Residency Call Out

Flesh As Witness

On 13 January 2026 by

Stories We’re Not Supposed To Hold

Workshop & Residency Mentored by Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason 15th July – 17th August 2026

Application opens: Friday 30th January

Application closes: Friday 27th February

This open call is for Queer (or queer ally) Global Majority artists based in or from Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. You need to be a practicing artist, dancer, actor, sound artist or video maker but you don’t necessarily need to have live art or performance art as your core practice.

The objective of the project is to provide a mentored residency, with a structured workshop programme with an outcome of a developed participatory performance to present on the 15th of August during Heritage Week.

You will come away with new knowledge around participatory performance presentation and documentation of your work and hopefully develop a new network of transnational colleagues and friends.

The key mentor selected for this project is internationally renowned performance and installation artist Rubiane Maia. Artists selected will also have the opportunity to develop their work through a mentored performance to camera workshop with performer and photographer Manuel Vason.

This structured programme investigates how embodied knowledge transforms through collaborative witness. The residency centres transnational dialogue, creating networks of solidarity while questioning what heritage means within queer Global Majority contexts—whose stories are held, whose bodies carry memory, how performance becomes transmission

‘Coming From The Plants’. 2025. Durational performance. Schloss Moyland Museum, Germany. Photo by Manuel Vason.

If you have any questions please contact us via our contact form

We will be offering places to six artists. There will be two funded positions available for this residency.

There is a requirement to pay €100 per week which goes towards food and facilitation.

This would be for the period of 15th July until 17th August 2026. It may be possible to arrive a little later, up to the 17th July at the very latest, and leave a little later.

“Rubiane, who approached every aspect of her mentorship with care, grace and patience had one on one sessions with each artist. This was to discuss their goals aims, hopes, dreams, queries, or questions they might have had about their practice” Ray VM, who attended ‘Care Share Express – Performance and Workshop’ last year, mentored by Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason.

For more information about our residencies and to download our Access Info Pack, click HERE.

Application opens: Friday 30th January

Application closes: Friday 27th February