Latin America and the Caribbean

Antikythera’s five-month speculative design-research Studio will run from February to June 2023. Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds will take part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research building on the programme’s theme of ‘planetary computation’. Activities take place in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Seoul.

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo invite artists and/or collectives who are from the Global South, from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), or who have lived in these regions for at least five years, as well as indigenous artists of any nationalities to participate in the open call for the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. Presented works will be eligible for a number of awards including residency prizes.

Orbitals is a recurrent programme which takes four curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to an international location to learn about a different artistic context. This year’s edition of Orbitals, taking place over ten days in November, is an introduction to some of the art activity in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Los Goethe-Institut en Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brasil y Colombia junto a Espacio Checoeslovaquia, el Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE en Chile, el Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas de Uruguay y la Akademie für Theater und Digitalität Dortmund hacen un llamado abierto a grupos interdisciplinarios de Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brasil y Colombia, integrados por creadores/as y realizadores/as de las artes escénicas y de disciplinas técnicas y mediales para presentar proyectos escénicos que exploren el uso de medios y tecnologías digitales.

The Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist’s Residency is a programme to support Caribbean artists working in digital media. During the virtual residency, the artist will remain based at their usual location, interacting with the administrators, mentor, and TCD community members via standard online media and tools. They will then present their work at the TCD annual conference in December 2022.

The City as Forest Residency Programme offers immersion for research and experimentation, meant for artists and scientists interested in developing their work in the urban environment of Rio de Janeiro. The programme will run 16 May – 4 June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Applicants from Brazil, Germany and Switzerland are invited to apply.

EMX are calling for European participants to join a physical trade mission to Mexico City (23-29 May 2022).  Details: 

Submissions are open for the 11th edition of PRISMA–International Contemporary Dance Festival of Panama to be held in Panama City from 8-16 October 2022. The length of submitted work must be between 20 and 60 minutes. Proposed pieces can be designed for theatre setting or for public/alternative spaces.

The UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean is in charge of the implementation of the UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, supported by the European Union. The Programme is built on two components: the first focusing on strengthening the skills and capacities of young cultural professionals and the second on enhancing opportunities through knowledge transfer and exchanges.

Chercheurs d’art is organising a residency of 4 to 5 weeks at the Centre d’Art et de Recherche de Mana (CARMA), in French Guiana, around the theme ‘design, furniture, wood’. The residency is aimed at professional or emerging visual artists working in the field of wood sculpture and/or furniture, design, cabinet making. The residency will begin 11 October 2021 (or at another agreed time).

The Brazilian organisation Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural is inviting artists, curators and scientists willing to work in Art and Science to apply for the programme ‘Resilience: artist in residence’, which will take place between between 22 August – 12 September 2021 in the Environmental Protection Area of Serrinha do Alambari and on the Itatiaia National Park’s plateau.