The Singapore Art Museum's Research Residencies, now in their fourth cycle, constitute a sustained institutional commitment to independent inquiry across artistic and curatorial practice. Running from June 2027 through December 2028, the program is administered by SAM's Artist, Community & Education and Curatorial & Research departments, and is open to applicants from across the globe. It is a no-fee opportunity, structured as a grant rather than a prize, with residents expected to pursue self-directed research while remaining open to engagement with communities and publics in Singapore. The museum does not prescribe outcomes; it provides the conditions—time, context, and institutional adjacency—for work that requires duration and reflection. Cycle 4 is organized around three thematic strands. Listening/Attuning platforms practices that respond critically to the urgencies of the present. Making/Material Cultures foregrounds material inquiry and the processes of fabrication, attending to the intelligence of craft and the politics of matter. Beyond Human/Interdependence addresses the relationships between humans, technologies, ecologies, and other forms of life, considering how these worlds remain fundamentally interconnected. Applicants are invited to interpret these themes in relation to their own practice, whether through visual art, writing, film, performance, or adjacent fields. The residency is not a production residency in the conventional sense, nor a studio program with fixed deliverables. It is a research residency: a period of concentrated investigation, often culminating in public-facing or community-engaged activity, but defined primarily by the rigor of the questions pursued. For practitioners whose work depends on sustained thinking—across archives, ecologies, material histories, or sonic and attentional regimes—the program offers an institutional framework without imposing a curatorial thesis. The museum's role is to host, convene, and occasionally provoke, not to direct.