The Goethe-Institut Nigeria is calling for applications from residency spaces across Africa to apply for the Residency Re-Sourced project, an innovative initiative aimed at addressing sustainability challenges and enhancing resource management in the management of art residency spaces.
Residency Re-Sourced seeks to engage art residency spaces across African countries in a metalogue, a participatory conversation around resourcing art residency spaces. The project focuses on investigating successful models for sustaining art residency spaces and their contribution to creating a vibrant creative landscape in African cities. The goal is to support residency spaces that offer programs fostering intra-African and transcontinental mobility and exchange.
There will be online training and workshops, shared resources, networking opportunities, and ongoing advisory support from experts in the field. Each residency space will be matched with a partner residency space and one staff member from each residency will visit the other residency for a period of up to four weeks.
The project is looking for residency spaces that:
- Have a clear objective to start a residency, and have already made the first steps towards it (e.g. by securing a space, signed a lease agreement, etc.)
- Have started a residency programme but still have challenges (financially, legally, in terms of programming, infrastructure, etc.)
- Face sustainability challenges in managing their residency spaces
- Source or try to source their resources locally and innovative ways to enhance resource management and sustainability
- Commit to creating a vibrant and sustainable creative landscape in their local communities
Participants will have access to financial resources of 10,000 EUR max. to support the implementation of sustainable practices in the residency space based on a project proposal.
