tmt institute fellows
Target Margin invites applications for our next group of Institute Fellows
What Is the TMT Institute?
The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result.
Each Fellow’s journey is individual. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice. TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend.
The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process. In between intensive meetings, we meet monthly for breakfast and go on occasional excursions to keep our conversation growing.
After the second intensive, each Fellow is encouraged to define and commit to an exploration that they can pursue outside of group gatherings. Target Margin supports these experiments with resources: space, collaborators, materials, etc. Fellows share their progress and evolution through the duration of the Institute. At the end of the season, TMT hosts an “Open Studio” to invite our community of artists and neighbors to share in what we have been exploring. This is not a performance; it can be a conversation, notes, a demonstration, or simply the Fellow’s presence to discuss their work with anyone interested.
Calendar Requirements
Fellows must be available in person for the following dates in Brooklyn NY:
- Intensive Sessions at Target Margin Theater
- November 7, 8, 9, 10: all day with some evening hours
- February 7, 8, 9: all day with some evening hours
- April 25, 26, 27: all day with some evening hours
- On the first Monday of the month Fellows meet for breakfast at Junior’s in Brooklyn to share thoughts, questions, and experience. Our first breakfast will be Monday November 4th.
- From time to time, we organize excursions to performances, artistic, or other cultural events to feed our thinking.
As the year proceeds, Fellows schedule their own explorations or experiments which Target Margin will support.
The Institute is open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and is also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts. Fellows must have an established, existing practice in the arts which they are committed to changing.
TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend.
Brief (one paragraph) Responses to the following Questions:
- What has your artistic practice been up to this point?
- We seek Fellows who are at a moment in their trajectory that is unique and demands change. Why is this the right time for you to radically disrupt and change your practice? How are you at such a moment?
- The Institute is about new thinking. What are some questions about your creative process that you would bring in to ask on the first day of the Institute? What are new directions you could go in? These could be about your own work, about making work generally, about other’s work, or anything in the universe that might shape your work in new ways. Note: these are not ideas you have to commit to for the coming Fellowship year; we just want your thinking and possibilities at this moment.
- Tell us about an artistic experience that has been important to you that is completely unrelated to your own practice or creative products.
- Tell us a surprising thing you have noticed in the last week.
