Sonic Acts and Rupert residency programme ‘Alterlife’, focused on collaborative responses to the compounding ecological crisis, are calling for interdisciplinary artists or collectives to apply for a two-part research and production residency at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania (September – October 2024), and with Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (February 2025). These residencies are followed by the development and production of a new commission for exhibition at Rupert and Sonic Acts in late 2025 and early 2026.
We are living in what Indigenous feminist scholar Michelle Murphy describes as the state of ‘alterlife’, transformed by the chemical entanglements built up in our societies over the centuries of colonial and capitalist exploitation of both humans and non-humans. Guided by the methodology of critical walking practices, we invite proposals that use imagination to forge alliances and create alternative narratives about our political realities.
This residency welcomes all EU-based artists. They encourage individual artists or duos who take a multidisciplinary approach, particularly practices which incorporate sound and video.
Individual artists or collectives are provided with one residency studio (maximum 2 person occupancy) and one stipend for two months. Applications can be submitted by families, but note that the kitchen, bathroom and toilet facilities at Rupert are shared between the residents and other tenants in the building.
Sonic Acts’ studio infrastructure consists of two state-of-the-art audio/video studios equipped with professional audio, video and lighting equipment. These studios are modular and can be configured per project. Sonic Acts has an extensive multichannel audio setup, 3D and VR glasses and projectors, various workstations, streaming facilities, and high-end cameras, sensors, microphones and field recording kits. In addition, the organisation owns software licenses for professional audio and video productions, 3D modelling and spatial sound. An electronics workshop is available for building instruments and prototypes, and several workplaces for makers and designers. Sonic Acts archive, both in physical form and digitally, is available for research.
The residency provides a stipend of 3,400 EUR for a 3-month residency period in both locations, travel to both locations (up to 400 EUR per location), and research/production support for an artwork (to be discussed with the resident).
