Group Residency Programme, Orkney Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS

Group Residency Programme, Orkney Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS Sat 30 Aug – Sat 06 Sept 2025 Application Deadline: APPLY NOW / 1 PLACE AVAILABLE SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS will be lead by Tracy Mackenna (she/her), Artist and Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal and Erasmus Mackenna (they/them), Stage Director, Lighting Designer and Sound Designer and will be facilitated by Tracy and Erasmus. Subject-specific contributions will be delivered by a range of multidisciplinary Orkney-based experts who have in common site-specific, participatory and socially engaged practices revolving around sound and environment. Their diverse skills, expertise and modes of working are activated to investigate lost futures, intersectional histories, ecological and personal landscapes, experimental identities, ruin memory, trauma mapping, site recording, material and immaterial realms, deep time, marginalised communities and hidden lives. FOCAL POINTS Creative practices Interdisciplinarity Technological innovations Synthesis of space, light and sound Readings of alternative theories and texts Co-learning Individual practice Experimentation Semi-structured programme Expert facilitator/s and guest contributors Collective platform for encounters Supportive, caring, non-hierarchical environment Peer and self reflection Fully catered Immersive experience Relationships to land, connections through place Location specific, inc. Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site Imagining futures Publics; participants and audiences AIM The aim of the Group Residency is to develop approaches to place that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place by paying attention to the intersections and collisions between art, culture, materiality, technologies and place. Opportunities are created for creative practitioners and researchers to share and establish a bank of knowledge and creative strategies, both globally interconnected and hyper local, digital and analogue, for imagining new responses to places and the multiple, layered and contested histories they hold.