The SEAM (Southeast Asia Mobility) Awards Grant exists to recognize, support, and sustain sound art and music based practices across the Southeast Asian region and diaspora.
Through a recurring and regionally informed award cycle, the grant provides both financial support and public recognition to emerging and mid-career practitioners working in experimental, traditional, hybrid and culturally specific forms of sound and music.
The SEAM Awards Grant is committed to strengthening sustainable infrastructure for sound and music practices in the region. We support artists who work on the radical edges of sound. We aim to foster long-term, sustainable frameworks for artistic practice and exchange.
Through an open call format, the SEAM Awards Grant will be awarding $520 AUD of direct financial support to selected artists from the Southeast Asia region as well as providing residency, performance, exchange, and curatorial support opportunities as the program continues.
The award is juried by a rotating panel of key regional curators, artists, and organizers representing the diversity and needs of Southeast Asian music.
The Seam Awards Grant open call will run for 6 weeks with a 4 week deliberation period. Selected artists (up to 3) will be given contracts within 1 week of their selection. SEAM currently offers translation of the application into Vietnamese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Malay, Khmer, and Cebuano.
The SEAM Awards Grant is most interested in the accessibility to our programs and resources and if extra support is required please contact us in the regional language of your choosing through the email on the open call form.
Eligible art forms
Experimental sound
Culturally specific sound art
Traditional music practices
Contemporary composition
Electronic production outside European tradition
Live coded sound
Sound-centric performance art
Poetry/ creative writing as part of a sound-centric practice
Sound-centric installation/ sculptural art
Musical archaeology/ musicology/ ethnomusicology where the sum of the research is recording, audio/ tradition preservation, or otherwise presented in part as sound
Eligible applicants
Must be residing in Southeast Asia
Emerging and mid-career artists
Musician/ Composers
Sound-centric performers
Sound-centric poets/ creative writers
Music researchers who are involved in hands-on research and documentation
Who can’t apply right now
General performance artists
Poets/ writers not explicitly involved in sound practice
General visual artists
Filmmakers
Dancers
DJs
Established artists (15 or more years of practice)
your practice already receives, or are working with an organisation that is already receiving arts funding or financial aid
