Performing Arts and Technology – Research-Creation Residencies | SAT x LAB7

As part of the CALQ’s new Digital Hubs initiative, the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] and LAB7 are partnering to launch a new research-creation residency program. This program aims to provide artists with a space for exploration and technological innovation, freeing them from the constraints and pressure to produce results typically associated with production residencies.

We’ll be supporting three projects that bring the performing arts and technological arts together around the theme of human movement. Whether you’re a NPO, a collective or an independent artist, this program offers you personalized coaching by the SAT and LAB7 teams, two weeks (10 days) of work in a studio at the 7 Fingers’s Creation Centre in Montreal, as well as a $10,000 grant.

This program is designed for artists and collectives who wish to explore, experiment with, and develop an immersive artistic approach that combines the performing arts and technology, using cutting-edge or experimental technologies, without necessarily aiming to produce a finished work in the short term. We will help you identify and get comfortable with the technological tools relevant to your project, understand their limits and possibilities, and carry out a research-creation phase. You will also benefit from effective working methods for combining the performing arts and technological arts, thereby improving collaboration processes between professionals in these two sectors.