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Applications are now open for TEREN_СЛОЈЕВИ⁰⁰¹·Δ26 (Sound / Extraction / Memory), the first edition of a new multi-year residency programme at Zvjezdane Staze in Mijakovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The programme explores the political economy of the present and its historical layers through sound as both material and method, inviting artists working across sound art, visual arts, and interdisciplinary practices. Deadline to apply: May 20, 2026.
At a glance:
Application deadline: 20 May 2026, 23:59 CET
Residency period: 1 July – 31 August 2026 · 62 days
Location: Mijakovići, Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Residents: 3 (individual artists or one collective)
Fields: sound art · visual arts · interdisciplinary practices
About the project
✦·TEREN_СЛОЈЕВИ⁰⁰¹·Δ26: Sound / Extraction / Memory is the first edition of a multi-year programme at Zvjezdane Staze in Mijakovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which interrogates the political economy of the present and its historical accumulations through sound as material and method.
Mijakovići, a remote mountain village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lies opposite the ruins of Bobovac, the medieval royal seat of Bosnia, and is the working ground of the residency. A vernacular knowledge predates the residency and continues alongside it; the work takes place within this longer continuity. The municipality of Vareš, of which Mijakovići is part, is itself layered ground: the early Slavic presence, the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Yugoslav periods, the industrial accumulation and its destruction in the 1990s, and the interregnum administered in policy discourse as “transition” overlap there. The most recent layer is an extractive corporate operation drawing silver, lead, and zinc from the ground thirty kilometres away, in the same watershed that feeds tens of thousands of households downstream.
Three parts structure the edition: Sound as material and method, Extraction as the political economy that shapes the present, Memory as the long history still acting on it. The work moves within the traditions of sonic ecology and deep listening without committing to a single method, holding the human, the non-human, and the technological on equal ground.
The resulting works are presented across the 2026/2027 season in Vareš, Vienna, and Sarajevo, in connection with Zvučne Staze, a sound walk near Bobovac launching in June 2026.
Who can apply
The call is open to artists working with sound: composers, sound artists, musicians, performers, artistic researchers, visual artists. Transdisciplinary practices that engage site-responsive sonic work, or extended modes of sonic inquiry, are welcome.
Eligibility
- 18 years or older
- Legal residence in a Creative Europe country other than Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of nationality
- Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina with legal residence abroad in a Creative Europe country are eligible
Creative Europe countries: the 27 EU Member States, plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine. OCTs and ORs of the EU are also eligible. Full list at culture.ec.europa.eu/culture-moves-europe.
Application
Applications are submitted through the form at zvjezdanestaze.ba/apply/form. The following documents are required:
- CV / short biography— maximum 1 page
- Portfolio— links or PDF of representative work (scores, audio, video, documentation, project pages)
- Letter of motivation— maximum 800 words, on why Zvjezdane Staze and what you intend to bring
- Project proposal— maximum 1,500 words, on concept, working methodology, and expected outcomes within the framework of Sound / Extraction / Memory
All documents in English, German, or Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.
APPLY NOW! Apply at zvjezdanestaze.ba/apply/form
Application deadline · 20 May 2026, 23:59 CET