ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Open call for artistic projects
from 12 December 2025 to 31 March 2026
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 is carrying 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, organizing 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 online 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)
Archivio Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga (Abruzzo, Italy)
Artistic projects can use any creative technique (sound, video, performance, fictional text/voice, mixed-media, etc.), should relate to one or several of the archives and 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 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 31 March 2026 and include the following elements:
1. Full name, artistic name, postal address, phone / WhatsApp, email and website.
2. A text describing an art project specifically conceived for this artist residency program, with a maximum of 7.500 characters with spaces.
3. 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.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.