Dear resident artists for 2024, we look forward to welcoming you to our home and our community at Rimbun Dahan! Before you confirm your acceptance of this residency, please ensure you are comfortable with the following terms and conditions.
During the period of your residency, Rimbun Dahan will provide:
- Private fan-cooled accommodation, including water and electricity, with a bathroom and kitchen. [In some cases, the kitchen may be shared with 1 other resident artist.] The kitchen is fully equipped with crockery (plates, bowls), cutlery (knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks), utensils (knives, spatulas, graters, cutting boards, can openers, etc.) and equipment, including fridge, stove, rice cooker and toaster.
- Private fan-cooled studio or work space, including sink with water and electricity.
- A living allowance of MYR1,000 per month.
- Access to on-site facilities including clothes washing machine, swimming pool, Taman Sari vegetable garden, tennis court, exercise equipment, library, and shared office space (WiFi equipped).
- Guidelines for living at Rimbun Dahan before your arrival, and orientation upon arrival to our site, facilities and operations.
- Cleaning of your accommodation every 2 weeks. All other cleaning is up to you.
- Transport to a local supermarket once a week, if required.
- Occasional optional social mixers and excursions to local cultural events with other resident artists.
- Occasional optional guided introductions to the heritage buildings, indigenous garden/arboretum, permanent collection of artworks, and the heritage textile collection.
Rimbun Dahan does NOT provide:
- Meals or groceries.
- Art materials or funding for art materials or artistic collaborators.
- Flights to and from Malaysia, or funding for airfares.
- Transfers between KL International Airport and Rimbun Dahan.
- Any other local transport costs.
- Travel visas, and any costs for procuring and maintaining travel visas, including short trips out of Malaysia to neighbouring countries.
- Airconditioning or WiFi in accommodation or studio spaces.
Our expectations for resident artists:
- Resident artists will use the residency to engage in the development of their artistic practice. The resident is NOT required to fulfil the outcomes of the artistic proposal as submitted in the application, although this is preferred.
- Rimbun Dahan should be your primary home and full-time work place for the duration of your residency. This includes sleeping here at night, and being here on weekends. Occasional trips into the city are fine.
- Malaysian artists should not be carrying on full-time or substantial part-time work (i.e. more than 2 days per week) in the city. Please discuss this with the residency manager if you plan to be away regularly.
- Southeast Asian artists are encouraged to travel within Malaysia during their stay (and may be required to travel overseas to renew their visas), but such trips should not be longer than a few days and should be discussed with the residency managers.
- Resident artists are expected to participate in 1 scheduled Open Day during their residency. Open Days invite the public to visit the studios of the artists to meet the artists and experience the art works being developed. On Open Days, the artist is expected to be on site and available to share in discussions about their art with visitors. The format can be discussed with the residency manager, and depends on the genre of the artists: for example, performing artists may offer a workshop or studio performance, writers may give readings. An Open Day is NOT guaranteed, however. Other than Open Day, the residency does not offer any kind of exhibition or performance production.
- Visual artists are expected to leave 1 artwork that has been made at Rimbun Dahan for our Permanent Collection. Selection can be decided by the artist, or the artist may invite the residency manager to discuss the selection of the work. If you are planning to make only one single work during the course of your residency, then you should discuss this requirement in advance with the residency manager.
- Resident artists are expected to acknowledge the Rimbun Dahan Residency as a source of support when work created here features significantly in the first instance in any publication, exhibition, performance or other dissemination to the public. As such, resident artists may use their residency to create work for display/sale for external commissions, exhibitions, performances, partnerships & collaborations, etc.
- Non-Malaysian resident artists are responsible for their own immigration/visa status. We do not provide work visas for resident artists. ASEAN passport holders are usually given a Short Term Social Pass automatically on entry, which usually lasts only 30 days. If you are interested in a residency longer than 1 month, you may need to exit the country for a few days to renew your social pass. You will need to support the costs of this travel. If you want a residency longer than 1 month, it does not need to take place consecutively; for example, for a two-month residency, one month of the residency can take place in February, and one month can take place in September.
Acceptance of Terms
These terms will be laid out in a Letter of Offer, which we will send to you once we have fixed the dates of your residency next year. Your signature of the Letter of Offer will indicate your acceptance of these terms.
If you have any questions or concerns about the terms & conditions of this residency, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the arts manager by email at arts@rimbundahan.org, before you sign the Letter of Offer.
