LONG DURATION

Raegan Truax, Citation, performed for 37-consecutive hours at CounterPulse, San Francisco, photo: Jamie Lyons

LONG DURATION is a residency for performance artists seeking direct mentorship in working with duration as both method and material. The program offers 1:1 mentorship across practice, writing, and professionalization, supporting artists developing durational approaches that span performance, sound art, live art, and contemporary visual art performance.

Rooted in site-responsive methods, LONG DURATION engages different temporal frameworks for thinking and making—attending to how place, environment, and social relations shape embodied practice. The residency supports sustained investigation into how duration can operate not only as form, but as a lived and malleable condition within artistic work.

To Apply: You will find the application form below. Please read all details and submit directly from our website. Applications for 1-3 month periods are read on a rolling basis for places in 2027. Spaces are limited and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible for your desired timeframes and to secure funding. 

Mentorship Includes

  • Structuring and sustaining long-duration processes

  • Temporal composition, dramaturgy, and score-based practices

  • Site-responsive approaches: engaging environment, context, and social relations

  • Embodied research: attention, repetition, accumulation, and transformation over time

  • Writing as a parallel or embedded practice within durational work

  • Practical workshopping of material in extended or iterative formats

By the end of the residency 

you will have:

  • Generated and deepened durational material through mentored sessions

  • Developed your project within a non-competitive, artist-centered framework that supports risk, practicing presence, and individual pacing

  • Received dedicated 1:1 mentorship sessions focused on your artistic process and long-term trajectory

  • Articulated clearer next steps for sustaining, producing, and presenting durational work

  • Engaged in shared practice with your mentor, including witnessing, feedback, and collective reflection over time

  • Explored ways of situating your work in relation to site, context, and audience

  • Shared work-in-progress in a site-responsive or informal public format or executed a final performance with support

  • Joined the Creative Body Institute artist network, with ongoing invitations to future residencies, gatherings, and collaborative opportunities

What To Expect

  • Supportive and focused residency environment dedicated to your durational research, experimentation, and artistic development

  • Accommodation in an international residency alongside interdisciplinary artists working across diverse practices

  • Sustained development of a durational performance project, with attention to time, rhythm, endurance, and evolving form

  • Expanded understanding of duration as both method and material—explored through embodied practice, writing (as desired), and critical reflection

  • Prompts and tools for working with long-form processes, including strategies for pacing, presence, and composing durational frameworks

  • A personalized mentorship trajectory to elevate your performance quality and ability to sustain long durational forms

  • Help framing your work for funding opportunities

  • An expanded network of international, intergenerational artists working across performance, sound, and live/visual art practices

  • Ongoing 1:1 mentorship with durational performance artist and scholar Dr. Raegan Truax who can mentor you across practice, writing about your work for grants or academic publications, learning histories and performance works that directly relate to your modes of making, and professionalization in sustaining a performance art practice

  • Time to in work deeply on developing a long durational performance

  • Presentation of your work (site-based or in our exhibition space) during the residency

  • Support from our local team of curators and artists as you develop a long durational performance during the residency (you are not required to have a pre-defined project to be accepted to the residency).

  • Introductory hikes and walks to potential outdoor performance sites, including rocky mountains, the Segura River, and citrus orchards that offer time, space, and unique temporal inspiration to your creative growth

  • Access toshared studio space located within Centro Negra, an interdisciplinary art center for making, reflection, and material research

  • Opportunity to participate in an open studio / public sharing with fellow artists in residence

  • Informal dialogue and formal networking opportunities with local and visiting curators working in contemporary performance 

We Look For Artists

  • working with or curious about duration as a core element of practice

  • practice-based researchers exploring water through different mediums and approaches

  • practice-based researchers exploring geologic time or elemental temporalities through different mediums and approaches

  • seeking sustained mentorship and a reflective, process-oriented environment

  • interested in deepening their relationship to live performance and duration

  • who want to push or discover new aspects of their work

Application Process & Timeline

LONG DURAITON is currently accepting artists for 2027

Residencies occur for periods of 1-3 months & start on the 1st of the month

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

1-2 artists are selected for mentorship in January, February and March.

We strongly encourage applying early for the dates you prefer.

Application Review Process

  • Applications for the 2027 program are reviewed by:

    • Raegan Truax — performance artist, Professor of Embodied Praxis

    • Verónica Peña — performance artist, ON DURATION (2022 & 2024)

    • Manuela Méndez — performing and dance artist, ON DURATION (2024) & DEEP TIME (2025)

Travel & Arrival Information

  • Travel and airport transfers are not included in the residency fee.

  • Upon acceptance, artists will receive a welcome packet with detailed arrival instructions, local travel information, and site-specific logistics.

Getting to the Residency

  • LONG DURATION takes place in the Ricote Valley, Murcia, Spain at Centro Negra in Blanca .

  • Nearest airports:

    • Alicante Airport (ALC)

    • Murcia Region International Airport (RMU)

  • Major international airports:

    • Madrid (MAD)

    • Barcelona (BCN)

Accessibility Note

  • The residency takes place in rugged, mountainous terrain.

  • Accommodations, studios, and outdoor working sites require walking up steep, uneven hills and navigating staircases and steps.

Residency + Mentorship + Final Performance Production Costs:

Single Artist in Individual Room in Shared House

  • One Month: €1000

  • Two Months: €1800

  • Three Months: €2400

Single Artist in Individual Apartment

  • One Month: €1300

  • Two Months: €2400

  • Three Months: €3300

  • 2nd artist in same accommodation = additional €200/month

*CBI is a 501c3 non-profit organization. The artist contribution represents 30% of the total cost of participation in the mentored residency program. The remaining 70% is funded through the generous collaboration of the Blanca City Council, the fundraising of CBI’s Board of Directors, and collaborations between CBI and our local partners. Official invitation letters are issued to accepted artists to assist in securing institutional funding or external grants.

**This opportunity is eligible for Erasmus funding with research supervised by Dr. Raegan Truax, Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Grants and many more grants specific to each artist’s country of residence.

Arrival & Departure

  • Artists may access their accommodation after 3:00 pm on the first day of the month in which their residency begins.

  • Artists must vacate their accommodation by 12:00 pm (noon) on the last day of the month of their residency.

  • In the case of a later departure, artists may continue to access shared spaces after check-out.

  • Additional accommodation (1–2 nights) may sometimes be arranged for an extra fee, subject to availability.