Site-Specific takes place in Spain’s Ricote Valley, where the Segura River winds through semi-desert landscapes and pine-covered mountains shaped by centuries of ecological and cultural flux. Sustained by Moorish irrigation systems and seasonal rhythms, the valley holds a striking tension of aridity and abundance, endurance and adaptation.
This interdisciplinary residency welcomes proposals in live art, performance, dance, body-based practices, social and conceptual art, experimental photography, and artistic research. We are especially interested in work engaging the valley’s layered landscape—its histories of migration, agricultural intensity, and ecological entanglement—as both context and collaborator.
A week-long writing retreat for women forty+ to reignite imagination, replenish creative energy, and reconnect with voice. Through sensory-based writing, memory, movement, and place, participants are supported to experiment freely or deepen an existing project within an intimate, mentored community led by acclaimed fiction writer and artist Dr. Helen Paris. *We welcome cis and trans women, as well as non-binary and genderqueer folks to NEXT CHAPTER.
Spain | Rolling deadline.
1-3 month residences take place all year.
Rolling application. Limited spaces each month; applications are read on a rolling basis. Acceptance and waitlist notifications are sent within one week of application. We strongly encourage applying early for your preferred month and residency period.
Next Chapter: Writing Retreat for Women 40+
ON DURATION Summer Residency
Site Specific Interdisciplinary Residency
Current Open Calls
Making Performance Spring Intensive
KAMP
Queer Life/Art Residency
Greece | Island of Lesbos
Application Deadline: May 22 2026
Track 1: Experimental Media & Performativity
July 22 – August 10, 2026
Track 2: Relational & Site-Responsive Work
August 14 – September 2, 2026
Track 3: Body-Based & Durational Practice
September 6 – September 24, 2026
KAMP is a life/art residency for queer artists and writers working with queer ecologies and queer temporalities. Participants are selected into one of three tracks: Experimental Media & Performativity, Relational & Site-Responsive Work, or Body-Based & Durational Practice. Taking place on the island of Lesbos, Greece, the program brings together international artists working across performance, installation, sound, and experimental visual practices within a shared, off-grid environment. Participants live and work collectively in an eco-art village where daily life shapes the ethos of artistic practice.
Garden Lab
for Eco-Creative Futures
Spain | 1-2 month residences take place between 1 July - 30 Sept
Application Deadline: May 2026
Detroit | Creative Body Institute
Application Deadline: May 31 2026
At Creative Body Institute’s Detroit site, the Garden Lab for Eco-Creative Futures hosts a new residency inviting artists working at the intersection of art, ecology, and community. Made possible by Applebaum Family Philanthropy, the program activates the Garden Lab as a living site for research, experimentation with ecological materials, environmental processes, interspecies performance, and site-responsive practice, including artist-led community workshops and public events.
LONG DURATION:
Performance Art Residency
Spain | Rolling deadline.
1-3 month residences take place all year.
Rolling application. Limited spaces each month; applications are read on a rolling basis. Acceptance and waitlist notifications are sent within one week of application. We strongly encourage applying early for your preferred month and residency period.
LONG DURATION is a residency for performance artists 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.
DEEP TIME
Art & Ecology in the Arctic Archipelago
Arctic Norway | 10-day immersive residencies
Cohort 1: November 29–December 8
Cohort 2: December 10–19
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026
An immersive art and ecology experience on a remote Arctic island with no roads, stores, or external distractions. As time stretches and sensory awareness sharpens, the program invites artists across disciplines to engage with geologic rhythms, nonhuman temporalities, and ecological systems, while collaboratively stewarding the island with a small cohort of eight artists committed to cross-disciplinary creative and research collaboration.
An immersive dive into making for theatre, dance, and performance artists seeking a focused opportunity to create without pressure to produce. Through shared practice, mentorship, guided workshops, and collective reflection, participants are invited to experiment, dismantle habits, and reimagine how performance comes into being.
ON DURATION brings together international, intergenerational artists who work with duration in radically different ways. In addition to providing space and time to experiment with and develop long durational works, the summer residency program organized by AADK Spain features workshops and guided durational practices led by performance artist and ON DURATION founder Dr. Raegan Truax.