Liepāja 2027 is inviting two performance artists from the CreArt Network to participate in the Liepāja AiR residency from 16 June to 17 July 2025. During their stay, the artists will engage in a diverse cultural programme designed to expand their understanding of the city and its surrounding region. The expected outcome of the residency is a community-engaging site-specific performative work. The outcomes of the residency will become part of the ‘Agora of Values’ public programme organised by Liepāja 2027
The ‘Agora of Values’ project is a series of five forums that form the core of the ‘European Dream’ section of the Liepāja 2027 programme.
Eligible applicants include performance artists with experience in public participation and engagement projects, and whose work focuses on the following topics and fields: participatory performance art practices informed by a post-anthropocentric worldview that stresses non-hierarchical immersion of human beings in the environment.
Artist Residency is offered for 2 artists who are: born or currently living in any of the cities that participate in ‘CreArt. Network of Cities for Artistic Creation’: Kaunas (Lithuania), Valladolid (Spain),Skopje (Northern Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Rouen and Clermont-Ferrand (France), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic), Oulu (Finland), Regensburg (Germany); Members of Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU); Ukrainian artists in cooperation with the Lviv Art Council ‘Dialog’.
There is no age restriction, however, applicants must have a university-level degree in an artistic field or demonstrate equivalent expertise through their artistic career.
The Organiser (Liepāja 2027) will provide the following:
- Four-week accommodation for two international artists and studio space (if needed)
- Round-trip ticket expenses to and from Liepāja up to 400 EUR
- Artist fee of 1,600 EUR (Gross amount)
- Production cost in the amount of 800 EUR/gross
