Video Commission Residency 2026 - Call for submissions

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the 4th Video Commission Residency, VCR Vol.4: Attrition. This residency supports the creation of new experimental screen-based works, inviting submissions from artists for a single-channel video responding to the theme of Attrition.

Attrition describes a condition shaped by sustained contact and duration, in images, in materials, in environments. Form and meaning change through processes that accumulate over time.

For this edition, artists are encouraged to consider how images and environments are worn down through use. Attention can move between the material image and the conditions that shape it. Surfaces erode. Signals weaken. Memory distorts. Landscapes, both physical and digital, carry traces of prolonged stress, circulation, and extraction.

Artists may work with analog or digital processes, or move between both. Proposals should focus on how the accumulation of processes alters the visual, engaging feedback systems, compression, copying, translation, repeated handling, or other similar processes. Each iteration produces difference; each transfer leaves a trace.

We seek proposals for experimental single-channel videos (5–20 minutes). Selected artists will receive a $1,500 artist fee and for artists based in Winnipeg, we can offer access to Video Pool's facilities and equipment (valued at $1,500).

Final works will be showcased at VP’s Poolside Gallery at the end of the residency and added to Video Pool’s distribution catalogue and archive. Our distribution department promotes artists' work for exhibitions and screenings, submits to open calls, and preserves work for future programming.

To apply, submit a brief project description, CV, and recent or related work via the application form on our website