LUUANDA 2022
Applications are now open (until 31 July) for the 3rd edition of LUUANDA Artist Residency.
Produced by Coletivo Pés Descalços, the LUUANDA Artist Residency Programme focuses on the experience of living in contemporary Luanda, through its characters, rhythms, poetry, nostalgia, and drama; and following the imaginary construction so explored in the literature of writers such as Luandino Vieira, Uanhenga Xito, Ondjaki, and others. This post-colonial city is marked by migratory flows and various processes of change; by traffic, lights, and noise; by street vendors who create an important space for the country’s informal economy by displaying everything they sell on a daily basis.
The program is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and aims to support the international mobility of artists born and resident in the PALOP countries, in the areas of visual arts (including image and visual arts) and curatorship.
Downloand the application form here.
LUUANDA 2021
Applications for the 2nd edition of LUUANDA Artist Residency will be open on 19 April 2021.
In this edition, the artists will be challenged to work under the theme “LOST BORDERS”, through a varied program of activities. The theme taken from the work of the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, is inscribed in a globalized fictional universe, the multiplicity of identities originated after the Angolan independence, and the importance of this reflection for the creation of works that are inscribed in a place between the real and the fictional.
Download the application form here
LUUANDA 2019
The applications for the next edition of Luuanda Artistic Residency will be open in mid-2020.
LUUANDA is an artistic residence organized by the Collective Pes Descalços. The project was the winner of the international Open Call launched by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for Performing Art Residencies in Portuguese-speaking African Countries – PALOPS.