mare/Riverscapes and their Ecological Interconnections
SIT-PLU Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse
Riverscapes and their Ecological Interconnections is the residency program curated by Lungomare for Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU), a Creative Europe Cooperation project addressing socio-ecological challenges through context-specific artistic interventions.
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 relationships between human and more-than-human entities.
SIT-PLU is structured around three main components: Situated Residencies (SIT-RES), Pluriversal Laboratories (PLU-LABs), and an Exchange & Evaluation Programme (EX-EV). These activities foster artistic experimentation and knowledge sharing across various European regions.
The residencies take place in four different contexts, exploring innovative perspectives on cross-disciplinary research and new forms of context-specific artistic intervention through a situated approach.
The four organisations hosting the residencies are:
- ZEMOS98 (Spain) – Exploring rural practices in the Cantabrian Mountains
- Idensitat (Barcelona) – Engaging with urban-social dynamics near the Besòs River
- Lungomare (Bolzano) – Investigating riverscapes and their ecological interconnections
- Baltan (Netherlands) – Highlighting rural futures at Landpark Assisië in Noord-Brabant
Lungomare’s Residency Program
The artistic residencies at Lungomare will focus on “Liquid Territories as Learning Sites” within FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations.
The selected artist, urban practitioner, or collective will work on site-specific interventions addressing the river’s ecological, cultural, and social dimensions.
Residency 2026
The first project selected for the SIT-PLU residency, which will start in January 2026, is “Get Wet!“ by the artist collective WOOPS (Hannes Gröblacher, Lilli Lička, Mira Samonig).
The focus goes on Bolzano’s river landscapes and the materiality of water. Through participatory, collaborative, and performative actions, the artists explore different properties of water – from color and temperature to driftwood and particles – creating fluid bridges for exchange, surprise, and shared experiences.
With humor, absurdity, and banality, get wet! invites the audience to develop new perspectives on urban space and the relationship between humans and the more-than-humans.
WOOPS combines performative practice with civic engagement to reflect on and make tangible public spaces, sustainability, and social justice.
Find out more about the project here.
— WOOPS (Work On Outrageous Public Spaces), Hannes Gröblacher, Lilli Lička, Mira Samonig
The project team for get wet! consists of Hannes Gröblacher, Lilli Lička and Mira Samonig, the heads of the WESTBAHNPARK.LIVE initiative, a civil engagement endeavour aimed at improving urban public spaces in relation to climate change, green space justice, urban development and the non-human perspective. This interdisciplinary trio has collaborated on several performative actions in public spaces. Each of them has their own practice and background, and they all teach, research, publish and collaborate in varied teams. Together they gave presentations, talks and lectures and reflected on their artistic practice.
Hannes Gröblacher and Lilli Lička are founding members of BLA. (Büro für lustige Angelegenheiten – Office of Droll Concerns), where they developed and carried out performative actions in public spaces since 2012. The aim of BLA was to address topics where societal conditions manifest in public spaces, such as borders, the distribution of spaces, and rules and regulations.
Residency 2027
The open call is coming soon. Check back on our website in early 2026!
The Public Program
Plurima | Temporary Bookshop for the Pluriverse
Plurima is a temporary bookshop curated by Lungomare and bruno, which, starting from the concept of the pluriverse, invites the public to explore texts that investigate new ideas of matter and trace the outlines of an ecological lexicon for the future.
Part of the fifth edition of BAW, Plurima was open to visitors from October 7 to 11. The bookshop offered a selection of texts that move in two main directions: on one hand, the development of a new concept of matter as an active subject and agent; on the other, the increasingly urgent task of constructing an ecological vocabulary capable of describing a world in transformation.
The spaces of Plurima at Lungomare hosted, amongs books, the textile work series DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE CORNER NEXT TO THE WINDOW? by artist Barbara Prenka, a series developed with support from Lottozero, and the new bookend collection by insalata-mista.
Year
2025 – ongoing
