and citizens. Exhibitions of contemporary art, symposiums, lectures, debates, and art workshops for the community are a major part of our non profit activities. Aside from providing a platform for international participants to come to China, the Long March residency also facilitates residency exchanges with Chinese artists, curators, and critics, connecting them with the international.

Applicants are expected to seek funding from relevant sources, and the Long March will provide letters of support to this end.

Long March History
The Long March: is a metaphor. It is an international cooperation, a campaign, a complex art project entitled "a walking visual display," and a journey. Its participants include curators, artists, theorists, and art activists from China and abroad. It uses the historical Long March (the Red Army's epic trek from 1934-1936) as a geographic and discursive framework, and the curatorial plan parallels the grand narrative of the historical Long March with its romantic ideals of turning failure into success, of taking to the road in search of Utopia, of founding an alternative democratic society through engagement with the masses, leaders, and soldiers, of representing the intellectuals and the people, of holding imported theories and tactics up to the lens of reality in the local context, of generating the new and powerful praxis that ultimately led to the founding of the current Chinese state. Our new Long March looks for a new approach to contemporary art that uses China as a platform.

25000 Cultural Transmission Center: Site number thirteen and co-organizer of the large scale art project The Long March - A Walking Visual Display, the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center is located in the burgeoning Factory 798 Dashanzi Art District in Beijing. With two independent spaces comprising 750 square meters (250 square meters and 500 square meters), the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center is a multi-purpose space that facilitates exhibitions, symposiums, lectures, curating, consulting, collections, residencies, and publishing both within China and internationally. Its project's are dedicated to the fundamental questions of the relationship between curating, display and artistic creation, between practice and discourse, between objects and text, and between audience and artists.

About the Space
The Long March Residency program offers Long March in residence participants a space in which national and international curators, critics, scholars, artists, and researchers can live, work, and participate in collaborative projects with the local community for a period of up to six months. At present, the program has one combined residential/studio space available in Beijing's Dashanzi 798 Art District and Central Art Academy, approximately 5km from the city's cultural center. The residency space is 40 square meters of residential/studio space available for resident use at part of the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center. The space is just minutes from the Central Fine Arts Academy, and surrounded by numerous artist studios, art galleries, design studios, and art organizations. The center is the leading art space in Beijing facilitating dialogue and exchange, organizing exhibitions, symposiums and lectures, as well as the experimenting with new exhibition practices. The studio's location in the center of the contemporary Chinese art scene, and is only minutes from the city center by public transportation.

The Long March also encourages the display of works outside the conventional frameworks of exhibition spaces, expanding the notions of display in public venues or on the road. For example the Long March Residency Program has at its disposal a space deep within the community to the northeast of the city of Yan'an, and a vast network of contacts that can arrange "on the road" residencies for participants interested in conducting projects throughout China.

Program Fees
This program is managed on a not-for-profit basis by the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center. The Long March residency program will provide residents access to the vast Long March network that includes individuals spanning different disciplines, professions, and regions. From the international museum space, to the village meeting hall, the Long March can help provide residents with all the necessary support and connections to help participants achieve their proposal and research goals. A related community based network can provide professional and personal support to the artists. Residents are expected to cover basic program costs including use of the studio, accommodations, utilities, production, and travel costs involved with the realization of projects both inside and outside of the resident spaces outlined above, as such The Long March residency program will favor individuals who are sponsored by an authorized organization or program, and letters of support will be provided to this end.

Application and Selection Procedure for the Long March Residency Program
While the residency program is primarily directed at curators, critics, scholars, researchers, from all disciplines, the Long March also accepts proposals from all individuals interested in the field of visual culture. To apply, please send us your proposal, requirements, your resume, and images of your work (if necessary). We will consider the requests at anytime. Our selection committee will respond with a decision depending on availability and timeframe.

We strongly encourage that participants also take part in activities in the area. For example, holding an exhibition in our gallery, create an installation in the local public area, or take part in a workshop. Community involvement, participation, and impact are strong factors in the evaluation of proposals. Opportunities for participation in activities vary according to the gallery schedule and other conditions.

Contact
For further information, please contact us at:
Long March Foundation
Address: 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Mailbox #8503, Beijing, P.R.China 100015
Phone: +86 10 64387107
Email: lm@longmarchspace.com
URL: www.longmarchspace.com