The performance-for-film works will be developed and mentored along a three-session digital Artist-in Residences with artist-curators Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage). These digital residencies are a space where the participating artists and mentors work co-creatively. They offer the artists a place for formation, hospitality, confrontation and contamination between artists from different realities and experiences, who meet and exchange practices and ideas, producing new performance-based audiovisual works.

 

The resulting films will be showcased in a public exhibition at the Venice International Performance Art Week in Italy in December 2026, and become part of the online platform PAV Performance Art Video with the aim to generate further revenue for the artists through an ongoing subscription model.

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• This offer is for artists or artist groups based in a country of the Creative Europe programme.*

• Applications must be received by April 15, 2026.

• Commissioned artists or artists group receive 2900.–€ for developing a new, original performance-based film work.

• The commissioning activity takes place as part of the DigiLiveAiR digital artist-in-residence with three online dates between May 1 and October 15, 2026.

• Applications need to be submitted through the online form. Please prepare a short bio, a two-paragraph expression of interest, relevant links to work examples in both performance and film/video, and a description of the proposed work (as PDF, short video or audio file, max. 100 MB).

• Only new performance-for-camera works on the above-mentioned topic will be considered.

• No formal requirements are held on the length and technique of the performance-for-film work, but the work needs to be produced, realized and edited in the months May to October 2026.

• Selected artists are acquainted with the Green Production Guide or Green Film Criteria, aiming to reduce their artistic production’s impact on the environment.

 

DigiLiveAir is co-funded by the European Union, and promotes inclusion, participation, and reflection through performance art in hybrid mode. A project by PAV - Performance Art Video, EntrAxis e.V., Studio Contemporaneo, European Cultural Centre, NURT and Untitled Tbilisi.

 

The Digital Live Artists-in-Residence (DigiLiveAiR) project promotes inclusion, diversity, and participation through performance art and Live art based on international co-creation processes. It focuses on innovation by introducing new models of hybrid artistic residencies and transferring methodologies that foster inclusive, sustainable, and digitally enabled performance practices. (AiR) programs, encompassing both digital (online) and in-person attendance. The project is designed to strengthen the capacity for innovation in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors (CCS).  Co-creative activities are an integral part of artistic experiences in the performance and live arts, as audiences engage in cognitive and imaginary practices to make sense of their cultural products and experiences. Particularly problematic is that working opportunities in the performing arts sector are often temporary and financially precarious. DigiLiveAir has been conceived by a consortium of partner associations from Germany, Georgia, Italy, the Netherlands, and Ukraine to respond to this emergency and create new income prospects for emerging European performance and Live art artists.

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* Countries participating in the Creative Europe program 2026 are: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,  Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine.