Organised in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN)
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.
Timeline
Open call: 18 November 2024 - 5 January 2025
Interviews dates: around 15 January 2025
Residency: 12 August - 11 September 2025
