Asia

Mekong Cultural Hub is calling for applications from community arts practitioners from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, or Vietnam with at least two years of experience to join their learning programme ‘Experiments in Community Collaboration’. A total of 8-10 people (‘Fellows’) will be selected to take part in the programme, which will take place over six months, from June – November 2023.

ACC is calling for experimental works of performance to be part of ACT Festival (10-19 November 2023). Local and international artists (individuals or teams of up to 3 people) are eligible to apply.

Art Center Nabi’s residency programme will run 14 August – 6 October 2023. It is organised in collaboration with Misk Art Institute, and is open to international artists interested in ‘East’ at the intersection of Art, Technology and Society.

Based in Georgia from 10-31 July 2023, the Sound Bridge project will bring together 12 musicians (ages 20-40 years) from Armenia, Georgia, and Türkiye to co-create original music and develop creative approaches to dialogue. The programme will begin with a residency in Svaneti, Georgia, where selected Fellows will create new musical works, producing an album of recorded material and several short videos, and conclude with performances and workshops in Tbilisi.

The Musicology Department at the Hebrew University and the Tzlil Meudcan International Contemporary Chamber Music Festival invite doctoral and post-doctoral students in musicology to apply for the Tzlil Meudcan musicological roundtables in Tel Aviv from 3-7 July 2023.

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay invites artists, curators, programmers, writers, researchers and practitioners across all disciplines in the performing arts to apply for the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, taking place in Singapore between April and June 2024. In 2024, the residency presents the thematic focus Decentring Access, which aims to engage the term’s multiple definitions and usages in all contexts and facilitate nuance in access-related discussions.

Wonju City of Literature offers an opportunity for one writer from another UNESCO city of literature to come for an 8 week residency (1 September – 31 October 2023) at Toji Cultural Centre. Applicants must have at least B2 level in English.

Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics (NCA) invites Iranian and Georgian independent artists and art organisation representatives to submit project proposals for the ‘NCA Cultural Crossroad: Visit of modern artists from Georgia and Iran’ programme. The programme funds projects in fine arts, theatre, dance and music. The duration of projects should be 20 days and can be implemented any time between 1 May – 15 June 2023.

The NOOR Visualising Climate Crisis: Advanced Mentoring Programme is an 8-month advanced visual storytelling training course dedicated to photographers and visual journalists from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. The programme, which is taught in English, is a combination of two physical workshops in Hanoi, Vietnam and a 5-month online mentorship programme to develop individual projects on the Climate Crisis in the region. The new work will be presented as a collective outdoor exhibition in Hanoi in September 2023.

ADAM Artist Lab is a collaborative, artist-led, and research-based residency programme allowing artists from across various performative practices to think and work together in a creative process, inventing new ideas and future collaborations. The 2023 ADAM Artist Lab proposes the notion of ‘queer ecology’ in the post-pandemic era to create speculate on human and non-human ecosystem through a queer lens. Artists with practices related to the theme and interested in collaborative research are invited to apply for the Lab, taking place from 31 July - 27 August 2023.

The young, daring and driven are invited to apply to Trans Europe Halles’ free 9 month mentoring programme ‘Duct tape and Dreams’ (running February - October 2023). Duct Tape and Dreams is a hands-on mentoring and capacity building programme for emerging artistic collectives that provides young and committed creatives with the necessary tools and expertise to build a sustainable future in the independent cultural sector.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency programme will support residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art.