Languages, Please | UNIDEE Residency Modules, Spring-Summer Seasons 2026
Deadline open call: 15 February 2026

Open call for the modules of the Spring and Summer seasons 2026 of the programme Languages, Please, curated by UNIDEE Visiting Curators Nina Fiocco and Gaia Martino.

Languages, Please is an invitation to a collective series of rehearsals that explores languages as geopolitical spaces of dispute, narratives, and encounters. It is a call to engage with the porosity of our bodies in action and the narratives that can infuse and strengthen our practice of remaining polyphonic, amid the crumbling circumstances of the present. To learn more about the project's context and objectives, please refer to the complete curatorial framework here.

• Module V - Beyond Acoustic Supremacy—Gestural Voice and Transcorporeal Listening 
led by Piersandra Di Matteo
23 – 27 March 2026
This module led by dramaturg, scholar and curator Piersandra Di Matteo, interrogates regimes of aurality shaped by oralism and audism by exceeding cochlear and hearing-centered models of perception. Collective experiments will work as a vibratory, tactile, and affective force across bodies, gestures, spaces, and material environments. 

• Module VI - Interlaced warps from the Andes
led by Elvira Espejo Ayca
13 – 17 April 2026
Elvira Espejo Ayca, artist, poet, and the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, leads a residency from the perspective of Andean epistemologies. Through hands-on work with wool and collective verbal exchange, participants engage in verbal practices—oral narration, collective reading, speaking, and listening—function alongside textile work as modes of transmission, reflection, and collective meaning-making, in dialogue with Biella’s historical relationship to wool and textile production. The workshop is grounded in her text, Uywai - Uywaña. La crianza mutua de las artes.

• Module VII - Spell of Color
led by Cromoactivismo and Marina De Caro
15 – 19 June 2026
For Cromoactivismo, a collective of artists and activists, color is a tool that challenges the sensitive capacity of our bodies and becomes collective by identifying and sharing forms of knowledge that put dominant narratives under tension. During their workshop, Spell of Color, participants in residency will share collectively, building a common working protocol where colors are a metaphor for a perceptible and plural form of knowledge—of sensitive and restless gestures—with the capacity to deconstruct social and hegemonic norms.  

• Module VIII - In crescendo: tools for assembly
led by Francisca Benítez
22 – 26 June 2026
With In crescendo: tools for assembly, Francisca Benítez invites participants in residency to embark on a collective practice of humans and more-than-humans in place. The residency is organized on a crescendo, from no voice to full volume, and from the intentions of one artist to the weaving of an artist collective. Improvisation, somatic listening, and body engagement could be used as strategies of participation. The methodologies the mentor brings come from sign language immersion programs, activist choirs, popular assemblies, and irrigation communities.  

Each module will host up to 12 residents and is open to international participants from all backgrounds, with no restrictions on disciplines, media, or methodologies. Applications from artists, musicians, performers, curators, writers, designers, researchers, and activists are welcome.

To learn more and apply, click here

Deadline for submissions is 15 February 2026, 23:59 (CET).