ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT DIGITAL ARCHIVES FROM EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN REGIONS
Open call for projects until April, 30th 2025
The Tramontana network was set up in 2011 with the driving idea of collecting and promoting aspects of the intangible cultural heritage of Europe’s mountains and rural societies. The network currently has eleven partners working in mountain contexts of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Poland and Albania.
Until October 2027, the Tramontana Network will carry out a Creative Europe project that includes field research activities, cataloguing and digital archiving, cultural and scientific education, radio, sound and audiovisual creation, hosting artist residencies, organising community events and festivals, and more.
One of the network’s distinctive features is the management of sound and audiovisual digital archives, mostly related to rural and mountain regions, which amount to almost 10,000 documents that reflect the cultural, social and environmental richness of those territories.
With this context in mind, a call is open for artistic proposals to be developed between 2025 and 2027 from a reflection on sound and/or audiovisual documents included in four archives of the Tramontana Network:
- Oralitat de Gasconha (Pyrenees, France)
- Soinumapa (Basque Country, Spain)
- Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (Portugal)
- Gran Sasso Laga Intangible Cultural Heritage Archive (Abruzzo, Italy)
Artistic projects can be developed in areas such as visual art, sound art, electronic and contemporary music, media arts, essay and poetry, mixed-media arts, etc., can relate to additional territories and should also reflect and/or express one or more of the following themes:
- Agropastoralism and transhumance.
- Water cultures (rivers, springs, fountains, water mills, irrigation systems, myths and symbolism linked to water, etc.).
- Social and cultural mobility in mountain areas.
- Agricultural/mountain landscapes and food production.
The residency is open to artists who are European residents and the selected resident artists will benefit from help, mediation and availability towards their research by the Tramontana Network’s team of artists, researchers and archivers.
Each selected artist will receive a gross amount of EUR 500,00 to develop his/her project and the final pieces will be presented in physical or virtual public contexts.
Applications must be sent by email to info@re-tramontana.org until April 30th, 2025 and include the following elements:
- Full name, artistic name, postal address, phone / WhatsApp, email and website.
- A text describing an artistc project specifically conceived for this artist residency program, with a maximum of 7.500 characters with spaces.
- A CV or artistic biography and links to previous works that might be related to the proposal.
All inquiries about this open call can be sent by email to info@re-tramontana.org.
Note: One of the selected projects will receive a special award linked to the Marta Iannetti Prize, promoted by Tramontana network partner Bambun APS and established to honor anthropologist Marta Iannetti (1984-2020), with the aim of publicizing her scientific, cultural and civic work and supporting the research and cultural production of young academics and artists in national and international contexts. The winning project will be announced by May 31st, 2025.