The Studio Meridional project is an independent, self-managed artistic initiative based in Marseille, France. Neither a production venue nor a traditional residency, it is conceived as an evolving context for artistic exploration, reflection, and collaborative exchange. The project welcomes authors working in the fields of arts, cinema, literature, and other disciplines connected to contemporary culture and research, who wish to spend time in Marseille to advance a personal artistic process. Studio Meridional is a place for temporary autonomy and focused work, providing an environment in which artistic practices can unfold through your active responsibility in shaping both your own work and the conditions of the space around you.

Manifesto

Studio Meridional is a space that unfolds as a temporary collective project. It draws inspiration from a deep desire to find new forms of cooperation and to inhabit the world differently. The project emerges as a response to the dominant cultural model and as a reaction to the manifestly insufficient international residency circuit.

Studio Meridional is an autonomous, self-managed, and informal project dedicated to art, science, and culture. It is reserved for research, artistic creation, co-development, and a certain [utopian] idea of sharing life among authors.

Studio Meridional is a dual territory. It is a studio and a home space for individuals who wish to circulate their ideas, express their thoughts, and activate their projects in a collaborative, pluralistic, polymorphic, and non-discriminatory dialogue space. It is also a place where one seeks silence, the agitation of intellectual peace, respect for the rhythm of others’ lives (idiorythmy), care for personal space, and care for the plants that inhabit it.

Studio Meridional is inseparable from encounters with others, the creation of networks among authors, and the productive development of the arts. Its program – always work in progress – is revealed through the duration and intensity of each proposal, as well as through the desire, fulfillment, joy, will, and enthusiasm of the resident author. Studio Meridional and the resident author thus form an alliance of circumstantial cooperation, expressed verbally, sincerely, and informedly. In this alliance, the author acknowledges having read this manifesto and adheres to its founding principles.

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All Residents

From every season and discipline – in alphabetical order