On Duration

Durational and site-specific artistic practices

Images by Eleanor Oakes and Laura Turpín

> Call currently open 

Deadline: 20th April 2026

Residencie period: July, September 2026

ON DURATION is an international artist residency program focused on durational and site-specific practice, conceived and founded by performance artist and academic Dr. Raegan Truax.

The residency provides a space for artistic growth and critical reflection, inviting participants to explore time as material, method, and political stance through their practice. Dominant productive rhythms are questioned, and alternative temporalities are experimented with, understanding durational practice as a tool to challenge and unsettle oppressive systems and structures.

The program emphasizes embodied practice, the body, and performance while encouraging hybridization with other disciplines such as sound, writing, and visual arts. It is open to artists of all disciplines who wish to deepen and expand the durational dimension in their own work, engage responsively with the territory, and resonate with the unique landscapes of the context. An open, curious, and receptive attitude is especially valued, allowing participants to discover new aspects of their work through time, body, environment, and collective experience.

ON DURATION takes place in collaboration with AADK Spain, based in Blanca (Valle de Ricote), a rural site of symbolic and ecological significance. Artists have access to studios at Centro Negra, a building integrated into the landscape, nestled in the heart of a mountain, surrounded by the Segura River and citrus orchards. This environment supports a direct relationship with natural cycles, productive isolation, and heightened bodily listening, conditions key for deep durational investigation.

Within this framework, ON DURATION addresses topics such as bodily materiality, sustainability/resilience, intersections between aesthetics and politics, interspecies ecologies, speculative time, eco-somatics, and site-specific practices.

Participants are encouraged to set aside the clock as an organizing principle for daily life and creative work. Each artist self-manages their temporal investigation during the residency while also participating in a collective framework, which includes weekly practice and method exchanges (learning by doing), feedback sessions, informal communal meals, shared praxis spaces, and optional workshops facilitated by Dr. Truax. The program culminates in the opportunity to participate in a collective public presentation in the form of a live durational performance event.

About the mentor and facilitator

Raegan Truax is an internationally recognized performance artist, specializing in durational practices and site-responsive performance installations. She has taught Performance and Embodied Practices for over a decade and is deeply committed to sharing artistic tools that foster new ways of relating to the body, the environment, and collective experience. In 2020, she founded Creative Body Institute, a platform dedicated to fostering exchanges among artists working with the body and performance from transdisciplinary perspectives.