DOGMA: Call for Research Proposal
Deadline for application: 01 Nov 2024
From the organizer:
Dogma Collection invites applications for a research fellowship focused on the themes of stamps, postal systems, and communication networks in independence and liberation movements. The selected applicant will receive $1000 USD to develop a piece of original writing that will be published on Dogma’s website.
Developed as part of Crafting a Message: A Permanent Collection Exhibition (Sept 15, 2024 – Jan 10, 2025), the research fellowship is occasioned by Dogma’s comprehensive collection of stamps produced between 1945 – 1980. The research fellow will have access to the collection, as well as receive editorial support from the Dogma team. The fellow may choose to allocate some of the fee to production costs (such as domestic travel to other archives or to conduct interviews), though it is not required.
We welcome all ideas that may arise from the themes. Some directions may include but are not limited to:
– The postal system’s role in building socialist, anti-colonial, and/or Third World communication infrastructure
– An art historical analysis of stamp production during the independence movement, and the artists who designed them
– The letter as a form of cultural and political exchange
– Stamps as a medium through which we may understand, or reconceive our understanding of, propaganda
– Present-day activities and archival practices around philately (the study of stamps)
To apply, please send the following materials as one PDF to [email protected] by 1 November 2024 :
– An abstract (600 words max) of your proposed text
Please include in the abstract the budget breakdown for travel or any other research costs, if relevant.
– A resume/CV
The final text will be published in English and translated to Vietnamese.
About Dogma
Dogma is a private collection and exhibition space dedicated to socialist realist, wartime, and contemporary art, based in and around Vietnam. The space is located at 27A Nguyễn Cừ, Thảo Điền, Quận 2, Hồ Chí Minh. Dogma comprises three separate but connected programs: Collection, Research, and Prize.
At the heart of Dogma is its large collection of materials drawn between 1945 to 1985. The collection contains over one thousand examples of propaganda art, consisting of paintings composed and drawn as part of the Independence and Reunification movements; an extensive body of philately, two thousand sheets, ranging from original ‘essays’ through printers’ proofs, to mint, franked and misprinted stamps; hundreds of pieces of combat art from more than thirty artists; and more than four hundred artist’s proof vintage photographs. Dogma is also growing its collection of contemporary art.