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Our residency programmes

Spaces to build

A residency open to every discipline, to crossovers and to surprises.

The residency is a place of passage, encounter, research and creation. It belongs to no single discipline: it invents itself as artists, researchers, technicians, thinkers and dreamers take their place in it. Here, a residency is not a fixed framework but a form in motion.

We welcome projects that question, shift or reinvent the boundaries between visual arts, music, performing arts, design, film, animation, life sciences, hardware, software — or even wetware, that human, sensitive matter linking mind and body.

We have defined forms of residency — writing, research, creation, exploration — but they are only starting points. We remain open to the unexpected, to a field we hadn’t imagined. A safe space to experiment without fear; a free space to invent without constraint.

The place reflects the vision of its artistic director, Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud, for whom creation is like a childhood game — Lego: assembling, moving, combining, transforming. Each project adds a new brick to a shared, modular, ever-evolving structure.

Practice builds experience

Open fields

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    Visual arts and film

    Painting, photography, sculpture, film, animation, VFX, spatial or image design: the visual and audiovisual arts find a place here to reinvent themselves. Formal experimentation, narrative, light and movement are all languages to explore.

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    Performing arts

    Dance, theatre, music, performance and sound art: bodies, voices and rhythms feed the research, in constant dialogue between presence and representation.

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    Science, technology and materials

    Biomechanics, motion capture, artificial intelligence, entomology, physics or anthropology: hardware, software and wetware coexist to redefine the relationships between the living, the machine and the imagination.

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    Spaces to build

    Forms, timeframes and disciplines are flexible. Each residency becomes a laboratory in motion — between rigour and play, intuition and method, solitude and collaboration. The finest example: our culinary experimentation residency.

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Creation Residency

A space to work, research and make

The Creation Residency gives artists dedicated time to make real progress on a project: developing an idea, continuing a work in progress or completing a piece. It provides a workspace, equipment and tailored support, without imposing any predefined form or outcome.

The aim is simple: to let each artist focus, experiment and work in good conditions. The residency encourages dialogue with the local area while leaving artists free to pursue personal research or artistic production.

Disciplines
All artistic disciplines: visual arts, photography, sculpture, digital arts, writing, performance…
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Public talks
  • Short workshops
  • Work-in-progress presentations
  • Exchanges with students or partners
Available equipment
  • Photo / video studio
  • Camera equipment
  • Digital and 3D tools
  • Workspaces
Support
  • Regular conversations about the project
  • Technical or logistical support
  • Help preparing a presentation or open studio
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
  • Séquences Éphémères
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — non-profit association · Arts, sciences & technologies in motion

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Cinematic Writing Residency

Thinking through image, movement and technology

The Cinematic Writing Residency explores a way of writing that builds in staging from the outset: framing, movement, presence, light and rhythm. Text becomes a visual and dramaturgical gesture, informed by performance, space and creative technologies (motion capture, 3D tools, previsualisation).

The residency works as a laboratory where writing is tested, transformed and used to invent new narrative forms for film, animation, video games and interactive experiences.

Disciplines
Screenwriting · Film · Animation · Game writing · Interactive writing · Dramaturgy · Digital arts · Performance capture
Duration
Flexible formats: 1 to 3 weeks, continuous or intensive immersion.
Cultural outreach
  • Meetings with audiences and students
  • Introductory motion capture workshops
  • Presentations of creative processes
  • Masterclasses, depending on the projects
Available equipment
  • Motion capture: Xsens Link · Manus Quantum · Faceware / iPhone
  • 3D & image: Unreal Engine · iClone · Character Creator · Blender
  • Video / photo · 3D scanner · photogrammetry · creative studio
Support
  • Artistic mentoring
  • Dramaturgical feedback
  • Technical supervision
  • Script development support
  • Professional immersion and partner network
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • Studio K-AREA
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • KREACTIF Agency
  • Séquences Éphémères
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — non-profit association · Arts, sciences & technologies in motion

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Scientific Research Residency

A space to observe, analyse and produce knowledge

The Scientific Research Residency welcomes researchers, scientists, historians and anyone engaged in inquiry or observation. It offers a calm working environment, time, tools and a strong local anchoring to pursue research — academic, applied, artistic or interdisciplinary.

The aim is to help residents move forward on a specific subject, bring different kinds of knowledge together, document a phenomenon or test methods. The residency encourages approaches that link fieldwork, analysis and sharing, without imposing a single format for the outcome.

Disciplines
Humanities and social sciences · Anthropology · History · Biomechanics · Cultural studies · Natural sciences · Documentation · Artistic research
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Work-in-progress presentations
  • Workshops or public talks
  • Exchanges with students or local partners
Available equipment
  • Audio and video tools
  • Photogrammetry
  • 3D scanner
  • Motion capture
  • Workspaces and documentation
Support
  • Follow-up conversations
  • Methodological or technical support
  • Help with documentation and dissemination
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
  • Séquences Éphémères
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Artistic Exploration Residency

A space to test, search and open new paths

The Artistic Exploration Residency is open to artists from every discipline. It offers a framework to experiment, try out ideas, put an intuition to the test or explore a material — with no obligation to produce a finished work.

The aim is to give artists time to try, to cross practices, to open their work to other forms or methods. The residency encourages projects that grow over time, through encounters with the place and the territory, and through dialogue between disciplines.

Digital tools can support the process (documentation, exploration, capture) but are never a requirement: they are simply one more way to broaden or document a line of research.

Disciplines
Visual arts · Dance · Music · Performance · Writing · Theatre · Digital arts · Photography · Sculpture
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 4 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Conversations or short workshops
  • Work-in-progress presentations
  • Meetings with audiences or students
Available equipment
  • Photo / video studio
  • Digital and 3D tools
  • Workspaces
  • Documentation and experimentation equipment
Support
  • Conversations about the artistic approach
  • Technical or logistical support
  • Option to prepare a small showing or public talk
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
  • Séquences Éphémères
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Culinary Experimentation Residency

A space to cook, test and pass on

The Culinary Experimentation Residency extends the spirit of the Studio’s Canteen, born of sharing, learning and food self-sufficiency. It offers a place to explore cooking as a creative practice: trying out ideas, working with local produce, meeting growers and developing culinary techniques in a calm, welcoming setting.

A garden on site serves as a starting point: local plants, herbs, fruit, seasonal vegetables and acclimatised varieties. The residency favours a simple, open approach — fermentation, pastry, everyday cooking, family recipes, fine dining or experimental research: everything can be explored, with no hierarchy.

The goal is not performance but transmission: sharing a meal, exchanging methods, celebrating know-how and leaving a trace (a recipe, an image, a workshop or a written account).

Disciplines
Cooks · Pastry chefs · Artisans · Culinary artists · Growers · Researchers of taste
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Cooking workshops
  • Meetings with pupils or audiences
  • Exchanges with local growers
  • Shared meals or small showings
Available equipment
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Preparation equipment
  • Documentation tools (photo / video)
  • Direct access to the garden for herbs and produce
Support
  • Conversations about the approach
  • Technical or logistical support
  • Option to prepare a small showing or public event
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • Lycée Nord Atlantique – Sainte-Marie (en discussion)
  • Darty Martinique
  • Habitat Martinique
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Curatorial Residency

Designing, organising and sharing narratives around artworks

The Curatorial Residency is designed for exhibition curators, programmers, researchers, artists and cultural project leaders. It offers a framework to develop a curatorial approach: conceiving an exhibition, a programme, a trail, a publication or a form of mediation.

The residency makes room to explore the links between works, artists, contexts and audiences, and to question formats of display, storytelling and transmission. The aim is to move a project forward, structure one’s thinking, or test a narrative or a set-up — with no obligation to deliver a final outcome straight away.

Disciplines
Curating · Exhibition-making · Cultural programming · Mediation · Curatorial research · Publishing · Visual and digital arts
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Professional meetings
  • Presentations of curatorial approaches
  • Exchanges with artists, students or audiences
  • Experimental mediation formats
Available equipment
  • Workspaces
  • Documentation tools
  • Digital tools for design and mediation
  • Audio / video equipment
  • VR headsets
Support
  • Conversations about the curatorial project
  • Methodological support
  • Help structuring and presenting the project
  • Introductions to cultural stakeholders
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Women’s Voices Residency

A space for women’s voices to emerge, assert themselves and be heard

The Women’s Voices Residency is for artists, writers, musicians, performers, researchers and filmmakers whose work questions, carries or explores women’s voices in all their diversity.

It offers a framework to develop an artistic or research project: time to write, create, reflect or experiment. It welcomes individual or collective approaches rooted in personal, social, historical or contemporary narratives, without imposing any form or medium.

The aim is to let these voices unfold in good conditions. The residency values sincere, situated approaches that pay attention to place, to life paths and to lived experience.

Disciplines
Writing · Music · Singing · Performance · Theatre · Dance · Visual arts · Film · Digital arts · Artistic research
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Talks and exchanges with audiences
  • Workshops or discussions about practice
  • Work-in-progress or open showings
  • Sharing sessions with students or local groups
Available equipment
  • Work and rehearsal spaces
  • Audio, video and digital tools
  • Documentation equipment
  • Creative studio
Support
  • Conversations about the artistic approach
  • Technical or methodological support
  • Help structuring the project
  • Networking and visibility
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Research-Based Art Residency

Developing an artistic practice grounded in research

The Research-Based Art Residency is for artists whose practice rests on research: fieldwork, archives, observation, experiments, protocols or cross-disciplinary encounters.

It offers a framework for practices in which research is central — theoretical, documentary, scientific, social or situated: time to explore a subject, test hypotheses, gather material and consider the forms this research might take.

The aim is not necessarily to produce a finished work, but to move a process forward, build a methodology or lay the foundations of a research-driven project.

Disciplines
Visual arts · Digital arts · Photography · Installation · Performance · Writing · Artistic research · Interdisciplinary practices
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Research or work-in-progress presentations
  • Meetings with audiences or students
  • Discussions about methods and processes
  • Experimental presentation formats
Available equipment
  • Workspaces
  • Documentation tools (photo, video, sound)
  • Digital and 3D tools
  • Capture and archiving systems
Support
  • Conversations about the research approach
  • Methodological or technical support
  • Help structuring the project
  • Support with presenting and sharing the work
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Generative Art Residency

Exploring creation through systems, rules, computation and data

The Generative Art Residency is for artists, designers, developers and researchers who create with generative systems: algorithms, rules, data, simulations or automated processes.

It invites residents to think of the work as an evolving process, born of a dialogue between the living and the machine. The artistic gesture lies not only in the result, but in designing the system, choosing the rules, observing variations and seeing how computation interacts with the real world.

The residency is a space for free experimentation: testing protocols, bringing data, images, sound, movement or behaviour into dialogue, watching what emerges and documenting the transformations.

Disciplines
Generative art · Digital arts · Algorithmic art · Creative coding · Computational design · Data art · Artistic research
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Process presentations
  • Exchanges with audiences or students
  • Introductory workshops in creative coding and generative systems
  • Discussions on creation, technology and the living world
Available equipment
  • Workstations
  • Digital creation tools
  • 3D and real-time environments
  • Motion capture, photogrammetry, 3D scanner
  • Visualisation, image and sound tools
Support
  • Follow-up conversations
  • Methodological or technical support
  • Help with documentation and dissemination
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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Video Game Residency

Exploring games as a space for creation, storytelling and experimentation

The Video Game Residency is for game makers: game designers, developers, artists, writers, animators, sound designers, researchers and hybrid collectives. It is a place to question mechanics, systems, interactive storytelling and the relationship with the player — with the body and performance as creative materials.

Motion capture is available as a research and prototyping tool: recording movement, exploring acting, animating characters, testing embodied gameplay or staging interactive sequences.

The aim is not necessarily to ship a finished game, but to advance creative or technical research, lay the foundations of a project or explore new forms of play.

Disciplines
Game design · Programming · Animation · Performance capture · Interactive storytelling · Art direction · Level design · Sound design · UX · Game research
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Prototype or process presentations
  • Introductory game design and motion capture workshops
  • Exchanges with students or audiences
  • Discussions on games, the body and performance
Available equipment
  • Workstations
  • Real-time game engines
  • 3D creation and animation tools
  • Motion capture systems (body, hands, face)
  • Testing and rehearsal spaces
Support
  • Regular conversations about the project
  • Technical support in game design, animation and pipeline
  • Guidance on integrating motion capture
  • Help with documentation and presentation
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
  • Séquences Éphémères
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — non-profit association · CARIALITY Studios — SASU

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Immersive Experience Residency

Designing stories you can step into: VR, augmented reality, sensory spaces

The Immersive Experience Residency is for writers, artists, directors, designers, developers and researchers creating works that audiences step inside: virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive installations, spatial sound or real-time experiences.

It approaches immersion not as a technological feat but as a way of writing presence: where the visitor stands, what they see and hear, what their body feels. Digital twins, photogrammetry and motion capture make it possible to bring the territory — its places and its memories — into the experience.

The aim is to move forward on a prototype, a scene or a proof of concept, to test a journey with early audiences, and to clarify the narrative and technical choices of an immersive project.

Disciplines
Virtual reality · Augmented reality · Immersive storytelling · Interactive installation · Spatial audio · Digital twins · Real-time · Artistic research
Duration
Flexible residencies: 1 to 3 weeks.
Cultural outreach
  • Public playtests
  • Prototype presentations
  • Introductory VR and photogrammetry workshops
  • Exchanges with students or professionals
Available equipment
  • VR headsets
  • Real-time engines (Unreal Engine, Blender)
  • Photogrammetry and 3D scanner
  • Motion capture (body, hands, face)
  • Workstations and testing spaces
Support
  • Regular conversations about the project
  • Technical support on real-time pipelines
  • Guidance on writing and staging the experience
  • Help with documentation and presentation
With the support of
  • Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DAC) of Martinique
  • Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM)
  • Town of Le Vauclin
Operational partners
  • CARIALITY Studios
  • Studio K-AREA
  • KREACTIF Agency
Host organisation
ANISOTROPIE — French non-profit association (loi 1901)

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How we work

An open approach, paced by projects and encounters

Open calls, current and upcoming, let us host artists and researchers within defined frameworks and timeframes. Beyond these calls, the residency remains open to encounters, conversations and direct proposals. Many projects are born from an exchange, a shared idea, a mutual curiosity.

This flexible, organic approach reflects how we work: listen, understand, build together. It lets us welcome approaches that go beyond predefined frameworks — artistic, scientific, educational or experimental.

Would you like to propose a project, or simply start a conversation?

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