Norway | PRAKSIS residency Climate/Coloniality

PRAKSIS, in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN), is calling for applications from local, national and international people with relevant interest and experience to apply for the Climate/Coloniality residency, from 12 August to 11 September 2025, in Oslo, Norway.  

Climate change is indisputably a problem that is largely created by a privileged elite from the Global North, but it disproportionately impacts nations and regions in the South, alongside those in the north who have the least resources to protect themselves from its effects. Climate/Coloniality invites artists to consider sustainability in the context of critical approaches to colonial knowledge, and explore new modes of community-engaged practice on a planet under threat.

The residency may be particularly relevant to cultural (or other) practitioners, performers, critics and researchers seeking to explore questions of artistic practice and environmental change in relation to local knowledge systems and movements. 

The group will collectively plan a residency schedule. The schedule will include daily group meetings and joint activities such as readings, discussions, visits to relevant spaces in Oslo, networking events, communal meals and socialising, alongside unstructured time for independent reflection and research. In the first week, residents will participate in PRAKSIS’s customary ‘Meet the Residents’ event, informally introducing themselves and their practices to the rest of the group and the Oslo arts community.

The residency provides the following: 

• A communal workspace at PRAKSIS, in the centre of Oslo.
• Comfortable shared accommodation.
• A stipend of 10,000 NOK for those who cannot participate otherwise. Limited stipends available, select this option in the application form. 
• Weekly group dinners with invited guests.

Climate/Coloniality application guidelines 

Deadline: 5 January 2025