EVENT HORIZON ARTIST RESIDENCY

Event Horizon is an Artist Residency based in Crete. A rural retreat for production and experimentation offering private creative space for people working in the visual arts, music, literature and ecology. The studio building is created from insulated shipping containers that are set in 30,000 Sqm (3 hectares/8 acres) of stunningly beautiful olive grove meadows close to the sea.

Residencies have a recommended minimum of 2 weeks up until a maximum of 3 months.

Accommodation is available, both rented and subsidized.

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The studios are set in 30,000 Sqm (3 hectares/8 acres) of olive grove meadows close to the sea. Using the cosmological phenomenon of the Event Horizon as an analogy for transcendence, there is time and space for creativity. A residency is available following an application. Successful proposals will lead to a video Interview more...

We selected three 12m steel dry shipping containers from a used cargo dealer in Athens. The containers were then cut in half due to the road access restrictions around Fourni Village. This restriction dictated the design layout which forms a square tunnel with an atrium for natural light.

The 130sqm container studio building is insulated with Polystyrene foamboard under Marine Ply cladding on the outside walls and PolTherma DS sandwich panels on the roof, read more...