Watershed Artisits Residencies

Type
Residency
Category
Conceptual, Installation, Intervention
Status
Open for Applications
Deadline
October 1, 2025
Application Fee
Free
Host
Watershed
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
With four residencies available, each comes with a structured programme, work space at the Pervasive Media Studio, a network of peers, plus financial, technical and critical support. This is a rare opportunity for people who make artwork with technology, to have time, resources and freedom to get an idea off the ground.
- Track 1: Is a focussed track offering two residencies with a development period between Feb and March 2026.
- Track 2: Is a flexible track offering two residencies with a longer development period between April 2026 and Feb 2027.
When:
At least 11 flexible days between Feb to March 2026 (Track 1), or April 2026 to Feb 2027 (Track 2).
Where:
The Pervasive Media Studio, however, we recognise that how we are able to work together can differ from person to person, so we’ve consciously designed a flexible programme to accommodate in-person and online working.
Theme:
Our theme for our upcoming residencies is If These Walls Could Talk. We're looking for work that explores the stories embedded in the spaces we inhabit—the layers of presence that accumulate in our homes and the places we share. We want to ask questions like these: What secrets do our domestic spaces hold, and how do they shape the rhythms of our daily lives? How can we attune ourselves to the traces of all who have passed through and all who might yet come? And how might we create technologies that honour the idea of place itself—devices that listen to the subtle communications between inhabitants and their environments, that amplify the quiet conversations between past and future happening all around us?
These are just some of the questions that we are asking, we hope you will bring your own.
- Track 1: Is a focussed track offering two residencies with a development period between Feb and March 2026.
- Track 2: Is a flexible track offering two residencies with a longer development period between April 2026 and Feb 2027.
When:
At least 11 flexible days between Feb to March 2026 (Track 1), or April 2026 to Feb 2027 (Track 2).
Where:
The Pervasive Media Studio, however, we recognise that how we are able to work together can differ from person to person, so we’ve consciously designed a flexible programme to accommodate in-person and online working.
Theme:
Our theme for our upcoming residencies is If These Walls Could Talk. We're looking for work that explores the stories embedded in the spaces we inhabit—the layers of presence that accumulate in our homes and the places we share. We want to ask questions like these: What secrets do our domestic spaces hold, and how do they shape the rhythms of our daily lives? How can we attune ourselves to the traces of all who have passed through and all who might yet come? And how might we create technologies that honour the idea of place itself—devices that listen to the subtle communications between inhabitants and their environments, that amplify the quiet conversations between past and future happening all around us?
These are just some of the questions that we are asking, we hope you will bring your own.