ARTIST RESIDENCY AT THE ARCHIVES: ANA CARUCCI
Virtual residency at the Tramontana digital archives
Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, Abruzzo Digital Archive, Soinumapa, Oralitat de Gasconha
Portugal, Italy, Spain, France
June – December 2026
This is an initiative of Binaural Nodar within the Creative Europe project Tramontana IV
Archaeologies of Contact – Edition No. 1: Crossing Waters
Sound piece with poetic narrative by Ana Carucci
From June to December 2026, the artist Ana Carucci is in residence with the Tramontana Network, hosted by Binaural Nodar, under the open call for Artist Residencies at the Digital Archives. Her project is based on sound and textual materials from the four digital archives in the call: the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (Binaural Nodar, Portugal), the Abruzzo Digital Archive (Bambun APS, Italy), Soinumapa (Audiolab, Basque Country) and Oralitat de Gasconha (Eth Ostau Comengés, Gascony, France).
«Archaeologies of Contact» was conceived as the first edition of an ongoing series exploring archival encounters and connections between species. This first edition, «Crossing Waters», explores the ways in which different communities perceive, name, inhabit and record their relationship with water and with the life that unfolds around it, over time and in different contexts. In the archives, different ways of naming and relating to the environment emerge, revealing more or less porous relationships between human beings, landscapes and other species.
Through a process of listening, reading and selection, the artist works with minimal fragments, gestures, scenes and descriptions that carry a sensory memory of these relationships, approaching the archive as a space where different ways of understanding the world coexist. From this selection, she will develop a series of short fragments, closer to sound poems, bringing together materials from different periods and places and, possibly, contemporary field recordings. Instead of being organized linearly, the fragments will overlap and influence one another, creating a dialogue between past and present.
Water is the common thread: it crosses territories, languages and species, and its presence in the archives makes it possible to see how these relationships take shape in different contexts. The result will be a piece composed as a constellation of fragments, each an autonomous unit and, at the same time, part of a larger whole, opening a reflection on humanity’s ever-changing sense of belonging in the natural world.
Born in Argentina in 1979, Ana Carucci is an artist trained in the visual arts with an interdisciplinary practice. Through installations, performances and editorial pieces, she explores the boundary between the strange and the familiar, the natural and the artificial. Particularly interested in how culture relates to nature, she seeks to reveal new layers of meaning in our connections with species, landscapes and objects, in work inspired by the architecture of dreams that emerges from playing with language and the memory of the senses.
She has taken part in residencies in Argentina, Spain and Germany, as well as in the programs «O Cantar das Nascentes» and «Ouvir, Tocar e Imaginar o Barro Negro», both organized by Binaural Nodar in Portugal. Her work has been presented at venues such as Seanaps Festival and 48 Stunden Neukölln (Germany), Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo MACBA, Fondo Nacional de las Artes and Centro de Arte Sonoro (Argentina), and Rota Festival (Spain), among others.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.