The 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 2025 is now open for the art residency in Montpellier (France), held from 21 April to 20 June 2025.
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 increasing 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 Future Festivals serve as physical and digital cultural platforms to reach diverse audiences. Participating European cities are Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR) in 2025 and the resulting art works of the residencies will be shown locally during the Future Festival as well as online.
The Montpellier residency is developed around the question of how human identities and bodies are increasingly shaped by the digital data we produce and consume.
Dialog City Art for Public Residency Programme is open to all artistic disciplines (e.g., visual arts, writing, performance, new media, etc.) and other creative practices including, but not limited to, design, architecture, gardening, food design and education. They strongly encourage applicants with interdisciplinary and participatory/socially engaged art practices to apply.
Artists of all nationalities can apply, but they must reside in the European Union or in one of the accession countries.
The project provides the following:
- Accommodation
- Artist fee of 3,500 EUR (per diems are included in the fee)
- Material costs of up to 2,000 EUR
- Travel costs up to 1,300 EUR, including return ticket from the origin and local transport in Montpellier
