Research & Creation Residency
A residency framework for artists and cultural practitioners developing research-based, site-responsive, and cross-cultural projects.
ELSEHERE’s Research & Creation Residency supports artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, curators, and interdisciplinary practitioners whose work requires time, context, dialogue, and relation to place.
The residency is designed for practices that move between research and making. It welcomes projects shaped by fieldwork, movement, writing, image-making, performance, sound, archival inquiry, cultural memory, translation, public space, material process, and experimental forms of production.
A residency is not only a period away from ordinary life. At its strongest, it is a structure for attention: a temporary condition in which a project can gather language, site, method, documentation, and future direction.
Program Orientation
ELSEHERE approaches residency as both process and infrastructure.
The Research & Creation Residency provides artists with a framework to deepen a project, test a method, engage a site, develop materials, or prepare work for future presentation, publication, exhibition, performance, or public circulation.
The program is especially interested in artists whose practices do not separate thinking from making. Research may happen through the body, the camera, the archive, the studio, the walk, the interview, the ritual, the image, the object, the sound, the text, or the encounter.
The residency supports projects that need time before they become fully visible.
What the Residency Supports
01 Research-Based Practice
Projects grounded in inquiry, fieldwork, archives, interviews, cultural memory, theory, artistic research, or embodied knowledge.
02 Creation & Development
New or ongoing works requiring time for experimentation, composition, writing, rehearsal, editing, spatial study, or material testing.
03 Site-Responsive Work
Projects that develop in relation to a specific place, community, architecture, landscape, history, or public condition.
04 Cross-Cultural Exchange
Practices moving across geographies, languages, cultural systems, migration histories, or transnational artistic contexts.
05 Documentation & Reflection
Projects that require careful documentation, artist writing, process notes, image records, project descriptions, or publication-oriented reflection.
06 Future Circulation
Work preparing for exhibitions, performances, screenings, public programs, publications, grants, fellowships, or further institutional development.
Residency Structure
Each residency edition may differ in location, duration, discipline focus, partner organization, and available resources.
Depending on the specific edition, the residency may include:
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ccessstudio or workspace a
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research and production time
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artist check-ins or advising
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public presentation or open studio
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documentation support
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editorial or publication-oriented reflection
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local context and site engagement
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curatorial or professional feedback
network-building with artists, writers, curators, and cultural partners
Final structure, eligibility, fees, support, and participation terms are announced through each residency’s official open call.
Current Initiative
ELSEHERE x Yasmine Laraqui Studio Residency
Casablanca Research & Production Residency 2026
This residency initiative supports artists developing research-based, process-oriented, and cross-cultural projects in relation to place, production, and artistic inquiry.
Developed through ELSEHERE’s international arts network, the residency creates a temporary structure for artists to work across research, studio process, documentation, and future project development.
Open Call & Artist Applications
The Research & Creation Residency may be appropriate for:
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Artist developing a new or ongoing body of workArtists develop
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Artists working across performance, moving image, installation, sound, writing, research, or hybrid practice
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Artists whose projects require time, site, process, or field-based inquiry
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Artists engaging cultural memory, diaspora, ritual, public space, ecology, translation, or archival materials
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Artists preparing work for future exhibition, performance, publication, residency, grant, fellowship, or institutional presentation
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Artists seeking a focused structure for research, documentation, and creation
This program is not designed as a vacation, retreat package, or guaranteed production opportunity. Each residency is selective and shaped by curatorial fit, program capacity, and the specific conditions of the edition.
Application & Selection
Residency applications are announced through ELSEHERE’s Opportunities section.
Each open call will include its own requirements, timeline, eligibility, materials, and selection criteria. Applicants may be asked to submit a project proposal, artist statement, CV, portfolio, work samples, website, and a brief explanation of how the residency context supports their work.
Selection is based on artistic quality, project relevance, clarity of proposal, fit with the residency context, and available capacity.
Documentation & Future Development
Residency projects may lead to new works, research materials, artist writings, public presentations, process documentation, interviews, publication-oriented reflections, or future collaborations.
ELSEHERE supports the idea that process has public value. A residency can produce more than a finished object: it can produce method, language, relation, documentation, and future direction.
Selected residency artists may be considered for future ELSEHERE programming, editorial features, interviews, public presentations, or publication-related opportunities.
Such opportunities are selective and not guaranteed.
Partnership & Studio Inquiries
ELSEHERE welcomes conversations with studios, cultural spaces, artist-run initiatives, institutions, and international partners interested in developing residency frameworks, research exchanges, or site-responsive artist programs.
For partnership, hosting, sponsorship, or institutional inquiries, please contact:
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Artist Development
ELSEHERE also offers artist development, editorial publication support, and international artist support through a separate Artist Development pathway.
For professional support, publication-based visibility, project representation, and international career documentation, visit Artist Development.
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