Call Out: EOI for Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures
SPACED is excited to announce residency program Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures is launching with a call for Expression of Interest from artists and community partners wanting to participate in socially engaged residencies across the Perth metropolitan area over 2026-27.
Know Thy Neighbour is a residency program by SPACED, that asks local artists to re-contextualise the familiar throughout Perth's metropolitan areas, and deepen their engagement with people, places and ecologies to form socially engaged creative outcomes and temporary public art projects.
In recognition of Know Thy Neighbour's maturation over 10 years through 3 previous iterations, SPACED are calling out for both artists and community partners to be involved in the upcoming Know Thy Neighbour #4 (KTN #4) program by leaning into the curatorial theme Gestures.
The curatorial premise invites artists to respond to the KTN #4 theme of Gestures.
Gestures are moments of connection and communication that exist, often unknowingly, between people and places. What are the actions, movements, behaviours or habits that communicate meaning? What does this place gesture to you, and what do you, and those around you, gesture in return?
KTN #4 projects consider what gestures could bridge connections to places, and simultaneously, be informed through actions of exchanging and receiving. Physical or intangible, absent or present, implicit or explicit: Gestures embodies an interchangeable ecosystem and considers how one can be in reciprocity with local surroundings, situations and overlapping contexts.
Artists are encouraged to engage with their locales and neighbours in new and unexpected ways, exploring the social, environmental and historical contexts of their surrounds. We’re seeking bold, boundary-pushing projects that ignite fresh perspectives on public space—transforming streetscapes, infrastructure, and everyday environments into sites of possibility. Proposals that spark dialogue across cultural, economic, or social divides—and illuminate connections where they’re least expected—will be especially welcomed.
Click below if you are an artist or community partner who in interested in being involved in the program!
Image: Know Thy Neighbour #3: The Subiaco Object Exchange, Jessee Lee Johns, 2023, City of Subiaco, Western Australia, Community partner: Subiaco Voices of Youth, image by Rory Arrigan.
More information about previous Know Thy Neighbour artists, host communities and projects as they unfold can be found in our Artistic Programs page.
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SPACED is supported by West Australian Government, through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
We encourage you please contact Program Manager, KTN #4: Rebecca Riggs-Bennett rebecca@spaced.org.au with any questions you have before submitting your EOI.
Explore our past programs
Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). Know Thy Neighbour #3 investigates notions of place, sites of interest, networks, and social relationships with partner communities.
Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.