The Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv, Ukraine, is calling for applications from theatre and performance creators to develop a new work that will become part of the repertoire. Applications are welcome from directors, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, or creative tandems from Ukraine and abroad. The work will be developed August to September 2025 with the premier in late September to early October 2025.
For this project, the art centre invites artists to reflect on the theme ‘After the Devastation’. Where destruction and loss are ongoing and have become part of a distorted reality, we face a constantly shifting present/future. This reality is inevitably tied to devastation: lost people and territories, severed connections, destroyed non-human beings, ruined ‘things’ and landscapes. Each loss creates a void in the structures of coexistence, mythologies, values, and needs, requiring immediate transformations to adapt. We exist simultaneously in an unending process of ruination and in a state of ‘after’ of destruction, which occurred yesterday, an hour ago or over the past years.
It is expected that applicants have professional experience and at least three implemented performances/art projects. For applicants from other countries, the organisers expect fluent proficiency in English (translation will not be provided during the work).
The organisers provide:
- A net honorarium of UAH 150,000 for an individual artist or up to UAH 250,000 for a tandem.
- A production budget of up to UAH 130,000
- Accommodation in Lviv during the project work period for up to two team members and coverage of travel expenses (within the available budget).
- Management, curatorial and communications support for the project.
- The opportunity to involve up to four actors.
- Access to the Novo1 stage space with basic lighting and sound equipment.
