Residency Programme 2027
Artists and curators are invited to apply with an ongoing artistic or curatorial research project for a residency period in 2027 focused on tropical onto-epistemologies and engagement with ancestral knowledge systems.
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- Entry fee
- $900
- Location
- Instituto Tropical, CDMX (Mexico City)
- Exhibition window
- Mar 1, 2027 → Mar 31, 2027
About
Overview
Instituto Tropical invites artists and curators from all disciplines to apply with an ongoing artistic or curatorial research project for one of two residency periods in 2027. The programme offers a space to tropicalize that research through situated processes engaging the land, local communities, and 'Ancestral Intelligences'. It offers time for exchange, experimentation, and collective inquiry—fostering encounters with ancient knowledge systems, local arts and craft techniques, scientific knowledge, and eco-social technologies of agriculture within already existing feeding systems.
Residency Focus
- Ancestral practices: Traditional weather and water relational practices (tiemperos y buscadores de agua), ancestral healing practices (Temazcal, Herbs, Curanderismo), and other body-based knowledge
- Local artistic practices/crafts: Natural dyeing (working with local plants and trees for plant-based color extraction); barro (clay work); telar de cintura (waist loom weaving); Cartonería del pueblo (Mexican papier-mâché); Piedra Volcánica (Volcanic Rock hand craft)
- Soil practices/feeding systems: Relationships with endemic plants and species; ancestral and emerging watering technologies; relationship practices with Popocatepetl volcano
Residency Periods
- 1–15 March 2027
- 16–31 March 2027
What's Included
- 10 to 12 days accommodation
- Meals
- Transport to and from CDMX upon arrival/departure
- Two or three meetings with experts
Cost
The residency costs 900€.
- Entry fee
- 900€ includes 10 to 12 days accommodation, meals, transport and meetings with experts
- Theme
- The residency focuses on tropicalizing artistic and curatorial research through situated processes engaging ancestral knowledge systems (traditional weather and water practices, ancestral healing), local artistic practices (natural dyeing, clay work, weaving, papier-mâché), and soil/feeding systems, exploring decolonized perception and tropical onto-epistemologies.
- Eligibility
- Open to artists and curators from all disciplines with an ongoing artistic or curatorial research project
- Audience
- Artists and curators from all disciplines
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