The Finnish Institute in London is organising four residency programmes in the UK and Ireland in collaboration with Frame Visual Art Finland and HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme. The residencies are based in White Building (Space) in London, Wysing Art Centre in Cambridge, Lighthouse in Brighton and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios in Dublin.

FRAME_SPACE
The White Building, London

FRAME_SPACE residency programme offers a three-month residency (October 1 – December 31). The residency takes place at The White Building, London’s centre for art, technology and sustainability. Run by SPACE, The White Building serves as a lab for artists and creatives whose work critically engages with technology. The residency is organised in collaboration with Frame Visual Art Finland.

FRAME_SPACE residency programme’s 2015 open call The Modelling Affect welcomes applications from artists who use the device of digital affect in their work as a medium and a subject of interrogation. The residency seeks to examine the significance of affect and digital emotional capital as a connective force in the contemporary cultural landscape. This residency and SPACE’s associated public programme seeks to reveal the density and volatility of affect production and transmission in networked artistic practice and beyond.

The residency offers the artists travel, accommodation and a shared studio space, and also includes a working grant and production budget.

More information here

The Multiverse
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

The Multiverse residency offers a two-month residency (November 9 – December 20) at Wysing Arts Centre. Wysing Art Centre in Bourn, near Cambridge, includes a gallery, education and new media facilities, artists' studios, project spaces and a 17th century farmhouse. The residency is organised in collaboration with Frame Visual Art Finland.

The over-arching theme of Wysing’s 2015 programme is The Multiverse, a theory that proposes the potential for a set of multiple universes, which together comprise everything that exists. Artists working within a range of interests and disciplines including music, writing, biography, performance, sculpture, nanotechnology and natural history will work together in-residence, taking the theme of The Multiverse as a starting point for their artistic research.

The residency offers the artists travel, accommodation and a shared studio space, and also includes a working grant and production budget.

More information here

Deadline for the applications is 31 March 2015.

Lighthouse
Brighton

Lighthouse residency programme offers a three-month residency in Brighton (September-November, 2015). Lighthouse is a contemporary culture organisation that connects and shares new works of art, film, music, design and other new forms of creativity, that explore the social, cultural, political, environmental and economical effects of new technologies. The residency is organised in collaboration with HIAP.

For this residency Lighthouse is looking for an artist who explores, challenges and shapes today’s connected world in new, critical and personal ways.

Lighthouse offers a working space for the artist and an opportunity to present his/her practise as part of Lighthouse's programme of public events, such as screenings, performances or installations. The residency includes a budget for travel, living and accommodation, materials and other direct production costs.

More information here

The deadline for the applications is 31 March 2015.

Helsinki-Dublin Residency Exchange

Helsinki-Dublin Residency Exchange offers a two-month residency at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (July–August, 2015). TBG+S is a contemporary art gallery and artists' studios complex located in Dublin city centre and the Temple Bar cultural quarter housing thirty artists' studios for professional visual artists working in a variety of media. The residency is organised in collaboration with HIAP.

TBG+S offers a studio space for the artist and an opportunity to present his/her practice in the framework of TBG+S' programme of public events, such as studio presentations, talks, screenings or mini exhibitions in the studio space. The budget includes costs for travel, living and accommodation and a budget for materials and other direct production costs.

The residency partnership between The Finnish Institute in London, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios began in 2007, and TBG+S and HIAP have supported a total of 13 artists and curators from Ireland and Finland to undertake new creative work in the cities of Dublin and Helsinki.

More information about the applications here

The deadline for the applications is 31 March 2015.