Dedicated to up to 9 artists whose work challenges dominant worldviews by reexamining history and envisioning alternate futures.
Moving Narratives
Moving Narratives re-examines legacies of the past, defies euro-centric social and historical discourses, centres the perspectives of marginalised communities, and forges connections between contemporary emancipatory movements and their historical roots.
Fellows receive €10,000 to invest in the further growth of their practice, engaging their communities and harnessing the power of culture to challenge and transform.
As part of our ongoing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning process, we regularly check in with Fellows and mentors, using flexible methods to assess outcomes, learn from experience, and improve our approach. Our aim is to evaluate our methods, not the individuals we support.
Below you can read the Cycle 1 impact report of Moving Narratives: revealing that the programme’s greatest value lay in fostering lasting artistic connections, collaboration, and growth through mentorship, peer exchange, financial support, and Lab Weeks.
Our Moving Narratives Fellows hail from all across the world and work across a kaleidoscope of disciplines, such as (fiction) writing, curatorial practices, performance art, visual arts, film, sound art, and archival research.
Each Cycle of Moving Narratives concludes with a joint collective publication, showcasing the participants’ shared reflections and work.
The programme begins with an introductory session where participants present themselves and the work they will develop. It continues with online “chapters” co-curated by Senior Fellows featuring workshops, guest talks, reading groups, one in-person meeting, and one-on-one sessions dedicated to the each participants’ practices and goals. The programme ends with a collaborative project.
The programme is a collective moment to experiment, exchange, and develop artistic strategies that address dominant narratives and the inequalities they perpetuate.
Moving Narratives cohorts tackle locally rooted issues while speaking to the global challenges humanity is facing, whether through challenging authoritarianism and fascism, articulating issues around the patriarchy and capitalism, or reexamining history and collective memory.
We welcome applications from individuals who have ±7-15 years of relevant professional experience and whose individual practice relates to visual art, curation, writing, music, performance, design, architecture, and more. Individuals who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers, or others, without an individual artistic practice, do not fall under this category, and as such are not eligible to apply.
We encourage applications from artists working from their lived experiences and own communities, and we prioritise practices that focus on intersectional and locally-rooted perspectives.
Eligible applicants must be from, live, and work in our eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
You can always reach out to Mohamad Dib, our Programmes Manager.
