FIAP Martinique 2026 Open Call for Performers, Artists, Curators and Art Critics (Martinique)

On the Move; Martinique; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

An international art festival is seeking performance artists, choreographers, visual artists, curators, and art critics for its 2026 edition in Martinique. Selected candidates will receive financial support for travel, accommodation, and production costs. Participants will create works for specific sites and engage in workshops and presentations. This is a unique opportunity to explore contemporary issues through a Caribbean lens.

Prestations

Round-trip travel support

Production cost support

Participation grant

Local transportation support

Qualifications

• Performance artists, choreographers, and visual artists are encouraged to apply.
• Curators and art critics should have an interest in relevant practices.
• Ability to create a curatorial project and write for a catalog.

Responsabilités

• Create site-specific performative works.
• Participate in public presentations and workshops.
• Develop a curatorial project collaboratively.

Connaissances

Transdisciplinary practices

Contextual practices

Ecological practices

Queer practices

Decolonial practices

Description du poste

FIAP Martinique 2026 Open Call for Performers, Artists, Curators and Art Critics (Martinique)

Organised by curators Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut, with the aim of combining the theory of performance art history and performance itself, the International Performance Art Festival in Martinique (from 1 to 10 May 2025) brings together art critics, academics, and performers from Europe, the Caribbean, North America, and Latin America.

For the 2026 edition, FIAP Martinique aims to explore contemporary issues using the Caribbean as a critical lens. The themes include: caregiving, queerness, engaging with Afro-diasporic and Amerindian worlds, and merging with nature. The working languages are French and/or English and/or Spanish.

FIAP Martinique 2026 is calling for solo applications from performance artists, choreographers, and visual artists with transdisciplinary, contextual, ecological, queer, and/or decolonial practices.

Performers will:

• Create performative works designed for specific sites in Martinique
• Promote South-South and transcontinental exchanges
• Participate in public presentations as well as various organised days (workshops, philosophy cafés, professional meetings, etc.)

Support for performers

• Round-trip travel (up to 1,000 EUR), including accommodation and meals
• Production costs (technical, basic materials, supplies, props) during the festival: up to 500 EUR
• Participation grant: 800 EUR (invoice/honorarium)
• Local transportation (including intercity transfers, airport, etc.)

FIAP Martinique 2026 is also calling for curators/art critics from Martinique, the Caribbean, and around the world with an interest in transdisciplinary, contextual, ecological, queer, and decolonial practices and with a curatorial project which will be developed in situ in collaboration with the invited artists.

Expectations include:

• For art critics: create a text for the catalog
• For curators: propose a curatorial project and create a text for the catalog
• Promote South-South and transcontinental exchanges
• Curators will participate in public presentations as well as various organised days (workshops, philosophy cafés, professional meetings, etc.)

Support for curators/art critics

• Round-trip travel (up to 1,000 EUR), including accommodation and meals
• Research grant: 300 EUR (invoice/honorarium)
• Local transportation (including intercity transfers, airport, etc.)