Embassy of Foreign Artists: Residency at Archives of International Organisations in Geneva 2027 (Switzerland)
Overview
The Embassy of Foreign Artists, in partnership with the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute, offers a three-month residency for artists to engage with the archives of international organisations based in Geneva. These archives, comprising reports, official correspondence, international agreements, speeches, and documentary images, constitute a formal record that nonetheless contains the narratives of millions of human stories. The residency positions artists as researchers, inviting them to discern multilateral histories through handwritten notes, draft reports, unofficial maps, artworks, informal sound recordings, and absences. The programme provides selected artists with the time, access, and institutional context to transform archival material into new artistic dimensions. While the exact terms of the residency—including stipend, housing, and studio provisions—are not specified in the available information, the core offer is a three-month period of embedded research within one of the world's most significant concentrations of international governance archives. The partnership with the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism suggests an openness to digital methodologies and critical approaches to archival practice. The curatorial vision is to move beyond the official record, to read against the grain of institutional memory, and to surface the human, the informal, and the absent. Artists are invited to propose projects that develop novel perspectives on topics that resonate with these archives, whether through historical excavation, conceptual intervention, or material experimentation. This is not a residency for the production of illustrative work about international organisations, but for rigorous, speculative, and critically engaged artistic research that reimagines what archives can be and do.