🇰🇭🇱🇦🇲🇲🇹🇭🇻🇳 Calling Candidates from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, & Vietnam!

This artist residency program invites art practitioners including but not limited to artists, researchers, writers, and creators from other disciplines to join a one-month period of surveying, researching, and creating works around a shared interest in the concepts and processes of myth-making in Trà Vinh, Vietnam.

As a land inhabited by the Khmer, Chinese, and Kinh peoples, Trà Vinh, where the Mekong River meets the sea evokes and awakens thoughts on its diverse cultural landscape. This intermix of cultures and local folk beliefs are woven into the rhythms of everyday life, stories and legends have been passed down and transformed across generations.

📍 Location:Tra Vinh, Vietnam

📅 Program Period:15 October – 15 November 2026

⏰ Application Deadline: 9th August 2026

✅TARGETED APPLICANTS

The residency will select four art practitioners from the Lower Mekong Subregion: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand , Myanmar

The open call welcomes:

-Emerging practitioners (regardless of age) whose practice and interest engage with the intersections of culture, history, and linguistics, and/or explores the nature of linguistic fragmentation, ruptures, and absences.

-Writers with a focus on creative writing, allegorical narratives and critical fabulation.

-Applicants interested in the process of making research-driven, experimental, or community-rooted methodologies.

-Applicants who are able to communicate in English

📅 Program Timeline:

• 7 July – 9 August 2026: Open Call Period
• 19–21 August 2026: Interviews with shortlisted applicants
• 25 August 2026: Announcement of selected residency artists
• 15 October – 15 November 2026: Residency programme in Tra Vinh, Vietnam
• Late December 2026: Showcase at No Cai Bum Festival 2026