08.07.2026 - 12.07.2026
OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTOUTSIDEIN is an international artist-run collective and transdisciplinary platform founded in 2018.
The collective brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners who collaborate across disciplines. The mission of the collective is to foster decentralized networks of knowledge-making and to support experimental artistic practices that connect inner and outer worlds—personal, social, and ecological. Through residencies, laboratories, workshops, and site-specific projects, the collective supports collaborative processes that investigate sound, embodiment, ecology.
Its activities take place in dialogue with specific landscapes and communities and culminate in performances, exhibitions that encourage new forms of listening, participation, and shared reflection. The collective operates as a flexible international network and regularly collaborates with partners across Europe.
Each August, we gather at Torhaus Gallery in Stadt Wehlen, a former administration building from 1742, standing at the edge of the village where the road meets the forest and the river runs below. We use the Torhaus as an amplifier for daily encounters, for the dialogues and relationships that emerge between people and place. The surrounding forest extends this invitation further, with its paths, dark caves, narrow rock passages, and a fairy-like mound that seems to hold its own memory.
CONCEPT OF LABORATORY, STRUCTURE, PLACE
The laboratory takes place 10 August–4 September 2026 at Torhaus Gallery, Stadt Wehlen, with a public one day–one night event around the forest and town on 29–30 August 2026.
What happens here stays rooted in process. There are no fixed expectations, no predetermined outcomes, only the laboratory itself. Contributions arise spontaneously, shaped by individual impulses and collective forces that gradually find each other.
In the pace of the residency, we practice collective cooking, shared activities, exchange-based knowledge set-ups, and regular channeling circles where we update each other on process, mood, upcoming ideas, and realizations. We dream in shared rooms, stay attentive to the spaces in between, and slowly trace the shape of our converging presences.
The one day–one night public event is where we open the laboratory outward, sharing research and work in progress with those who visit.
This year’s theme of our laboratory: FALLOWING THE BODIES
During the performance the second knob of the ladder fell into nowhere. The sense of the last straw of control snapped. The body disoriented and reached another understanding of structure, losing a contained tightness. The body regained an uncontrollable aspect, an impulse to navigate by itself.
The tension caused us to fall into this turbulence, and led us to think about the relationship between resting and productivity – which is the theme of the lab of this year: FALLOWING THE BODIES. Perhaps what looks like standing still is exactly where something else continues to grow.
A vertical horizon, A streamed mountain. A hilly river.
To fallow, then, is not to empty, but to let what is already there settle into its own time. This is the gesture we borrow this year: to re-orient our bodies, internally and externally, through collective practices, through workshops, through hiking and climbing across the cliffs and forests of Saxon Switzerland, and through space given simply for individual encounter. Together, these become tools, spaces, and practices for resting our bodies.
It’s maybe not a question how and where we go; the experience only exists if we let it be. If we give up plans to hold it, but rather be held by the unfolding, sometimes unpredictable outcomes.
This year’s theme is, as it states, a place to rest, to feel into what we urgently need and seek for.
SELECTION PROCESS
Our selection process comes out from questions which OIIOIOOI shares as a part of the open call, inviting applicants to pick and answer a specific number of questions they choose upon their taste. The Q&A always first consists of reading and selecting the answers from questions. The first stage is done anonymously, where the identity of all applicants is hidden, and OIIOIOOI members don’t know who is who. This we find a very crucial approach, which creates a place without engagement of „personal interest.“
In the 2nd stage we uncover the names which were behind the shared answers, taking a look at sent portfolios. In the 3rd stage we invite a shortlist of applicants for an online interview. When the final selection is made, we send an email letter to all who applied, sharing the results.
TO ENTER THE CALL
Please prepare and send the following in 2 separate PDF files to: outininoutinoutoutin+apply@gmail.com
PDF1 – Questions & Respond
- Choose 3 questions from the list below and respond to them in any way, form, or medium you feel drawn to.
- Generate 3 questions of your own in written English. By doing so, you agree that your questions will be documented and published on our website as part of the „feedback loops“ between applicants, the collective, and wider viewers, you may choose to publish your questions anonymously.
PDF2 – Your experience & works
- Select 1–3 works that respond to our thematic direction, in any format: pdf, jpeg, video link, audio link, or webpage.
- APPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 JULY 2026
- RESULTS ANNOUNCED: 20 JULY 2026
LOCATION
Torhaus Wehlen Gallery at Stadt Wehlen, Germany, and its surrounding nature of Saxon Switzerland.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for application: 12 July 2026
- Announcement of the results: 20 July 2026
- 10 August–4 September 2026: laboratory, workshops
- 29–30 August 2026: Public one day–one night site-specific event (sharing and presenting work in progress from the laboratory) at Stadt Wehlen, Germany (various locations including Torhaus Wehlen Gallery, urban and National Park surroundings)
WHAT WE OFFER
As a private initiative, the financing of this residency programme depends on the support of public institutions. We have submitted applications for financial support and are pleased to offer the following:
- Travel cost share (bus or train)
- Accommodation
- Vegetarian meals
- Artist fee (amount to be confirmed based on funding, will update beginning of August)