CELLMATES RESIDENCY is a development platform that provides an opportunity for exchange. IN | ARI connects two applicants based on an exciting potential in their practices - what they can share, challenge, or transform together. The residency is a space for artists to share how they make, why they make, offer peer-to-peer experimentation + feedback, share research + resources, and create together.

This opportunity is suited to artists looking to expand the boundaries of their current practice and those interested in collaborative approaches to making (and the infinite ways this can look). 

Both participating artists will present a public outcome together at the end of the residency. This could look like an exhibition, artist talk, screening, activation, listening party, or whatever best serves the residency. Outcome to be agreed upon in consultation with IN | ARI directors.

Contemporary artists working across all art forms are eligible. Artists that are local and First Nations are strongly encouraged to apply.

WHAT COULD IT LOOK LIKE?
The ways you collaborate and to what degree are entirely up to you.You can make a plan together or you can feel it out as you go. It’s all self-directed and doesn’t have to look a certain way.

Sometimes artists create an entirely new body of work together, sometimes they find mutual interests and create work side-by-side responding to the same conceptual anchors, sometimes they share practice + influences and let their work simply respond to the stimulus. But it’s up to you.