mare/Tue., 15 April – Fri., 20 June 2025
SIT-PLU Open Call for Situated Residencies
Deadline: 20 June 23:59 CET
Upcoming
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.
Open Call for Situated Residencies
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 (NL) will work with Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel, a residential environment for people with intellectual disabilities;
Lungomare (IT) will investigate riverscapes in Bolzano and their ecological interconnections within the wider project FLUX – Rivers Interventions and explorations;
Idensitat (ES) will explore urban transformations and their consequences, focusing upon neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area near the mouth of the Besos river
ZEMOS98 (ES) will involve residents in the Cantabrian-Leonese mountain range, where a strong social and environmental resistance is growing against the current model of large-scale wind farm development.
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.
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
Residencies 2026 starts in January 2026 for one year.
A second open call will be launched at the beginning of 2026, to apply for Residencies 2027 (Residency starts in November 2026).
More info on the artist fee, production budget and the general terms and condition of each specific residency, can be found in separate attachments to the general open call.
Each institution will hold online Q&A sessions to illustrate its conditions and specifics:
5 May, 6-7pm Idensitat online Q&A;
6 May, 6-7pm Baltan online Q&A;
7 May, 12pm-1pm Lungomare online Q&A;
20 May, 5-6pm ZEMOS98 online Q&A;
A special presentation event will be held at Floating University in Berlin on Friday, June 6 (7-9 p.m.).
::: At a glance :::
Application form: https://tally.so/r/3y1rQ0
Deadline phase 1: 20 June
Results phase 1: by the end of July
Lungomare Q&A Sessions: 7 May, 12pm-1pm online
Special Event: 6 June, 7-9 pm official presentation at Floating University (Berlin), in dialogue with the local artist community, researcher Pablo Calderón Salazar and curator Lorenzo Gerbi.
Info: for any enquiries, please contact sitplu.project@luca-arts.be
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