SIT-PLU Open Call for Situated Residencies

About the Open Call

Lungomare is happy to announce the launch of the European project Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) and the Open Call for artists and creative practitioners to take part to eight year-long Situated Residency Programs. SIT-PLU stems from acknowledging that we cannot address contemporary crises and socio-ecological challenges using the same categories that originated them. Arts and culture can be significant triggers for contributing to new perspectives emerging and, for doing so, a particular approach should be explored, in which creative practitioners and researchers implement ‘situated’ practices. The residencies engage in four different contexts to explore innovative perspectives of cross-disciplinary research and new forms of context-specific artistic interventions, through a situated approach. Drawing on the Zapatista concept of the pluriverse—'a world where many worlds fit'—the project embraces diverse ways of knowing and living, foregrounding buen vivir (social well-being), communal interdependence, and the relationships between human and more-than-human entities. The four organisations that will host the residencies are: Baltan Laboratories (Netherlands), Lungomare (Italy), Idensitat (Spain), ZEMOS98 (Spain). The Open Call is aimed at projects and ideas capable of activating sustainable and contextually rooted transformation processes. Interventions might take shape as a physical intervention in public space or as participatory impulses to generate lasting changes through the involvement of local communities. Particular attention is paid to practices that are able to involve new audiences and contribute to the construction of a dialogic and inclusive culture.

What is Offered

Eight year-long Situated Residency Programs, including an artist fee and production budget.

Requirements

The Open Call is aimed at projects and ideas capable of activating sustainable and contextually rooted transformation processes. Interventions might take shape as a physical intervention in public space or as participatory impulses to generate lasting changes through the involvement of local communities. Particular attention is paid to practices that are able to involve new audiences and contribute to the construction of a dialogic and inclusive culture. Applications are limited to one residency per applicant.

How to Apply

The applications will be structured in 2 phases and evaluated by a committee composed of representatives of SIT-PLU partners: Phase 1 > application submission (for only one of the residencies) through this form (https://tally.so/r/3y1rQ0) Deadline: 20 June Results: by the end of July Phase 2 > selection of three creative practitioners and development of a more specific proposal in dialogue with the host institution Deadline: 4 August Results: by the end of September.