"Dealing in Distance" is a collaborative approach inviting Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora artists and their works to learn, unlearn, and relearn about the praxis of diasporic and migration in Germany, especially in the Southeast Asian context.
The Mini-Festival will showcase the results and processes of the three residences as well as present another five existing artistic contributions relating to the theme of Diaspora and “Dealing in Distance” through this open call. Goethe-Institut invites Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora artists, curators, and cultural practitioners based in Germany or Southeast Asia to apply with their contribution for the mini festival. This open call aims at submissions of existing artistic contributions that deal explicitly with the topic of the Southeast Asian diaspora in Germany. Innovative approaches, artistic merit, adherence to the theme, and originality are important criteria for selection in addition to overall presentation and implementation feasibility and complexity.
We particularly welcome an engagement with contemporary practices that refer to symbolic elements of the culture of origin and organically connect to the question of identity in distance.
