Dialog City Art For Public Residency Programme invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for the respective urban society based on participatory approach. The Call for 2024 is now open for the residency in Graz (Austria), from 2 May to 15 June 2024.
By developing new practices on how to connect digital innovation directly to citizens’ physical participation, the European cooperation project Dialog City aims at contributing to increase access to culture through a dialogical approach. Co-creation is at the core, encompassing a Citizen Archive Platform for the cultural heritage sector and an innovative design thinking toolkit on Future Literacy.
Annual Hybrid Festivals serve as physical and digital cultural platforms to reach diverse audiences. Participating European cities are Mondoví (IT) in 2023, Graz (AT) in 2024, Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR) in 2025. The resulting art works of the respective residencies will be shown locally during the annual Hybrid Festival as well as online.
For the Graz residency Dialog City aims to prevent data loss and enhance their cultural heritage profile. By developing new practices to connect digital innovation directly to citizens’ physical participation, Dialog City aims to increase access to culture through a dialogical approach.
The residency is open to all artistic disciplines (visual arts, writing, performance, new media, etc.) and other creative practices including, but not limited to, design, architecture, and education. They strongly encourage applicants with interdisciplinary and participatory/socially engaged art practices. The residency programme is open to emerging, mid-career, and established artists and creative practitioners who have a dedicated studio practice and professional demeanour.
Artists of all nationalities can apply, but they must reside in the European Union or in one of the accession countries.
Dialog City will provide accomodation, an artist fee of 3,500 EUR (per diems are included in the fee), material costs of up to 2,000 EUR (costs must be specified in the application) and travel costs up to 1,300 EUR (train, bus or car are preferred).