ARCHIVE: RESILIENCES - RESIDENCES
Interview program about artistic residency projects
An archive of interviews with organisers of artistic residency projects. The interviews attempt to reflect upon the role of residencies before and during the context of the pandemic, as well as to anticipate future adaptations. It constitutes the first part of an archive of Resilient Residencies, that is, residencies which have demonstrated their resilience under the adverse circumstances arising from the pandemic. DIES aims towards a horizontal sharing of experiences, lessons learned, and acquired knowledge. The methodology of cultural production based on residency programmes is an atomised, decentralised practice responding to the needs of the cultural sector in the 21st century. This method enables support for paid production and research, while also enabling peripheral cultural facilities to work on specific themes fitted to their context, the scale of their operation, and their local reality.
Casa Planas launched its ART RESEARCH PROGRAMME in 2019, a research residency project to revitalise the Archive of the Image of Tourism from the artist’s/researcher’s perspective/s. With an infectious enthusiasm for archival methods, we attempted to transfer a shareable and accessible tool to the digital world. Despite schemes being in place to encourage networking between these small nodes, which offer a panoramic and thoughtful vision of the places they occupy, the pandemic has forced all sectors to question themselves. In the case of the field of artistic residencies, this has entailed an epistemological questioning. The foundations upon which all residencies rest are mobility, and coexistence in physical space. The limitation of these two factors represented a crisis in all residency programming in 2020.
As of today, at the end of 2021, we feel that the lockdown was an ephemeral moment of reflection, like a mirage. It appears that the world has returned to the same pre-pandemic levels of capitalist mobility and productivity. With this archive, we wish to leave a trace of this moment of reflection and resiliency, based upon four examples of residency projects; with a vocation to continue this knowledge archive in order to make contact with, and to learn about, similar projects, and to share common experiences.
A QUEMARROPA / Míriam Martínez Guirajo - Ana Pastor
JISER - Xavier de Luca
Le BBB centre d'art - Eva Ferrés - Lucie Delepierre
CAMPO ADENTRO / Fernando García Dori
We are interested in receiving videos (maximum 10 min) of other residency experiences, in order to share them in video format. If you would like to participate in this initiative, you can write to us at
DIES es un proyecto que se realiza en colaboración entre Idensitat, Casa Planas, Le BBB Centre d’Art, La Escocesa y Universitat de Barcelona (Grupo de Investigación IMARTE) mediante el proyecto de investigación in>tra2. (2020-2021)