Migration

Incubator is an initiative calling for workshop proposals to equip artists with the hands-on knowledge required to successfully design, coordinate, and facilitate online workshops across six categories: Immigration, Migration, Mobility; Gender and Equity; Climate Action; Indigenous, Afro, and Caribbean Cosmogonies; Food Futures; Conversation Through Curation.

The international lab ‘Urban Citizenship in Transition’ (15-21 September 2023) will bring together 18 young professionals from civic organisations and initiatives across Germany, Moldova and Georgia who are actively engaged in working with individuals with migrant or refugee backgrounds.

MigraNetz Thüringen are looking for artistic proposals for public space as part of the travelling exhibition Kein schöner _____ in dieser Zeit. Artworks and performances are sought that deal with the realities of migration in East Germany and the history of the region. The exhibition will tour through Suhl, Nordhausen and Saalfeld from the end of August to mid-September 2022.

Launched by IWM - Institute for Human Sciences in collaboration with the  Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group  (CRG) in June 2020, the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration places a particular focus on South Asia and its European-Asian dimension. The programme is inviting up to two participants from Europe engaged in care/protection work to take part in CRG’s Five-Day Camp on Ethics of ‘Solidarity, Care, and Protection’, to be held 23-27 January 2022 in Darjiling, India.

The Romanian Association of Contemporary Art (ARAC) is offering a six-week residency opportunity for a curator to explore the art-scene in Bucharest and Romania at large. The curatorial residency will take place December 2021 – January 2022.

The Romanian Association of Contemporary Art (ARAC) in Bucharest, Romania is offering a six-week residency, October - November 2021, for an artist working in any medium of contemporary art. The themes of this year’s residency are focused on climate change, migration and technological development.

The European project Intimate Bridges is a collaboration with theatre companies and civil society organisations that tries to bridge the gaps between refugee/migrant and local communities. An international conference is being organised on 14 September 2021 in Athens to present Intimate Bridges, and companies with similar projects (or intentions to start them) are invited to apply to participate.

Together with the Goethe-Institut and the Martin Roth-Initiative, ifa invites proposals for a research project on the topic of ‘Mobility restrictions for the international relocation of at-risk artists: Learnings for (post-)pandemic times’. The researcher’s study will be published in the form of a written report and the researcher will present interim results at an online workshop. The assignment lasts 4 months starting April 2021.

ACCR – a network of cultural heritage sites – has launched a call for its Nora residency programme, aimed at artists, researchers and culture professionals, from the Near and Middle East and from Africa, who have recently received refugee status in France. Priority will be given to refugees from: Syria, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan, Eritrea and Yemen. In applying, residents select a cultural centre that matches their residency project.

Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) is currently inviting proposals for a research project titled ‘Culture of Remembrance and Migration: 60 Years of German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement’. The research will start in November 2020 with outputs in the format of a study and workshop. Location of work is flexible.

‘Performing Resistance, Dialogues on Arts, Migrations, Inclusive Cities, an International Online Summer School’ will take place 16-20 June 2020. A series of online talks, lectures and meetings streamed on Facebook and YouTube will feature international scholars, curators and artists. Performing Resistance is a digital discursive platform aimed at exploring the ways in which artistic practices build spaces of resistance, forms of subversion, counter-hegemonic postures on migration, actions capable of outlining other visions of and in contemporary cities. (No application needed - open to all.)