kamp: queer life/art residency on lesbos island in greece
Creative Body Institute invites queer-identifying artists to Lesbos Island in Greece for KAMP to expand or develop work exploring queer ecologies , queer temporality, and ecofeminist practices. Set within an ecological hermitage, the residency emphasizes human+more than human exploration and a life art ethos where the collective stewarding of our living and creative spaces becomes part of how each participant develops their creative work.
We are seeking artists whose practices engage with, embodiment, interdependence, and temporality through performance, installation, sound, dance, or experimental visual work. Located in an olive grove on the slopes of Mount Lepetymnos, the highest mountain on the island of Lesbos in Greece, our KAMP setting aims to encourage and initiate collaborations that last beyond the residency period.
Artists are invited to apply to one of three tracks:
**Track 1: Experimental Media & Performativity, July 22 – Aug. 10
**Investigate performativity through installation, sound, video, or experimental visual practice, incorporating choreographic or interactive components.
**Track 2: Relational & Site-Responsive Work, Aug. 14 – Sept. 2
**Develop projects emphasizing interaction, co-presence, and exchange between humans, non-human elements, and the environment.
**Track 3: Body-Based & Durational Practice, Sept. 6 – Sept. 24
**Explore corporeality, ritual, duration, and movement in relation to space, time, and other participants.
**Track 4: Writer in Residence, (select dates to coincide with one of the above tracks)
**For those who want to work primarily on writing while in residence. Select this track if your primary focus will be your exegesis, writing for a specific publication, or beginning to write about embodied & artistic research you have already completed. Please apply to the track most aliged with your writing project and make sure to indicate the stage your writing project is at and what kind of mentorship & guidance from CBI faculty, or help from your peers would be most useful to your project.
KAMP is a communal residency with simple cabin-based housing designed for relational living and close proximity between artists. Outdoor kitchen, shower house and bathrooms are all communal.