mare/SIT-PLU Open Call for Situated Residencies 2027
Deadline: 31st of May 23:59
Upcoming
Lungomare is pleased to announce the second Open Call for the year 2027 within the framework of the European project Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU): we are looking for artists who wish toapply for one of the four year-long, situated and site-specific residencies.
SIT-PLU builds on the understanding that contemporary crises and socio-ecological challenges cannot be addressed using the same frameworks that produced them. Arts and culture act as catalysts for new perspectives, particularly through ‘situated’ practices developed by creative practitioners and researchers.
The residencies unfold across four different contexts, exploring cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions through a situated approach.
Open Call for Situated Residencies 2027
Inspired by the Zapatista concept of the Pluriverse – “a world where many worlds fit”, the project embraces diverse ways of knowing and living. It foregrounds buen vivir (collective well-being), communal interdependence, and relationships between human and more-than-human entities.
The four hosting organisations are:
- Baltan Laboratories (NL) working with Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel, a residential environment for people with intellectual disabilities.
- Lungomare (IT) investigating riverscapes in Bolzano within the broader project FLUX – Rivers Interventions and Explorations.
- Idensitat (ES) focusing on urban transformations near the mouth of the Besòs River.
- ZEMOS98 (ES) engaging communities in the Cantabrian-Leonese mountain range in response to large-scale wind farm development.
Who can apply?
The Open Call welcomes artists, curators, researchers, activists, designers, and practitioners with transdisciplinary backgrounds, proposing projects and ideas capable of activating sustainable, context-specific transformation processes. These may take the form of:
- physical interventions in public space
- participatory processes that foster long-term change through community engagement
Particular attention will be given to practices that involve new audiences and contribute to building a dialogic and inclusive culture.
Application process
Applications will be structured in two phases and evaluated by a committee composed of SIT-PLU partners:
Phase 1: Application submission (for one residency only) via this form.
Deadline: 31st May
Results: Mid July
Phase 2:
Selection of three practitioners and development of a more detailed proposal in dialogue with the host institution.
Deadline: 14th August
Results: End of September
Residency Timeline
Residencies will begin January 2027 and run for one year.
More information on the artist fee, production budget, and the general terms and conditions of each specific residency can be found in the attachments to the Open Call.
Q&A Sessions
Each institution will hold online Q&A sessions between the 11th and 15th of May to illustrate its conditions and answer specific questions.
Lungomare’s Q&A:
15th May, 11am-12am (CET Time)
::: At a Glance :::
Phase 1
Application submission (for one residency only) via this form
Deadline: 31st May
Results: Mid July
Lungomare Q&A Sessions: Click here to register
Website: https://sitplu.substack.com/
Info: for any enquiries, please contact sitplu.project@luca-arts.be
::: Downloads :::
Full Open Call
Lungomare – Terms and Conditions
The Artists-in-Residency in 2026 are: WOOPS (Lungomare), Daniela Tokashiki Kunigami (Baltan Laboratories), Tian Guoxin and Hannah O’Flynn (Idensitat), Susana Rodilla (Zemos98).
SIT-PLU Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse is a medium-scale Creative Europe cooperation project funded by the European Union involving the following partners: LUCA School of Arts (BE), Floating University (DE), ZEMOS98 (ES), Idensitat (ES), Lungomare (IT), Baltan Laboratories (NL), EINA (ES), Universitat Politècnica de València (ES). SIT-PLU is funded by the European Union.
