Kintai.Kitaip / Open call

Open Call : On Sonic Agency

Kintai Arts & Music Information Center Lithuania (Lithuania) in collaboration with ASTE (Latvia) and MoKS (Estonia) announces an open call for sound artists from the Baltic states or based in the Baltics to apply for a two-week residency in Kintai, Lithuania, taking place on 8–23 June, 2026. The residency programme is held in Kintai, a small town located on the shore of the Curonian Lagoon in western Lithuania. With a focus on site-specific sonic research, we host three artists each year to create performable sound pieces, while collectively reflecting and exchanging ideas around how sound practices can embody a space for dialogue and new forms of social and critical thinking. 

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Inspired by Brandon LaBelle’s notion of the “sonic agent”, this year’s residency theme explores how sound practice - as a situation of public address (P.A), a momentum of listening and being heard - can generate ways of expressing positionality, criticality, and reflections, as well as metaphors for the complexities of the contemporary world. Sound, like any other art form, carries both feeling and meaning. If we understand it as a mixture of echoes, feedback, and vibrations, how do its context and site-specificity contribute to the construction of possible meanings? If we conceive of sound as something that constantly migrates, morphs in between references and recognisability, what kinds of knowledge does it produce? Finally, in what ways can sound practices articulate subjective positions, criticalities, and sensibilities through the poetic power embedded in the choice, combination, and mixing of sounds, as well as in the inherently migratory nature of sound itself?
The Kintai.Kitaip residency programme invites sound practitioners to spend two weeks in Kintai developing new sound works, sharing their practices with fellow artists, and exchanging perspectives on whether, and how, their sound practices can literally, metaphorically, materially, or conceptually reflect on experiences and positionalities in relation to topics that concern us today. The resulting sound pieces will be presented at two public end-of-residency events in Kintai and Vilnius. In autumn 2026 and spring 2027, artists will be invited to perform these pieces in Estonia and Latvia. Additionally, the works will be digitally released on the Music Information Centre Lithuania label.

Please send the application to info@kintaiarts.lt before the 16th of February 23:59 (CET).  

More information  https://kintaiarts.lt/atviri-kvietimai/kintai-kitaip-open-call-2026/

The project is funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture