bodies, machines, publics

Khoj International Artists’ Association invites artists to critically examine and question the shifting entanglements between bodies, technologies, and systems of power for its upcoming residency – BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS.

In its second iteration_, Bodies Machines Publics_ seeks to foreground practices and inquiries that can map the shifting terrain of digital life through critique and the articulation of alternate possibilities. As the digital mediates our perception, memories, and bodies, the boundaries between the organic and the machinic are becoming increasingly porous. Bodies Machines Publics is an inquiry which has emerged from this urgency to understand how evolving technologies transform and reorganize what it means to be human, to inhabit gender, caste and other socio-ecological formations, in the 2020s and beyond, globally.

Can technology, ecology, and society exist in dialogue? In harmony, even?

What can feminist code offer in dismantling the patriarchal foundations of digital space?

As technologies and AI advances, how do surveillance systems extract intimacy from already vulnerable bodies, and what forms of resistance emerge?

In a moment when truth is unstable and realities are increasingly manufactured, what becomes of democracy? How is technology reconfiguring relations between centres and peripheries?

Khoj in collaboration with NAVE (Chile), Immersive Arts Space at ZHdK (Switzerland), and Kornhausforum (Bern), is part of a two-year long, multi-sited research initiative. The project offers artists time and space to develop research-driven practices that probe the entanglements of bodies, machines, and publics, in a ‘glocal’ context.

Artists from Chile, India, Netherlands, and the UK working across mediums, and with technologies are welcome to apply for a fully-funded, seven-week, on-site residency taking place between October and December 2025.