Spazio13: Urban Bodies Residency 2026 on Migration (Italy)
Four European artists and cultural practitioners are invited to participate in a two-month residency investigating contemporary migration, urban transformation, and the body.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- 2 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- Fully funded residency covering subsistence, accommodation, transport, workspace, technologies, and materials
- Location
- Spazio13, Bari, Italy (Libertà neighbourhood)
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- Oct 1, 2026 → Nov 27, 2026
About
Overview
Urban Bodies is an international artistic residency hosted by Spazio13 in Bari, Italy. The programme will welcome four international artists and cultural practitioners to investigate the relationship between contemporary migration, urban transformation and the body as a site of memory, negotiation and belonging. The residency takes place in the Libertà neighbourhood, one of Bari's most densely populated areas and one of the urban districts with the highest concentration of foreign residents in the city.
Dates
- Residency: 1 October to 27 November 2026
- Application deadline: 30 July 2026
Who can apply
- One profile selected for each field: performance, theatre, dance, movement, sound and embodied practices; visual arts, photography, video, installation, public art and image-based research; material design, spatial practices, ecological design, craft and experimental making; sociology, urban studies, cultural research, participatory research and socially engaged artistic practices
What's covered
The residency will cover subsistence, accommodation, transport related to mobility and programme activities, as well as the spaces, technologies and materials needed to develop the work.
Programme structure
The residency will unfold through four phases: territorial research and community encounter; co-creation and design; artistic production; and public restitution.
- Award
- Fully funded residency covering subsistence, accommodation, transport, workspace, technologies, and materials
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- The residency investigates the relationship between contemporary migration, urban transformation, and the body as a site of memory, negotiation, and belonging, situated in Bari's Libertà neighbourhood.
- Eligibility
- Open to European artists, cultural practitioners, designers, and researchers; one artist selected per disciplinary field.
- Audience
- European artists, researchers, and critics
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