COP Out is a temporary curatorial collective bringing together five curators across Asia-Pacific to respond to COP31 through public and community art. If you're a curator who works close to community, who's navigating the tension between local urgency and global frameworks - we want to hear from you.

We are bringing together emerging and early to mid-career curators across Asia-Pacific who are interested in public and community art, and believe that culture is one of the most powerful tools we have for climate action.

Not culture as backdrop, not art as illustration for science, but curators and communities as genuine agents of change.

Through an open callout, we will select five curators across the region to join our Artistic Director, Kat Roma Greer - forging the first COP Out Curatorial Collective in a 12-week online program/collaboration.

From August – November the Collective will meet regularly online to knowledge-share, develop a collaborative framework and plan for a public action during COP31(9-20 November) in their community (and beyond!).

This could take the form of a group action, individual exhibitions, locally-relevant platforms, interlinked happenings, complementary online activities.

It’s whatever COP Out cooks up, all whilst building the creative relationships that make genuine collective action possible.

COP OUT is also a longer invitation: to build an ever-increasing curatorial community that thinks collectively about how we programme, who we programme for, and what role public and community art plays in the most urgent conversation of our time.

We're interested in knowledge-sharing that's genuinely reciprocal, collaboration that crosses time zones without losing specificity, and collective action timed to one of the biggest climate moments of 2026 - and that doesn't wait for institutional permission to matter.

Who Should Apply?

If you're a curator who works close to community, who's navigating the tension between local urgency and global frameworks, and who's ready to make something real alongside others doing the same - we want to hear from you.

• You are an emerging or early to mid-career, curator (this includes hybrid creative/curator, artist/curator, producer/curator, community activator/curator) who is interested in developing or extending their curatorial practice in relation to the climate crisis, extending their networks into international curatorial connections, keen to forge new ways of collaborating or working together, and wants to elevate their profile and practice
• You are based in Asia Pacific
• You are already working at the arts/climate/community intersection or intend to begin doing so
• You are interested in working close to and within community
• You are reliable, proactive, innovative, willing to knowledge-share
• You are willing to discuss, share, and accept without shaming, judging, or creating conflict
• You are committed, and will show up – online, and off
• Excited by collective rather than solo practice

Important Dates:

Applications Close: 9 June

Notifications circulate: 30 June

Program commences: Between 13 – 19 August (mutually agreed-upon day and time pending)

90 minute weekly meetings for 12 weeks.