Dedicated to growing connections across disciplines, practices and geographies, TBA21–Academy collaborates with its partner initiative Alligator Head Foundation to offer a Residency Programme that would facilitate the creative process for thinkers to imagine a radically different worldview and create solutions that break new ground. 

TBA21–Academy Residency is a residency programme for artists, biologists, engineers, designers, filmmakers, writers, musicians, dancers and other creators at the marine laboratory Alligator Head Foundation (AHF) in the East Portland Fish Sanctuary, Jamaica. Residents are encouraged to explore themes that relate to the ocean and the communities surrounding the oceans as a means to engage with the most urgent ecological, social and economic issues of the day. TBA21–Academy seeks to reinvent the culture of exploration in the 21st century while inciting new knowledge, communicative strategies and dynamic solutions for the environmental challenges facing the world we inhabit. 

TBA21–Academy Residency at AHF has continuously fostered artistic production and integration with local initiatives. The Alligator Head Foundation is dedicated to fusing science, art and community to deliver innovative solutions that would strengthen national and global policy for ecological resilience. As such, the foundation provides a creative and dedicated environment for research, production and collaborative possibilities for its artists in residence. 

Projects emerging from or influenced by the residency programme include: Susanne Winterling: Glistening Troubles (2017), Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II (2019), Dark Morph's installation The So(ng)qe/Tovuto Kyrrahafið Sound Field and LP Dark Morph (2019), an ongoing project developing 3D printing technology using seaweed and recycled ocean plastic by Nathaniel Petre, and a series of wooden sculptures by Claudia Comte.