What we provide
A shared studio space
A modest living accommodation. Each
resident is provided with a room. The
kitchen and bathroom are shared.
Access to our library.
Resources to help artists pursue their
interests.
Tools and skills that introduce the
residents to practices centered in
sustainability such as urban gardening,
composting, and canning and
preserving food, among others.
Use ANIMA as a space for exhibition/
workshop/project space, with the
supervision of the team.
What we expect from
our residents
Present an output at the end of the Come Say Hi!
residency. The output can be anything
—an exhibit, a talk, a workshop, a
performance, etc. Just like its rootword, we want to
pulsate with life, breath, soul, and spirit!
Be willing to participate and learn about Let’s collaborate!
sustainable practices offered by ANIMA.
animaartspace@gmail.com
Be independent. While our team will try Instagram - @anima.artspace
to provide as much support as we can, Facebook - ANIMA Art Space
please understand that our members do
not work full-time for ANIMA, and thus, Open daily, 10AM - 7PM
may not be available on certain days.
Unit C, 2nd floor, 24 Chanca Building,
Be open to live and work with other Commonwealth Ave, Matandang
residents, as well as some members Balara, Quezon City, 1119 Metro Manila,
of the team. Majority of our residency Philippines
space is communal, thus, we expect
our residents to always be kind, and
respectful towards other people they
might be sharing the space with.
Help maintain the cleanliness and
orderliness of the residency space.
SYMBIOTICA AIR
Artist-in-Residency
Program
 "The experience of
being alive, of being
in full life, of
being joyful, is a ABOUT THE
fundamental component PROGRAM
The name is derived from the Greek word of reality: the desire
“sumbiosis”, meaning “companionship”. Depending on the needs of the artist, we
This is also the root word of “symbiosis”, for experience and offer Long Stay Residency (1-3 months)
an intimate biological interaction or Short Stay Residency (1-3 weeks).
between two different organisms that to become one's own
live together. We open our network of creatives and
full self is a general practitioners to you. Here, you can meet
Symbiotica AIR offers creatives, people from all sorts of backgrounds
SYMBIOTICA AIR is researchers, and other practitioners rule of 'biological and disciplines that may help you make
from various fields a space not only to your residency more enriching and
ANIMA Art Space's concentrate on their creative practice, worldmaking', which informative.
but also to meet other individuals, to co-
Artist-in-Residency work, co-learn, to nest, to rest, and more consists of both
importantly, to be enlivened.
program. interior/ experiential
This idea of being enlivened, to be full
of life and to feel alive, is what biologist and exterior/material
Andreas Weber calls “Enlivenment”
— “the insight that every living being construction of a self."
is fundamentally connected to reality
through the irreducible experience of -Andreas Weber
being alive”.

Asking what life is, what our role is within

it, and how we live it, is fundamental to
how we can practice sustainability and
live a joyful and dignified life, outside the
hold of neoliberal capitalism.

We hope to provide our residents the

experience to partake in the ephemeral
but valuable intimacies of our community
to generate art that is animated and
pulsates!