Art production residencies

NPK aim is to facilitate the continuous international presence of Eastern European and Balkan artists and to encourage art production in the following directions:

production that critically engages with questions of space, migration, and intersectional identities, whereas geography is not neutral, examining how lived experience, social location, and minoritized perspectives shape space, place, and environment, gendered labor patterns and the spatial organization of work, how zoning, policing, and urban planning reproduce inequalities.

production that engages with feminist and queer theory and art, identity prejudice, social justice, misogyny, binary privilege and gender equality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity, power structures and women’s traditional knowledges (about healing, reproduction, ecology, among others).

artistic research that explores cultural and territorial memory, including practices of remembrance and willful ignorance, heritage and cultural appropriation, social situatedness and the political construction of collective narratives within specific social and historical contexts, alongside counterstorytelling.

projects that investigate relations between ecology, land, water, and cultural landscapes, engaging with temporality, ecofeminist thought, indigenous cosmologies, affective environment and alternative ecological knowledges.

work that addresses epistemic politics and situated knowledges, questioning the neutrality of knowledge, the dominance of Eurocentric epistemologies, and exploring alternative ways of knowing emerging from marginalized perspectives,  such as double understanding and epistemic advantage due to marginal social positions that reveal aspects of reality hidden from dominant perspective.

production that examines contemporary regimes of information, perception, and digital culture, including phenomena such as infinite scroll, cancellation by excess, dislocated knowledge, and perceptual fatigue within late capitalist media environments.

participatory and situation-based artistic practices, where the artist acts as a generator of situations, creating collective encounters, site-specific interventions, and collaborative forms of knowledge production.

projects that critically reflect on power structures such as neoliberalism, biopower, and capitalist enclosures, addressing the control of bodies, land, and knowledge, hoarding neoliberal resources, the push to make people into model consumers, while exploring lived experience, anti-fascism and communal alternatives such as commons of care and collective practices.