The association KIKK which promotes digital and creative cultures at the crossroads between art, science, technology and society, as well as its Creative Hub: Protolab & Medialab TRAKK, are launching an Arts & Sciences residency programme around the theme ‘Ecological Futures’, organised in partnership with the CCN/Namur Cultural Center.
Two artists and/or collectives will be welcomed in residence (one international and one from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation) in the beautiful studios (2 apartments that can each accommodate up to 2 people) located at the Centre Culturel des Abattoirs de Bomel from 24 April – 21 May 2023. Each artist or collective will receive a grant to develop an Art / Science project on the theme of ecological futures, as well as curatorial and scientific support to develop their production project.
The residency gives artistic researchers from various fields the opportunity to work on the intersection of art, science and ecological questions. The aim is to develop useful arts-led interdisciplinary research tools and artworks to examine how cultural practitioners critically address and creatively negotiate ecological futures.
The call includes the research field of the climate crisis and global warming, loss of biodiversity, models of human and non-human co-existence, and the interrelationships of different ecosystems, in relation to the following questions: How can we reduce our ecological footprint and decolonise nature? What do new models of human and non-human co-existences look like? What kind of promising changes does biotechnology offer? And how can we create a new consciousness and awareness regarding the imbalance of nature and culture?
The grant includes:
- A total budget of €10,000 (€5000 per resident). This includes the expenses for materials, food and travel for a period of four weeks.
- Accommodation (studio from 39 to 47m2) with a bathroom, a kitchenette, an office space and a bedroom space and an internet connection.
- Access to the Protolab TRAKK and its machines (3D printers, vinyl cutter, digital milling machine, laser cutter, electronic equipment, woodworking, etc.) as well as technical support.
- Access to the TRAKK Medialab and its equipment (motion capture suits, VR headsets, computer optimised for game engines, sound studio, binaural microphone heads, etc.).
- Use of the workshops of the CCN/Centre culture de Namur (on the site of the Abattoirs de Bomel: woodworking, ironwork and silk-screening workshops; assistance and initiation by the technical management).
