Short Description
“SubScena for Theater, Performing Arts and Other Hybrids” is a non-profit project implemented in partnership by the Autonomous Cultural Center Attack and the Cirkorama association within AKC Medika, with the aim of affirming and connecting avant-garde and experimental performing artists from Croatia, the region and the world, regardless of the genre, style and period to which they belong. SubScena encourages every artistically justified, radical or subtle process of creating a performance and develops and promotes experimental strategies for attracting new audiences and establishing a contemporary artistic discourse.
SubScena for theater, performance, and hybrid art is dedicated to supporting original performance, dance, circus and theatrical styles. SubScena connects and develops diverse practices of avant-garde artists and art collectives, via introducing and developing independent, original and stimulating art in the project’s alternative framework. SubScena’s year-round programme is based on local, regional and international art productions and coproductions, guest performances & residencies. We welcome any and all experimental theatrical practices – disobedient and intimate; nonprofit and sustainable; subversive and independent.
SubScena is specifically oriented towards supporting creative endeavours of emerging performance groups and artists aiming to overcome geographical, national, religious, gender and ethnic qualifications in their national or international collaborations and productions. By providing a safe production, collaboration and presentation space for residents and visiting artists, the program aims to empower the independent DIY and underground performance scene in Croatia and beyond, and to support artistic research and the creation of new performance modes and open discussions enabling an active public insight.
This residency and/or performance opportunity is open to performance artists innovating their work via avant-garde and experimental practices, creating a theater which is both disobedient and personal, experimental and stimulating, non-profit but sustainable, subversive and independent. Following the applications period, the selected artists/groups will be informed on the selection by the end of November 2025, resulting in the production plan application to cultural funding for programmes to be realized in 2026. (via which the program funds are acquired and distributed).
How to Apply
Application form for performances
Application form for residencies
Program Benefits & Awards
– accommodation in AKC Medika
– co-financing of travel costs up to €200 per artist, and up to €500 for groups
– lighting designer and technician
– sound designer and technician
– external eye during the residency
– public presentation
– rehearsal and performance spaces
– technical education
– Photos and video from the public presentation
– promotion through social networks, mailing lists, posters, portals
Entry Fee
None
Location
Croatia
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 20 August 2025
Website Link: https://attack.hr/subscena-otvoreni-poziv-open-call-2026/
