OPEN CALL:Applications for PRAXIS study programme 2026

Applications are invited for PRAXIS 2026, the fourth edition of fluent’s educational apparatus, a structure for independent studies to take place from September 9 through December 13, 2026.

Following the same in–person format, the programme will run during 14 weeks (180 contact hours), aiming to instigate a theoretical and practice–based learning process that dives into the systems that constitute our material and immaterial lifes. The programme is structured in four dimensions—or learning modules: I Module: Vital Dimension. II Module: the Dimension of Language and Identity. III Module: Structural Dimension. IV Module: Corporeal & Moving Dimension.

And it will feature a faculty of guest professors including Ghislaine Leung, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Anne Boyer, CAConrad, Archivo Lafuente, Yayo Herrero, Hypatia Vourloumis, Paulino Viota, The Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reading Group, Seán Being, Andrea Rodrigo, Alejandro Alonso Díaz, Pol Esteve Castelló, Tanja Widmann and Johannes Porsch and many others.

The fourth edition of the programme continues an ongoing enquire on the making of forms—social, aesthetic, linguistic, political, performative—as a means to propitiate knowledge and justice, in these times of genocide, cruel devastation and an increasingly morally-wounded world. Tracing its genealogy from PRAXIS I to III, this enquire considers the material and immaterial conditions of such forms, as well as the role of the arts and humanities in developing socially transformative prospects that repair the social realm from reduced listening. In this, the words of Audre Lorde resonate with the logics and dynamics that organize and structure PRAXIS: “(…)it is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. (…) It is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”

Building from this ethos, the programme is open to a maximum of sixteen participants and encourages applications from different fields of knowledge (artists, poets, curators, agroecologists, filmmakers, sociologists, theorists, choreographers, writers, philosophers, land-practitioners, performers, activists, anthropologists and other arts and humanities-related practitioners). The diverse spectrum of practices seeks to unfold an experimental, ephemeral community of learning thus providing participants with free accommodation throughout the programme’s duration.

Applicants should take into consideration:

Application criteria
PRAXIS is an in–person study programme and participants are expected to be in Santander at least in a partially–based basis (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays).

Applications should include a letter expressing how you relate to collective study and why is this period in Santander meaningful to your practice (no longer than 800 words) + a CV including the most relevant work instances to your current practice. Applications should be sent via email to studies@fluentfluent.org (submissions accepted from June 1 until July 1, 2026). The selection process will be carried out by fluent’s team with members of the programme’s faculty and former participants from PRAXIS I to III.

The languages of PRAXIS are English and Spanish. Candidates who are able to follow the sessions in one of these languages only, are still legible to apply. fluent will provide the optimate resources to follow the sessions.

PRAXIS 2026 starts on September 9, running until December 13, with two breaks in between. Changes may occur during the course of the programme.

Tuition fee is 1,500 EUR except for four granted applicants.

Support
fluent provides free accommodation (single rooms in shared appartments) in Santander to participants in the programme. fluent provides four grants to selected candidates (if you are interested in applying to one of the grants, please state the reasons in your application). The programme offers support for obtaining legal documents, if necessary.

For further information about the programme please contact PRAXIS‘ office at studies@fluentfluent.org.

*Image above: Materials displayed during Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s reading group at PRAXIS 025.