A discovery guide for Ukraine

“A discovery guide for recovery” – a project co-funded by Creative Europe – has just launched an open call for six international artists (including two Ukrainians) interested in co-designing with Ukrainian communities a “non-touristic” guidebook on the present and future of Ukraine.  Applicants are called to design unconventional tours to discover the Ukrainian region of Bakota, in Western Ukraine, by involving the inhabitants in a process of recovering memories of the past, raising awareness on opportunities and problems of the present, foreseeing possible future scenarios.

Artists will be hosted for a two-week art residency at Bakota Hub, a cultural centre in Horaivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Southwestern of Ukraine), created on the basis of a former abandoned school and used in the two past years as a shelter for internally displaced people. The tours will be printed and published in an international guidebook dedicated to non-tourists, those who do not travel to collect postcards but to discover the authentic spirit of a territory. 

The selected artists will receive a 3.000 EUR grant to produce their tour, two-week hospitality at - and travel to - Bakota Hub (Ukraine), their artwork featured in an international publication, the training on the Non-tourism methodology through a co-design workshop in July in Warsaw, artistic curatorial and tutoring feedback sessions, network and exchange opportunities with other residency artists at Bakota Hub in Ukraine. 

Who can apply

“A discovery guide for Ukraine” call for artists is open to individual artists working with any media and who are citizens or permanent residents of all EU eligible countries (list) including Ukraine. Special attention will be given to artists with previous experience in collaborating with communities.