Arts House, Melbourne, 4A Centre for Contemporary Art Sydney and Kalā Kulo in Kathmandu, have co-designed a reciprocal exchange and residency program for a cohort of First Nations artists from
Australia and Adivasi artists from Nepal to connect, foster cross-cultural dialogues and collaborations,
and decentralise shared learnings with their local communities of practice. 

High Altitude Exchange aims to re-centre the artist’s agency in international conversations & experiences
of Indigeneity, with the participants engaging with history, alterity, geopolitics, environment and
contemporary issues through their creative & cultural practices. Embedding methods of open inquiry and
peer exchange, High Altitude Exchange will harness rigour in imagination, practice and relation.

Key dates: 

16 - 30 April 2025
Kalā Kulo, Kathmandu + Mustang, Nepal

20 - 29 October 2025
Arts House, Melbourne, Australia

30 Oct - 7 Nov 2025
4A Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

The residency will have a semi-structured itinerary at each place, including meetings with local artists &
collectives, studio/site visits, reciprocal workshops & practice-sharing sessions, as well as space to
ideate, reflect and create. The full itinerary will be discussed and shared with the artists prior to each
stage of the residency.

Upon return and with time for the ideas to percolate, Arts House and 4A will host a 2-week
residency, with the cohort spending a week at each space culminating in a symposium in
October/November 2025. This will be an opportunity for the cohort to interrogate, translate and
build upon solidarities through artistic strategies and radical pedagogies.