Residency dates: 12 August – 11 September 2025
Application deadline: 23:59 CET, 5 January 2025
Sustain yourself (don’t be in the way, don’t encroach); at the same time, be useful (observe; introduce yourself, unobtrusively; deliver supplies; find your place; determine your role, humbly)
– Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon: Dispatch
Climate change is indisputably a problem that is largely created by a privileged elite from the Global North, but it disproportionately impacts nations and regions in the South, alongside those in the north who have least resources to protect themselves from its effects. How might artists, wherever they come from, mobilise the local knowledge of individuals and communities from the Global South as they act in relation to climate crisis? How can they absorb and/or deploy globally interconnected knowledge and skills without reproducing the imperialist concepts and practices that underpinned colonial modernity?
Developed with the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN), PRAKSIS residency 30, Climate / Coloniality invites artists to consider sustainability in the context of critical approaches to colonial knowledge, and explore new modes of community-engaged practice on a planet under threat.
More information
Applications are welcomed from local, national and international people with relevant interest and experience. The residency may be particularly relevant to cultural (or other) practitioners, performers, critics and researchers seeking to explore questions of artistic practice and environmental change in relation to local knowledge systems and movements. It aims to be a place of open exchange and sharing, in order to facilitate critical reflection on the geopolitics of environmental knowledge and the distribution of artistic resources addressing global issues.
The group will collectively plan a residency schedule. The schedule will include daily group meetings and joint activities such as readings, discussions, visits to relevant spaces in Oslo, networking events, communal meals and socialising, alongside unstructured time for independent reflection and research. In the first week, residents will participate in PRAKSIS’s customary “Meet the Residents” event, informally introducing themselves and their practices to the rest of the group and the Oslo arts community.
About APARN
The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) aims to map artistic research initiatives and activities in the Asia Pacific region, to provide a regional framework for practical collaboration between individuals and institutions, and to develop an understanding of the local cultural dynamics that influence artistic research activities in the Asia Pacific region. APARN was initiated by the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. It is a Special Interest Group of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).
Kurniawan Adi Saputro, a lecturer at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, specialises in arts research methods, visual media, and cultural activism. Since his study on mediated responses to natural disasters in 2014, he has been focusing on climate change education through photos, texts, and festivals, with publications on climate education for teens, socio-economic impacts of festivals, and climate justice for women and disabled individuals.
Danny Butt is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Practice and Coordinator of Research in Design and Production at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Artistic Research in the Future Academy, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Artistic Research. He works with the Auckland-based art collective Local Time, and is Chair of the board of experimental sound arts organisation Liquid Architecture.
Helly Minarti is based in Yogyakarta where she works as independent curator/dramaturg, aligning her practices to rethink radical strategies that connect practice and theory within the realm of contemporary performance. Her primary interest is on historiographies of choreography as discursive practice: exploring the eclectic knowledge that permeates the complex interrelationship of human body, consciousness and nature. She has curated work at various platforms, most recently realising the performance The Sea Within for the 2023 Taipei Arts Festival.
What the Residency Provides
An active, facilitated programme connected with the residency topic.
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A communal work space at PRAKSIS, in the centre of Oslo.
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Comfortable shared accommodation (with your own bedroom) for non-Oslo based residents. Oslo-based residents will continue to stay at their local address.
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A stipend of 10,000 NOK for those who cannot participate otherwise. Limited stipends available, select this option in the application form.
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Weekly group dinners with invited guests. On weekdays, PRAKSIS will provide lunch at PRAKSIS HQ.
Oslo has a vibrant arts landscape. PRAKSIS will provide help link residents to the city’s cultural scene, informing them about exhibitions, talks, performances and other events. PRAKSIS seeks wherever possible to connect participants with relevant organisations and individuals in Oslo, introducing the residency community to Oslo creatives in various spheres, including curators, writers, and artists.
Activities and events will be developed in dialogue with the residency group, and are mainly held at PRAKSIS’s space in central Oslo. At the start of the residency, participants are invited to make a presentation, informally introducing themselves and their practice to the rest of the group. Other activities include residency-related visits, a tour of Oslo’s galleries, networking events, discussions and group critiques – some open to the public. A seminar event will address issues surrounding the residency theme.
Residents are responsible for their own travel and any further costs.
Our team is happy to support applications for external grants wherever possible.
Requirements
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English is the common language at PRAKSIS and residents must be sufficiently fluent to participate in group discussion and activity.
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Residents are expected to involve themselves fully in the work of the residency: joining discussions, participating in events and engaging with the resident community.
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Accepting a residency involves a commitment to participation for the full residency term.
Application guidelines
Submit application via Google form by 5 January 2025 at 23:59 CET. Here you will be asked to:
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Summarise your practice (max. 600 characters)
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How does your current practical work or research relate to the residency theme? (max. 1500 characters)
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What particular topics or questions would you like to explore during the residency, and how would you like to address them? (max. 1500 characters)
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How will this experience benefit you and your practice at this stage of your career? Do you have longer-term goals or project concepts that relate to the residency programme? (max. 1500 characters)
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How do you hope to contribute to the residency programme? (max. 1500 characters)
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Adding a CV and/or short bio
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Include contact details for two academic or professional referees. (They will only be contacted if you are invited to interview.)
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Work sample: Portfolio (only one PDF file with all images and texts). Up to 5 images will be accepted. The images should include captions or short descriptions. Alternatively you may include a link (or links) to your website. If submitting a large website – please link to individual projects you’d like us to look at.
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Pay the application fee
Selections will be made by Helly Minarti, Danny Butt, Kurniawan Adi Saputro and members of the PRAKSIS team. Online interviews will be conducted with shortlisted candidates shortly after the application deadline.
Application Fee
There is an application fee of 75 NOK (equal to €6.39 as of 14/11/24). The fee covers part of the cost of administering your application. It is paid via the application form.
Timeline
Open call: 18 November 2024 – 5 January 2025
Interviews dates: around 15 January 2025
Residency: 12 August – 11 September 2025
