Khoj invites artists to critically examine and question the shifting entanglements between bodies, technologies, and systems of power for its upcoming residency – BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS. Khoj invites artists from Chile, India, Netherlands, and the UK to apply for a fully funded, seven-week, on-site residency taking place in New Delhi, India, between October and December 2025.
In its second iteration, the programme seeks to foreground practices and inquiries that can map the shifting terrain of digital life through critique and the articulation of alternate possibilities. BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS is an inquiry which has emerged from this urgency to understand how evolving technologies transform and reorganise what it means to be human, to inhabit gender, caste and other socio-ecological formations, in the 2020s and beyond, globally.
Khoj in collaboration with NAVE (Chile), Immersive Arts Space at ZHdK (Switzerland), and Kornhausforum (Bern), is part of a two-year long, multi-sited research initiative. The project offers artists time and space to develop research-driven practices that probe the entanglements of bodies, machines, and publics, in a ‘glocal’ context.
This application is open to a diverse range of creative practices. Artists and creative practitioners with a focus on innovative concepts spanning objects, installations, artefacts, performances, screenings, and interventions within the realms of Interactive Art, BioArt, Hybrid Art, AI & Life Sciences, Sound Art, Net Art, Digital Communities, amongst others, are encouraged to apply.
Khoj will provide travel, accommodation at Khoj premises, per-diem, and a production budget of up to 2,00,000 INR for each artist. Khoj has partnered with the HIVE Lab at IIT Kanpur to support artists with the fabrication of their proposed projects.
