Applications are now open for the High Tides Response Residency. 

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Brand X invite Pasifika artists working across sound, music, performance, club or drag acts to apply for this paid, solo residency. Supporting a Greater Sydney-based Pasifika artist, this residency offers dedicated studio time to create a performative direct response to 4A’s upcoming exhibition High Tides.

High Tides is a co-curated exhibition led by award-winning Pasifika creative producer Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu, developed in close collaboration with artists Morgan Hogg and Yuki Kihara, and members of the Pasifika community in Greater Western Sydney.

In this residency, the selected artist has the opportunity to reflect, refract and react to the exhibition’s themes, ideas and provocations. Formulating a new performance-based work to be presented as part of 4A LIVE: Ball. A vibrant public celebration of Pasifika creativity, sustainability and queer excellence.

Key Information:

Call Out Closes: 9am, 12 March 2026
Notification: Late March, 2026
After notification: Scheduled site-visit & catch up with Creative Producer

High Tides Exhibition: 18 April – 28 June, 2026
Residency Period: 5 days between, 17 April – 24 April, 2026
4A LIVE: Ball event: 24 April, 2026
Venue/s: Residency at the City of Sydney Creative Studios, Bathurst St.; Performance at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Haymarket.

If you have any questions about the program or application, please contact programs@brandx.org.au or hello@4a.com.au.

Please read the Guidelines and the Accessible Formats to find out more information on the High Tides Residency and apply below. 

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This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and the City of Sydney Creative Studios, and presented with collaborating partner Brand X.

Image credit: Yuki Kihara, Tuni, 2025 from ‘Tala o le tau: Stories from the weather’. Supported by the Moata’a Aualuma Community, Sāmoa; Gus Fisher Gallery Te Whare Toi o Gus Fisher, Aotearoa New Zealand; Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa; and Gow Langsford, Aotearoa New Zealand. Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Gow Langsford, Aotearoa New Zealand.