The culture centre Pragiedruliai invites interdisciplinary artists from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to apply for their new residency programme. The programme offers a grant, studio space, and the opportunity to create and live in Panevėžys for 1-2 months (August 2023 - September 2023), initiate new projects, continue existing ones, and become part of a newly emerging cultural centre.
The topic of the residency, ‘Make Us Make Sense’, is an invitation to rethink and take a critical look at frequently heard words: community, creativity, sustainability. After being spoken and heard many times, they began to look meaningless, lost their colour, and became formless. Make Us Make Sense is a request to search for new meanings, and depth, raise questions, reconsider the use of words. Do we believe in the words community, creativity, sustainability, because they are written in the vocabulary of the project? Does it touch on the social, progress, ecological aspect? What alternatives to these terms can we look for? What can be false, strange, crooked, extended, or transcended in them?
The resident will be provided with a 23 sq. m. studio and will have all the necessary equipment for living. The resident will also be given a grant of 5490 EUR, travel expenses will be covered (up to EUR 240), and workspace will be provided.
