“Liepāja 2027” is inviting two performance artists of younger generation from the CreArt Network to participate in the Liepāja AiR residency from June 16th to July 17th, 2025. During their stay, the artists will engage in a diverse cultural program designed to expand their understanding of the city and its surrounding region. The expected outcome of the residency is a community-engaging site-specific performative work. The outcomes of the residency will become part of the “Agora of Values” public program organized by Liepāja 2027
The “Agora of Values” project is a series of five forums that form the core of the “European Dream” section of the “Liepāja 2027” program. By bringing together prominent experts from Latvia and Europe, the forums will combine contemporary debates on issues important for Latvia, Europe, and the planet, innovative knowledge exchange formats, diverse audience engagement, and artistic elements that will enrich a wide range of discursive events with a comprehensive aesthetic experience.
The first Agora will take place in the year 2025. At the core of the forum’s idea is the widely accepted principle in modern environmental studies that nature and culture must be seen as an inseparable network of relations – natureculture – beyond the entrenched opposition that still exists in our minds, attitudes, and institutions. From the anthropocentric view characteristic of the early modern era, which saw humans as the crown of creation and rightful users of nature, we have arrived at a posthumanist vision of humanity as one species among many. Nature’s agency, as the core of the forum’s concept, allows for the exploration of a vast array of topics – from renewable energy to plant intelligence – and for articulating scenarios of harmonious and non-hierarchical coexistence between humans, nature, and other species. The discussions of the forum will engage with relevant theoretical perspectives in ecological thinking, such as hydrofeminism, new materialism, agential realism, dark ecology etc.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Performance artists of younger generation with experience in public participation and engagement projects, and whose work focuses on the following topics and fields: participatory performance art practices informed by a postanthropocentric worldview that stresses non-hierarchical immersion of human beings in the environment.
Artist Residency is offered for 2 artists who are:
- born or currently living in any of the cities that participate in ‘CreArt. Network of Cities for Artistic Creation’: Kaunas (Lithuania), Valladolid (Spain),Skopje (Northern Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Rouen and Clermont-Ferrand (France), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic), Oulu (Finland), Regensburg (Germany).
- Members of Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU).
- Ukrainian artists in cooperation with the Lviv Art Council ‘Dialog’.
The selection criteria will aim to represent the quality and diversity of various forms of performance art. Applicants must have a university-level degree in an artistic field or demonstrate equivalent expertise through their artistic career.
GRANT CONDITIONS
The Organizer (Liepāja 2027) will provide:
- Four-week accommodation for two international artists and studio space (if needed);
- Round-trip ticket expenses to and from Liepāja up to 400 EUR;
- Artist fee of 1.600 € (Gross amount) in two payments (50:50): first part at the beginning of the residency and second part after the submission of the final report.
- Production cost in the amount of 800 EUR/gross, result presented in the project “Agora of Values”
- The artist must have a European health insurance card or its equivalent
- Report: Upon return from the residency, artists are required to submit a brief narrative report containing evidence of newly created work/s (in English), and boarding passes if traveling by plane.
- Contract: Before going to the residency, the artist will sign a contract with foundation “Liepāja 2027”.
HOW TO APPLY
In a single PDF document:
- identity card or passport
- a short version of your CV (one or two A4 pages)
- an artist’s portfolio, selection of recent projects (maximum 10 pages and 10 images, you can include links)
- A brief project proposal (maximum one A4 page) outlining why you would like to undertake a residency in Liepāja, including a raw idea description of your performance, including the directions you plan to explore.
Application documentation must be submitted via the artists’ platform on the network’s website: https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/
DEADLINES:
- Applications accepted until: March 31, 2025
- Announcement of results: no later than April 30, 2025
- Contract signing with foundation “Liepāja 2027”: two weeks before departure
- Submission of report: 1 week after the end of the residency
Only complete and timely applications will be considered.
Selection Committee: Baiba Bartkeviča, Anna Priedola, Igors Gubenko, Tīna Pētersone
The Committee is not obliged to justify the selection decision.
QUESTIONS:
The contact person for all questions is Sabine Jermalovica Sabine.jermalovica@liepaja2027.lv
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Partners:
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Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2023-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101128499]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
