OPEN CALL: Onassis AiR 2024/25

Onassis AiR, the Artistic Research, Residency & Fellowship Program invites artists, curators, designers, dance and theater makers, chefs, activists, writers, educators, performers, architects, creative coders, filmmakers, and other practitioners from any discipline, from anywhere in the world to apply for their selected program strand that will take place in Athens, Greece, between September 2024 to July 2025. The total number of Residencies & Fellowships that will be awarded is thirty.

Onassis AiR is dedicated to fostering artistic process by providing space and time to arts professionals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, enabling them to delve deeper into their practice without the pressure of presenting a final work. It operates as a mycelium, an embodied lab that supports artistic experimentation, practices of speculation and non-linear storytelling, peer-to-peer interconnection, and experiential knowledge sharing. Different expressions of this network are presented in various formats and venues throughout the year.

By bringing together creative practitioners from different strands of life and practice through its various programs, Onassis AiR has become a meeting point for cross-disciplinary thinking and exchange of ideas, bringing forward themes that concern us today, always in dialogue with the city we live in and the ever-evolving world around us.

For the season of 2024/25, Onassis AiR expands its reach and opens its doors to a wider community of artists by offering opportunities on three different strands:

The Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies
This is a program of individual artistic residencies, each lasting for up to three months. It is addressed to creative practitioners from all disciplines who are yearning for space, focused time, and stimulating conversations that can help to kick off, further develop, or finalize a project. Onassis AiR offers the tools and a robust support network for each project to thrive and expand across diverse mediums and to explore production possibilities.

The Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships
Onassis AiR invites artists to apply for a three-month Dramaturgy Fellowship for research and development of new performance-based works. We welcome applications from creators and collectives who operate in the expanded field of dramaturgy in theater, dance, music, performance, visual arts, and their hybrid intersections. It is for those who wish to submit their proposals for the development of a new project that comprises an original creation that has never been presented before.

The Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships
These two-month Fellowships inaugurate the Onassis ONX, a global New Media program that aims to explore different aspects of the post-digital world. We welcome projects that emerge at the intersections of culture, technology, and human experience, explore alternative possibilities, question established boundaries, reimagine history, and challenge dominant narratives. We are interested in technology both as a medium and a theme, with a key focus on the ways in which it challenges existing notions of subjectivity, public and private institutions, identity, and the commons. We invite creators to submit proposals that make use of the following media and technologies: artificial intelligence, XR/ VR/ AR and analog immersive experiences, games, spatial computing, hardware sculptures, zombie technologies, and robots.

All accepted participants will receive an artist’s fee, a research budget, housing, travel to/from Athens, a collective budget for group site-visits and research trips, opportunities to engage with the art scene in Athens through networking events, and access to mentoring and audiovisual equipment. Additionally, all program participants are encouraged to engage with the Οnassis AiR Community through an offering, in the form of a workshop, a presentation, a lecture or screening, or any other format they wish to propose.

Onassis AiR was established by the Onassis Foundation in September 2019. Onassis AiR team: Nefeli Myrodia, Sotiria Smyrnaiou, Marina Troupi and Georgia Giannakea.

Applicationn deadline: March 4, 2024, 12pm

Click here to see the full open call announcement and link to the application form.