Open Call

Residency

       Ways of Repair :  Loss and Damage will invite three artists and/or curators, (applying as individuals or as collectives) working within any medium to undertake new or existing artistic research projects engaging with loss and damage. Throughout the year-long program, the selected artists and/or curators will be supported in their engagement with the issue of loss and damage and encouraged to spend time exploring and developing their artistic and/or curatorial practice in dialogue with other like-minded cultural practitioners as well as a global community of climate change researchers, policymakers, advocates, activists, and negotiators, working on Loss and Damage — the policies and plans developed to address loss and damage.

Each selected participant or collective will receive a stipend of £10,000 (approximately $12600).


Deadline: Now closed!

Interview dates:  30th November - 1st December 2023

Selected artists announced: by the 9th of December 2023 during UNFCCC COP28

Proposals

        Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is especially interested in artistic research proposals exploring the intangible loss and damage that the climate crisis is causing to culture and heritage, identity and health (physical, mental, and spiritual), as well as reparative acts, modes of healing, community building and kinship-making, that emerge in response to the need to address loss and damage.

Some ways in which artists might engage with Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage include: documenting lived experiences of loss and damage in tangible, experiential and empathetic ways; responding to specific instances of loss and damage, through practices of healing, restoration, reconstruction; participatory approaches to Loss and Damage advocacy/activism; exploring the ethical and/or philosophical questions at the heart of the Loss and Damage discourse, or by challenging the Loss and Damage framing itself, and exploring its relationship to the injustice and inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis.

Applications from practitioners representing the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) —those at the forefront of intersectional experiences of the climate crisis in the global South and North— are particularly welcome.


Participation


       Taking place between January 2024 and January 2025, the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage public online program will feature four key moments (three workshops and a symposium) aimed at fostering dialogue between the selected artists and/or curators and Loss and Damage researchers from around the world.  

Throughout Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage the selected artists and/or curators will be expected to participate in these key moments but without the pressure of producing a final research outcome. Instead, they will be invited to contribute a digital restitution of their experience to be shared on the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage website and presented during UNFCCC COP 29  (TBC) and/or the symposium. The research residency will be conducted online and include moments of exchange between the facilitators and selected artists and/or curators as a cohort, mentoring sessions, as well as networking and research and development opportunities tailored to their research focus.

Open Call

Residency

       Ways of Repair :  Loss and Damage will invite three artists and/or curators, (applying as individuals or as collectives) working within any medium to undertake new or existing artistic research projects engaging with loss and damage. Throughout the year-long program, the selected artists and/or curators will be supported in their engagement with the issue of loss and damage and encouraged to spend time exploring and developing their artistic and/or curatorial practice in dialogue with other like-minded cultural practitioners as well as a global community of climate change researchers, policymakers, advocates, activists, and negotiators, working on Loss and Damage — the policies and plans developed to address loss and damage.

Each selected participant or collective will receive a stipend of £10,000 (approximately $12600).


Deadline: Now closed!

Interview dates:  30th November - 1st December 2023

Selected artists announced: by the 9th of December 2023 during UNFCCC COP28

Participation

      Taking place between January 2024 and January 2025, the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage public online program will feature four key moments (three workshops and a symposium) aimed at fostering dialogue between the selected artists and/or curators and Loss and Damage researchers from around the world.  

Throughout Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage the selected artists and/or curators will be expected to participate in these key moments but without the pressure of producing a final research outcome. Instead, they will be invited to contribute a digital restitution of their experience to be shared on the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage website and presented during UNFCCC COP 29 (TBC) and/or the symposium. The research residency will be conducted online and include moments of exchange between the facilitators and selected artists and/or curators as a cohort, mentoring sessions, as well as networking and research and development opportunities tailored to their research focus.
      

Proposals

         Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is especially interested in artistic research proposals exploring the intangible loss and damage that the climate crisis is causing to culture and heritage, identity and health (physical, mental, and spiritual), as well as reparative acts, modes of healing, community building and kinship-making, that emerge in response to the need to address loss and damage.

Some ways in which artists might engage with Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage include: documenting lived experiences of loss and damage in tangible, experiential and empathetic ways; responding to specific instances of loss and damage, through practices of healing, restoration, reconstruction; participatory approaches to Loss and Damage advocacy and/or activism; exploring the ethical and/or philosophical questions at the heart of the Loss and Damage discourse, or by challenging the Loss and Damage framing itself, and exploring its relationship to the injustice and inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis.

Applications from practitioners representing the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) —those at the forefront of intersectional experiences of the climate crisis in the global South and North— are particularly welcome.

Deadline

       Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage seeks three artists and/or curators, (applying as individuals or as collectives) working within any medium to undertake new or ongoing artistic research projects engaging with loss and damage. Each selected participant or collective will receive a stipend of USD $12600 / £10,000. 

Participation

       Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage are especially interested in artist research proposals exploring the intangible loss and damage that the climate crisis is causing to culture and heritage, identity and health (physical, mental, spiritual), as well as reparative acts, modes of healing, community building and kinship-making, that emerge in response to the need to address loss and damage. 

Some ways in which artists might engage with Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage may include documenting lived experiences of loss and damage, in tangible, experiential and empathetic ways; responding to specific instances of loss and damage, through practices of healing, restoration, reconstruction;  or participatory approaches to Loss and Damage advocacy/activism; exploring the ethical and / or philosophical questions intrinsic to Loss and Damage discourse, or by challenging the Loss and Damage framing itself, and exploring its relationship to the injustice and inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis.

Jury

       Before applying we strongly recommend downloading and reading the .PDF version of the open call here.

Application

Date: 12th of November 2023
Time: 23:59 GMT
Interview dates:  30th November - 1st December 2023
Selected artists announced: by the 9th of December 2023 during UNFCCC COP28

Residency

         Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage particularly welcomes applications from practitioners representing the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) — those at the forefront of intersectional experiences of the climate crisis in the global South and North. The residency and the programme of events will take place online. 

Proposals

        The members of the Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage jury are to be selected for their expertise in the fields of art and culture, literature, political, social, and environmental sciences and gender studies. Jury members will be announced soon.

Information

How to Apply: To apply for Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage please fill in the form here.

Privacy and GDPR: By submitting the above form you acknowledge our Privacy Policy.     

Contact: For any problems relating to the form above and/or questions not answered by the .PDF please email: info[@]actsofrepair.com
Deadline

Date: 12th of November 2023
Time: 23:59 GMT
Interview dates:  30th of November - 1st December 2023
Selected artists will be announced during UNFCCC COP28 by the 9th of December 2023

The Residency

Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage seeks three artists and/or curators, (applying as individuals or as collectives) working within any medium to undertake new or ongoing artistic research projects engaging with loss and damage. Each selected participant or collective will receive a stipend of USD $12600 / £10,000. 

Participation

Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage
particularly welcomes applications from practitioners representing the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) — those at the forefront of intersectional experiences of the climate crisis in the global South and North. The residency and the programme of events will take place online. 

Suggestions for Proposals and Responses

Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage
are especially interested in artist research proposals exploring the intangible loss and damage that the climate crisis is causing to culture and heritage, identity and health (physical, mental, spiritual), as well as reparative acts, modes of healing, community building and kinship-making, that emerge in response to the need to address loss and damage. Some ways in which artists might engage with
Acts of Repair: Loss and Damage may include documenting lived experiences of loss and damage, in tangible, experiential and empathetic ways; responding to specific instances of loss and damage, through practices of healing, restoration, reconstruction;  or participatory approaches to Loss and Damage advocacy/activism; exploring the ethical and / or philosophical questions intrinsic to Loss and Damage discourse, or by challenging the Loss and Damage framing itself, and exploring its relationship to the injustice and inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis.

Jury

The members of the jury for the award are to be selected for their expertise in the fields of art and culture, literature, political and social science and environmental sciences and gender studies. Jury members will be announced at a latter date.

Further Information

Before applying we strongly recommend downloading and reading the .PDF version of the open call here.

Application Form

To Apply please fill in the form here.

Privacy and GDPR

By submitting the above form you acknowledge our Privacy Policy.
Contact

For any problems relating to the form above and/or questions not answered by the .PDF please email: info@actsofrepair.com

Judges

Sakshi Aravind
Sakshi is a lawyer and writer whose research areas include comparative environmental law, constitutional law, Marxist legal theory and political economy, sovereignties, and jurisprudence. Sakshi's research is transdisciplinary with a deep situatedness in law. Sakshi is currently working on her new project, Plural Sovereignties and the Emergence of New Legalities and is a Lecturer in Law and Social Justice at the Newcastle Law School in the United Kingdom.
Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat
Hannah is a Swiss-American curator and a lawyer with 20 years of experience working with the United Nations, States, and non-governmental organisations on operational and policy issues related to humanitarian affairs and the protection of displaced people in conflict and disaster situations. Hannah is the co-founder and curator of DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys, director of the Swiss art association La Fruitière.
Thandi Loewenson
Thandi (b.1989, Harare, Zimbabwe) is an architectural designer/researcher who mobilises design, fiction and performance to stoke embers of emancipatory political thought and fires of collective action, and to feel for the contours of other, possible worlds. Thandi is a Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom, and co-foundress of the architectural collective BREAK//LINE – an ‘act of creative solidarity’ which ‘resists definition with intent’.
Nestor Pestana
Nestor is a Venezuelan-Portuguese multimedia artist, digital designer and educator focusing on the necessity for critical engagement on the possibilities of emerging technologies and their potential societal and environmental impacts, who often works in collaboration with scientists and technologists. Nestor is a tutor and researcher at the Royal College of Art and at University College London, in London, United Kingdom.
Sarker Protick
Sarker is an artist and educator working with photography, video and sound that is built on long-term surveys rooted in Bangladesh. Sarker teaches at the South Asian Media Institute – Pathshala in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is a co-curator of Chobi Mela —the longest running International Photography Festival in Asia— and is represented by Shrine Empire in Delhi, India.

Longlist

      We are pleased to announce the long list for the Ways of Repair :  Loss and Damage open call. We were blown away by the response to the call, which has seen us receive a whopping 740+ applications. Longlisting to just 34 has been a huge challenge with so many important loss and damage issues covered in so many excellent proposals.

Longlisted applicants include :

Abdessamad El Montassir

Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado

Colectivo Micelio

Bill Balaskas

Bola Chinelo

Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, & Yungdrung Tsewang Gurung

Dennis Dizon

Dhaqan Collective

Elizabeth Cox

Emily Sarsam

Ethel-Ruth Tawe

Gabriela de Matos

Gloria Pavita

Hamza Ali

Ignacio Acosta, Liz-Marie Nilsen, May-Britt Öhman & Gun Aira

James Notin

Jorge Vega Matos & Sarah Kantrowitz

Justice Nnanna

Karolina Breguła

Lakshmi Nivas Collective

Maeve Brennan

Mar Mordente

Nombuso Mathibela & Sibonelo Gumede

Oluwatobiloba Ajayi

Sabba Khan & Amneet Johal

কে বা কাহারা (Ke-ba-kahara)

Santiago Reyes Villaveces & Daniel Villegas Vélez

Sharbendu De

The Forest Curriculum

Vishal Kumaraswamy

Wilhelmina Welsch & Judha Su

Yemoh Odoi (Yemoh777s)

Yvan King “Mvfasta” Mukunzi & Nelly Tunga Ashimwe (NERIWEST)

Zahra Malkani

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