Residency Program

Open Residency
Open and self-directed, these residencies offer access to women artists wishing to deepen the experimentation phase of projects they are currently developing.

Virtual Residency
In response to a growing demand by women artists working outside of the Montreal region wishing to explore the different possibilities of on-line and/or networked collaborations, Studio XX offers Virtual Residencies - open or thematique. Benefiting from its considerable server bandwidth, the Studio can provide remote technical support according to the needs of each project. Participants will be allocated space on the server and the completed production will be published online and hosted by the Studio for a specified period.

The Matricules Project Residency
This new category of residency is centered around the use of the Studio XX archives as source material for a proposal. Lately, Studio XX embarked on a major archival project called Matricules which will allow the Studio to post all of its archival material to date online. It is at once an image bank and a depository of all of the Studio's writings and documentary footage to date.

The Matricules Project is comprised of more than 3400 images files, sounds, videos, written critical texts and press releases documenting all our artistic  streams: The Femmes Br@nchées Salons, The Artist Residencies, Co-productions and Collaborations, Projects and Special Events, training workshops, the HTMlles Festival, XX Files radio interviews and .dpi articles.  The Matricules Project data base allows the user to cross-reference individual artists, events and documents, switching from one event to another. Matricules' main interface offers an image table of contents by event type and by month, providing historical trajectory of the Studio's activities.

This innovative prototype was developed with assistance Drupal Content Management System (CMS): an open source tool for web site creation. From the beginning, the Matricules project was conceived as an interactive archive allowing users to modify or correct the Studio's written history, where necessary. When the site is completed, it will ultimately be a very powerful archival, presentation and interpretation tool for Studio XX's members.