In collaboration with Samong Haven, Bali
Residency dates: 3 – 30 November 2025
Residency #32 — Rethinking Tourism Network: Cultural Heritage and Identity is PRAKSIS’s third collaboration with Samong Haven, Bali. Its research will focus on the invention and promotion of authentic, responsible cultural heritage practices, asking how these practices might benefit both locals and visitors in tourism-saturated environments such as that of Bali. The residency participants will exchange knowledge across cultural, disciplinary and geographic contexts, exploring how tourism can sustain rather than erode cultural and ecological integrity.
This month-long research and networking programme will include workshops, site visits, collaborative working, writing, video interviews and art making. The programme includes the international conference Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism, Heritage, and Ecology, (10–12 November, Denpasar, Indonesia), an exploration by artists, academics and community organisers of the ways that tourism, heritage and ecology contribute to the construction, contestation and reimagination of national identity in a changing world. The conference is co-organised with Warmadewa International Interdisciplinary Studies Programme (WIISP).
Residency #32 brings together an international group of artists, architects, researchers and cultural practitioners, including Nicholas J. Jones, Founder and Artistic Director of PRAKSIS; Truls Ramberg, Curator at KORO – Public Art Norway (NO); Victor Mutelekesha, Artist and Founder of Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (ZM); Don Lawrence, Architect and Lead at Don Lawrence Arkitekt AS (NO); Dr. Hyungyu Park, Associate Professor in Tourism at Middlesex University (KR/UK); Gabriella Manurung, Programme Director at Sepatokimin Initiative (ID); Stephanie Florence, Artist and Curator (CA); Elise Hoebeke, Artist and Lecturer (BE), Cynthia M. Burgos López, Co-founder and Executive Director of La Maraña (PR), Eri Rama Putra, Artist and Photographer (ID) and Gatari Surya Kusuma, Researcher and Curator (ID).
