Story Lines:
Trail Residency
Story Lines: Trail Residency
A Site-Specific Residency for Collective Creation and Deep Listening
Organized by Snail: Slow Culture & Stories for Change
Project Description
Trail Art Residency is a land-based, site-specific creative residency set within the forest trails of Manitoulin Island. This year’s edition centers on the theme Memory as Resistance, inviting artists to explore how personal, cultural, and ecological memory can become acts of resilience, connection, and transformation in the face of forgetting, erasure, and crisis.
This is a collaborative residency: artists will co-create the trail together, responding to one another’s practices, building relational artworks, and weaving a shared narrative into the land. Each contribution becomes a link in a poetic chain—honoring memory as an active force.
Works may include installation, performance, sound, poetry, ephemeral materials, or participatory gestures. Visitors will walk through the trail, experiencing each work in sequence—a forest gallery of voices, presence, and resistance.
Call for Participation
Are you an artist, performer, or land-based storyteller interested in creating with others in nature?
Join Trail Art Residency—a collaborative, site-responsive experience where participants collectively shape a memory trail through artistic creation.
Who Should Apply
- Visual artists, performers, poets, dancers, sound practitioners, or Activists
- Artists working with memory, environment,displacement, ritual, or community engagement
- People open to co-creation, deep listening, and process-based collaboration
- You do not need to be a professional—just committed to shared practice
What’s Required
Each selected resident will:
1. Participate in a collective orientation and trail walk.
2. Co-create one segment of a shared memory trail.
3. Use materials and methods that are environmentally mindful.
4. Be available for collaborative dialogue and shared installation periods.
5. Share a reflection (written, video, or audio) about your process.
6. Optionally: Guide visitors during an open trail day or contribute to a closing ritual.
You Will Receive
- Time and space to co-create in a protected natural setting
- Inclusion in a public, collaborative trail-based exhibition
- Documentation of your work and process
- A presence on the project’s website and printed trail map
- Connection with fellow artists and shared storytelling
How to Apply
Email your interest to:
Please include:
- Your name and location
- A short proposal (max 200 words) on how you’d approach the theme 'Memory as Resistance'
- Any links to past work or similar collaborations (if available)
- Your availability for residency between July and September 2025