AIR: Commons, Chaotic Fluid, Inspiration

The Nature, Art & Habitat Residency: An ECO-Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice is an art program hold in Taleggio Valley (Italy) and Santa Ynez (California) that aims to unfold and display a sensitive culture that responds to nature’s needs and uses nature’s insights as a source of inspiration and as measure of impacts on available resources. The ultimate goal of NAHR is to uncover intimate links between all living organisms in order to support more resilient development where humans and nature can successfully coexist.

The topic for 2023 is AIR. Fellow residents will explore the function, mechanism, importance and state of air from a range of natural, ecological, social, political and ecological perspectives, and reflect on the impacts of air pollution and air quality degradation.

NAHR California Residency is open for applications. NAHR is looking forward to receiving proposals that reflect creative and critical approaches to investigating air as a fluid and global system, and as a critical element which can provide a regenerative lens for the future. Our goal is to chart paths that will transform the actions of the exploitative Anthropocene into a sympoiesis conducive to life - like the air itself. Experimental explorations based on globally relevant concepts, theories or methodologies about interspecies coexistence and post-anthropocentric thinking as their fundamental framework are encouraged. These explorations can be done using a variety of media, and will be shared at the conclusion of NAHR in expressive forms including, but not limited to: dance performances, poetry recitations, promenade theatre presentations, art installations, site-specific activations, and other creative products.

NAHR CA Fall - [2 weeks] in October 2023, starting on a Sunday and concluding on a Saturday. FUNDED ACCOMMODATION. Further information can be found in NAHR website.

Successful applicant will be notified by May 1
Applicant must notify acceptance by May 8