Cyprus

BOW – Bodies of Work #2 is a five-day intensive theoretical and performative training programme that will take place at the Dance House Lefkosia in Nicosia from 6-10 December 2023.

Thinker Makers Space (TMS) of CYENS is pleased to announce an open call for the multi-discipline design residency program ‘Modular Design Apparatus – A multi-discipline build for Migrants’ Reception Centre’. Applicants should be resident in a Creative Europe country (excluding Cyprus).

UNIDEE Residency Programs, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Kimonos Art Center have announced a joint open call for a four-week Research Residency between Cyprus and Italy for an international artist or researcher, who will spend two weeks in Paphos from 6-20 November 2023 and two weeks in Biella from 21 November - 5 December 2023. The residency is an opportunity to develop or continue their artistic research linked to a socially responsible transformation, and specifically to environmental and ecological issues.

Organised by NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol, Cyprus from 3-4 November 2023, MoneyLab#13 aims to interrogate the state of our recent and emerging technologies, and how they relate to hegemonic economies working around three themes: blockchain, DAOs, NFTs and other crypto-related topics; dematerialisation of money, cashless society, CBDC/digital euro; revenue models for the arts. To this end, NeMe are seeking submissions for:

The aim of the ‘Boundary-Crosser’ residency project is to provide an opportunity for artists to explore creative intersections and processes with technologists. Selected artists will be hosted by one of the 8 participating CYENS Centre of Excellence Labs and will generate artistic work, during and after their time of residency. Residencies run 2-4 months.

The COST-funded action Toolkit of Care (TOC), had released an open call for two individual artist residencies (‘Short-Term Scientific Missions’) – one at Apo33, France (26 September – 8 October 2023); and one at MADLab, Cyprus University of Technology (dates tbc).

Theatre in Palm, an international project funded by Creative Europe, is hosting a Hybrid Residency on 6–17 November 2023. During the 2-week residency you will work with 10 local artists and 20 international artists, both live and online. The residency will end with 4–12 co-produced, new theatre pieces that are shared online with the whole group of 120 artists, plus 12 mentors, and the rest of the online world. Applicants must be resident in EU countries.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months in 2024. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

The WIP Arts and Technology Festival invites artists from all over the world to showcase their work in WIP23 which will take place in the CYENS Centre of Excellence and various venues in the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus between 20 October – 3 November 2023.

The European project Sensin is calling for artists based in Spain, Greece and Cyprus who in their creative work explore the possibilities of the senses – Taste, Smell, Sight (Light), Hearing (Sound), Touch (Texture/Materials) – to apply for a residency in Cyprus during July 2023.

IN EX(ILE) LAB are looking for artists in exile who want to develop a performance. If you are an artist in exile, currently based in Cyprus, France, Italy or Portugal and you have (or would like to develop) an artistic practice that relates to performance then IN EX(ILE) LAB wants to hear from you. Activities take place over the period from May 2023 to July 2024.

As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, LOOP (a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image) will commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia). Multidisciplinary artists who are legal residents in the European Union can apply.