MASSIA is an artist-run, self-organised residency space in rural Estonia, inviting residents to motorise their own capacity to (co)create the desired conditions for creating work and producing knowledge. Alongside developing their own practice, residents are invited to participate in collective practices, exchange and collaboration.
SPROUT is a residency programme for artists and cultural practitioners who work at the intersection of art and ecology and are based in a Nordic or a Baltic country (except Estonia). From September 2023 to June 2024, MASSIA will host 6 individual practitioners and 2 collectives for residencies ranging from 1-2 months, supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
This call is for individual and collective proposals that relate to the specific context of MASSIA: a context in which a deep curiosity for ecology goes hand-in-hand with a commitment to experiments in self-organisation. The organisers are looking for practitioners who have the desire and capacity to re-think and care for the reproductional sphere (that is, the sphere of human and non-human labour that maintains life for our-selves and others in shared ecologies) through their artistic practices. Diversity, pro-activity, complexity and radical experimentation are welcome, as are many other things that cannot be imagined yet.
Residents are invited to follow their individual working processes with the option of developing collaborative projects, reflections and research with fellow residents while immersing themselves in the multispecies ecologies that MASSIA is part of and situated within. The programme facilitates opportunities to connect with local people and places through organised visits and field trips, as well as offering a platform for, and assistance with, sharing working processes with relevant communities and audiences.
SPROUT will end with a gathering planned for 10-15 June 2024, during which all residents will be invited to get together for a convivial moment of practice- and knowledge-sharing, and to map a common ground.
The programme provides:
- Travel expenses up to 250€ per resident (per residency, as well as per attendance of final gathering).
- Accommodation and studio space.
- Artist fee of €800 per month for individual residents.
- Artist fee of €2100 per month for a small collective with up to 3 members.
- Artist fee of €3500 per month for a medium-sized collective with up to 5 members.
- Material expenses of up to 300€ for individual and 400€ for collective residencies.
