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Tiny Spaces: Slow Travel Residency for Process-led and Site-specific Creation (Greece, Finland, Germany)

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The Tiny Spaces Deep Connections (TiSp) open call 2025 is calling for applications from artists and creatives (resident in EU or Creative Europe countries) who focus on process-led and site-specific creation for six residency spots between May and July 2025, that will take place in Athens, Greece; Oulu, Finland; and Potsdam / Berlin, Germany.

The unique experience this residency includes is the opportunity to slow travel using public transport, while artists are also supported to integrate that journey creatively in their residency. Artists are invited to create process-based artwork in trains and ferries or alternatively buses. In the interim stops of the travel, TiSp activates international connections, and fosters deeper ones, by linking artists to cultural or cohousing spaces (such as the Trans Europe Halles network). After spending time with the destination organisation, artists slowly travel back home.

Each destination location offers an anchor to their community and network through spaces – like a fishing hut, a trailer, a tiny temple and a loft – while all of them share embedded processes of creative reuse. In parallel, each location will have a virtual twin hosted on the website, that can extend the working space and connect artists to a bigger international audience.

As the project closes in 2026 all participants will have the opportunity to physically and/or digitally exhibit their work at the TiSp International Symposium and Exhibition in Oulu in August 2026.

Artists of any media can apply: all artforms will be considered (eg. visual arts, text, mixed media, sound, audiovisual, digital, actors, dancers, performers, musicians, writers, makers, creative thinkers, designers, etc.). Collectives are eligible to apply, but due to the limited financial resources of the residency, a maximum of one representative of the collective can travel, and receive the fixed fee, however they can choose to split it and for the rest of the collective to work remotely.

Each artist receives a fee of 4,000 EUR (gross) for the one-month residency, including the time required for the travel, plus travel costs, depending on the journeys.

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