VAPORES

ARTISTIC AND RESEARCH PRODUCTION RESIDENCY ON THE MONNEGRE RIVER 2025 (SPAIN)

VAPORES. Artistic Production incubator, and River Sociocultural Ecosystems Observatory
Artistic and research production Residency – river Monnegre (Alicante and El Campello)
IDENSITAT + Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras + Casa de la cultura de El Campello

Deadline for applications: February 24th, 2025, 11:59 p.m. (Spanish time)

IDENSITAT, the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, and the Casa de Cultura – Ayuntamiento in El Campello, with the collaboration of the Centro d’Arte e Natura di Civitella di Licenza – L’Aquila Reale are pleased to announce the programme VAPORES, which combines artistic research residencies, located artistic interventions and mediation activities. VAPORES will be realised in three specific contexts: Alicante – El Campello, Llobregat river and Licenza (Rome). These three towns have this in common: each has a river which runs through its boundaries; Monnegre River in Alicante and El Campello, Aniene River in Licenza and Llobregat River.

INTRODUCTION

VAPORES is an artistic production programme which operates through three strands. The first is defined by the Artistic Production Incubator, creating opportunities for  two onsite artists’ residencies in Alicante – El Campello and Licenza to produce projects linked to  their respective local rivers.

The second strand, The Observatory, refers to a public programme located in the Llobregat River, consisting of artistic workshops open to public participation, and the deployment of ephemeral art interventions in the river area.

The third strand, will define a Socio-Cultural Ecosystem by means of connecting the programme within the local contexts, facilitating citizen involvement through outreach and mediation practices directed to other sociocultural actors, social organisations, or schools and informal education spaces.

As a common theme among the three  strands of the programme, the prospective projects must focus on rivers as a common good, as a space of relationship and interdependence between agents inhabiting their surroundings, thus presenting an alternative vision of other possible scenarios for commonality.

CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR THE ARTISTS’ INCUBATOR

The proposed working area in Alicante is the Monnegre River, to develop an artistic and research production residency supported by the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras and the Casa de Cultura de El Campello. The Monnegre River is a special environment, given that, unlike the Llobregat and the Aniene, it does not always have water running along its course, as it is a seasonal river. Its fluvial intermittency is essential to its biodiversity.

The aim of the residency is to produce research and artwork from May until June 2025 in the area of the Monnegre River. The results will be presented publicly in the exhibition hall at the Casa de Cultura in El Campello. Idensitat will support the artist through local mediation.

Parallel to the residency, Idensitat, in collaboration with the culture and education departments of El Campello, will organise various outreach activities in schools and informal educational spaces, establishing The Socio-cultural Ecosystem, through which to explore the Monnegre River using artistic strategies. This located mediation opens up another way of relating to the river, encouraging possible cross-connections between the artist residency and the educational environment.

The residency offers:

Work space during the residency period in the basement of Caja Blanca in the Centro Cultural Cigarreras in Alicante, 39 m² space, equipped with wifi, furniture and air-conditioning;

An exhibition room (specifications here) in the Casa de Cultura of El Campello which can also be used as a one-time working space if the need arises according to the availability of the Centro Cultural Cigarreras. This space will also be the showroom for the residency’s production which will be open to the general public during the last three weeks of the residency period. During this time, the artist must propose at least one public activity related to the project’s process, and the exhibitides artworks;

• 2,400 euros, payable by invoice, as fees for a two-month residency to be realised in May and June 2025.
• 1,200 euros, payable for production costs to be duly invoiced at the end of the residency;
• 1,600 euros for accommodation and travel expenses, to be managed directly by the artist;

All amounts include the respective taxes.

Information: https://www.idensitat.net/en/current-projects/vapores-2027/1833-vapores-cast-3