Who can apply
This Open Call is aimed at artists, designers, researchers or collectives, to use one of the AIL spaces as a workplace for
artistic work or experimental formats and are interested in presenting their insights and practice to the public.
Please note: The Open Call is addressed only to Alumni, who are currently NOT affiliated with the Angewandte
via a Phd, teaching position or employment.
About the programme
The AIL Residency Program
2027 focuses on the main topic of knowledge production. In the application one or both of the key areas below should be addressed
within the proposed project:1) Ecologies of knowledge or collective ways of knowing:
This strand focuses on knowledge as a relational and ecological process rather than an individual or isolated act
of cognition. It highlights interdisciplinary, collaborative, and distributed forms of knowledge production, emphasizing collective,
networked, and processual modes of thinking and making.
This includes para-academic practices
as well as locally embedded or “endemic” epistemologies, which emerge from specific cultural, social, and material contexts.
The emphasis lies on alternative knowledge ecologies that challenge dominant institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
In that sense we welcome collective or collaborative working practices, which approache a chosen topic via new forms
of knowledge production. Maybe you are looking for a space to test out workshop formats, collective research-methods or other
forms of experimental knowledge production. Projects are encouraged to consider how knowledge can be communicated beyond institutional
settings and contribute to public-facing exchange and dialogue with non-academic contexts.
2) Questions of knowledge production:
We are welcoming research
projects that focus on the topic of critical knowledge production itself: How is knowledge created, shared, challenged, legitimized
or contested?
This strand engages with issues of epistemic justice and injustice, including
questions of who is recognized as a legitimate “knower” within dominant knowledge systems. It also critically examines the
power dynamics embedded in epistemic infrastructures, such as processes of canon formation, archival practices, and mechanisms
of visibility and invisibility.
In addition, it addresses non-discursive
and more-than-textual forms of knowledge production, including embodied, situated, and affective epistemologies that exceed
conventional academic frameworks. Residency timeslots:
Residency #1:
8 Feb–8 Mar 2027
(dates can be slightly
adapted if necessary)
Residency #2:
15
Mar–16 Apr 2027
Applicants will be informed in October 2026.
