Mustarinda Residency Open cal

Open call for multidisciplinary residencies in Mustarinda for spring 2025

RESEARCHERS, ARTISTS, WRITERS, CURATORS, THINKERS (INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS)

Available residency periods:

SPRING:

2 weeks from 16th January – 31st January 2025

1 month periods: February – April

PRICE LIST

Studios and Rooms:

Studio 2: 44 m2 workspace + bedroom 410 € / month (225 € / two weeks)

Studio 3: 14 m2 workspace + bedroom 350 € / month (195 € / two weeks)

Studio 4: 10 m2 workspace + bedroom 330 € / month (180 € / two weeks)

Studio 5: 70 m2 workspace + bedroom 450 € / month (available only in March and April)

Writers room: 12–16 m2 bedroom 280 € / month (150 € / 2 weeks)

(can be used also for residency guests who do not need a separate studio)

Extra person in the same room +150 € / month.

Application deadline: 30th September 2024

We will inform all applicants about the selections in the first week of November 2024.

The Open Call welcomes all manner of practices, mediums, practitioners, and projects. The Call is not thematic but built around the aspirations of Mustarinda. The Mustarinda Association (est. 2009) is a community at the center of which lies contemporary art, boundary-crossing research, experimentations of practice and theory, communication, education, and events. In addition to our residency program, the Mustarinda Association is both leading and involved in a number of projects, collaborations, and long-term goals that continue to shape the Mustarinda organism.

Mustarinda in 2025

The multitude of ongoing ecological crises influence the lives of all communities, whether they are human or more-than-human. Strengthening communities and their social cohesion is essential when adjusting to the rapidly changing climate and the environments in which we live. Mustarinda seeks ways to ensure that we are all kept afloat together through the ecological transition whilst also building paths towards a post-fossil future.

In 2025 Mustarinda continues its determined efforts towards cultural shifts and the ecological transition through community-based work as well as politically engaged projects. With the Art National Park initiative Mustarinda commits its time, knowledge, and efforts towards the wellbeing and protection of the forest in Vaara-Kainuu area.

The activities of Mustarinda range from the ongoing work with local communities in our Sinipyrstö-project, to the development of the cultural vitality of the Northern region. Sinipyrstö is funded partially by EU grant initiatives whilst the regional work receives resources from the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture program.

This open call is for residents who find inspiration, interest, commonality, or solidarity in Mustarinda’s objectives of building stronger, more resilient communities and ecosocial wellbeing, highlighting environmental values, and protecting nature as well as the region’s unique ecosystem.

We welcome you to think along with us during your residency and beyond. Should you wish to do so, the residency also offers an opportunity to join in exploring all the different dimensions of the multi-disciplinary Art National Park (ANP) initiative. However, this is not a brief for a thematic residency, and joining the shaping of the ANP concept does not need to be part of your work plan and/or the resonances with ANP can emerge in organic ways. Your individual or collective practice is valued in its own right, and we do not wish to limit your application through highlighting the ANP initiative.

HOW TO APPLY:

For individual applications please fill in this form.

For group applications please fill in this form.

Please send your supporting material (portfolio / C.V., as they apply to your practice) combined as a single pdf to:

info@mustarinda.fi

Use the following format to label your files: “2025LASTNAMEPORTFOLIO.pdf / “2025LASTNAMECV.pdf” (Max.15mb). Only attachments that are named correctly will be considered in the application process.