text laboratory #3

The House of Text in HelsinkiOpens in a new tab, Finland is hosting the working residency program Text Laboratory in 2024–2026 for writers and other artists working with text. The aim of the project is to test and find new ways to bring text-based works and practices into contact with audiences and develop ways of sharing and inhabiting textual spaces together. The third and last Text Lab takes place between 29 December 2025 and 1 February 2026. Applications for Text Lab #3 are now open!

The ideas, demos, try-outs, and pieces of art created in the laboratory will find their audience as part of the Text festival in the last week of the residency. The individual works could take the form of, for example, a performance (duration of 1 to 45 minutes), workshop, installation or talk.

The selected artists are asked to commit to working together throughout the residency period, and two pre-residency days remotely. The remote days will involve an e-meeting with the group and collaboration kick-off on 8 and 9 December 2025 and the Text Lab will take place from 29 December 2025 to 1 February 2026. There will be set times for working together and individually.