OPEN CALL for 2026 is closed and the artist have been selected. Thank you to all who applied!

THEME: Practices of resistance, acts of repair

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2026:

E.M. Parry

Li Actuallee

Hanna Hoebeke

Nai Nai

This residency invites participants to explore the interconnected ideas of resistance and repair — not as fixed categories, but as evolving, relational practices that shape how we respond to the world around us.

To resist is often to repair. It is to hold together what threatens to fall apart, to create continuity in the face of disruption. To repair is also to resist — to reject disposability, to value what has been fractured, to insist that restoration is possible even when perfection is not.

These actions are not linear. They do not follow a script. Sometimes they are visible: a reconstruction, a reconfiguration, a deliberate withholding. Other times they are quiet and ongoing — embedded in repetition, maintenance, memory.

We welcome a wide range of interpretations and encourage cross-disciplinary approaches. This residency is not looking for answers, but for engaged, thoughtful exploration — through making, reflecting, and being in process.

Platform is an art organization based in Vasa, a relatively peripheral Finnish town. We run an art space and a residency to offer live experiences of different perspectives in a location where this would otherwise be limited.