by Artsformation
Artsformation invites you to apply to the Resistance Residency hosted in Lesvos-Greece. The Residency will bring together professionals from the fields of art, culture and creative industries in a dedicated space where they can express their voices in shaping the future of Europe’s digital transformation through their practice. The Residency will enable multidisciplinary creative professionals to challenge established power structures and empower the communities they serve in cohesively responding to 21st Century digital transformation challenges.
These are testing times for our European community. As we are slowly emerging from years-long lockdowns, it is becoming evident that during the pandemic, governments chose to support corporations and the financial elite rather than communities and people. Together with vulnerable and marginalised communities, the virus also decimated the capacity of arts and culture empowering them to rise. For the first time since World War II, arts and culture practices had to shut their doors, postpone projects, cancel events, and purge frontline services for socio-economically excluded groups who do not have means to alternatives.
Resistance residents will be invited to collaboratively ideate and co-create unconventional training tools for peers, policy makers, businesses, and the public to tackle digital and social inequalities arising from the digital transformation. Further, residents will engage in participatory action, peer learning, and civic engagement as mechanisms for social change. This will help in streamlining the formation and mobilisation of a European artistic community which proactively responds to the challenges of the digital transformation. Each residency cycle concludes with a public exhibition in Lesvos, where the artistic outputs, tools, and toolkits developed will be presented to key stakeholders and the public.
The programme is open to citizens of the European Economic Area and covers travel and accommodation costs.
For more information, please refer to the website of organisation.
