Studio 88 Artist Residency is now accepting applications for StoryScapes 2026, Stories That Carry Worlds, a themed residency dedicated to storytelling as a living cultural force — a way of carrying memory, transmitting knowledge, questioning inherited beliefs, and imagining new futures. Residency Period: 6 September – 31 October 2026 (3–8 weeks). Application Deadline: 15 July 2026.
In every culture, stories have always done more than entertain. They preserve languages, encode moral systems, transmit philosophies, shape identities, and hold together communities across generations. Stories teach us how to live, what to value, what to fear, and what to hope for. They survive migrations, political change, conflict, and technological shifts. Sometimes they protect memory. Sometimes they challenge power. Sometimes they become acts of resistance.
StoryScapes 2026 invites artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, illustrators, poets, researchers, oral historians, translators, interdisciplinary practitioners, game designers, and cultural workers whose practices engage with storytelling in all its forms.
Apply now for StoryScapes 2026
This year’s edition places particular emphasis on stories as carriers of culture and human knowledge. We are interested in projects and practices that explore questions such as:
- How are stories passed from one generation to another?
- What cultural knowledge disappears when languages, rituals, or oral traditions fade?
- How do myths, folklore, family histories, and personal narratives shape societies?
- What happens when stories travel across borders, technologies, and mediums?
- Can storytelling become a bridge between tradition and contemporary life?
- How do stories influence ethics, philosophy, spirituality, and collective memory?
- Which voices, histories, and ways of knowing remain unheard or overlooked?
We welcome fiction and non-fiction, traditional and experimental approaches, intimate personal narratives and broader cultural inquiries. Projects may take literary, visual, performative, cinematic, digital, participatory, research-based, or hybrid forms. We are also interested in emerging and interactive forms of storytelling, including improvised theatre, collaborative storytelling practices, roleplaying and storytelling games, live narrative experiences, and participatory formats that invite audiences into the act of shaping stories themselves.
Rather than focusing only on finished outcomes, StoryScapes values reflection, exchange, experimentation, and dialogue. The residency is intended as a space for artists and thinkers to slow down, deepen their research, encounter new perspectives, and consider storytelling not simply as content, but as a human practice that shapes how societies understand themselves.
Set within the quieter landscape of Doi Saket in northern Thailand, StoryScapes 2026 offers residents time and space to develop their work while engaging with an international community of creative practitioners.
- Accommodation and private workspace in a garden setting
- Opportunities for dialogue and exchange with fellow residents
- Curated introductions, studio visits, and local cultural encounters
- Open studio, artist talks, collaborative sessions, or informal sharing opportunities
- Research support and networking possibilities
- Time for independent exploration and development
Who should apply:
- Writers and storytellers
- Visual artists and illustrators
- Filmmakers and documentarians
- Graphic novelists and comic artists
- Poets and spoken-word practitioners
- Performers and improvisational theatre practitioners
- Game designers and creators of interactive narrative experiences
- Oral historians, researchers, and archivists
- Artists working with community narratives, memory, folklore, language, or cultural heritage
- Creative practitioners interested in storytelling as social, philosophical, or cultural inquiry
How to Apply
Applicants should submit the following documents via an online form:
- CV or portfolio
- Short biography
- A proposal outlining your practice, project, or research interest for the residency
- Examples of previous work or supporting materials
For residency information and updates, visit Studio 88 Artist Residency
StoryScapes 2026 continues Studio 88’s ongoing exploration of storytelling as a force that connects people across cultures, generations, and disciplines — reminding us that stories are not only things we tell, but worlds we inherit, reshape, and pass on. (studio88artistresidency.com)
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