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SOUND ARTISTS RESIDENCE

The artists’ residence is an independent and experimental space located in the Catalunya northeastern region of Les Alberes, Alt Empordà. By creating practices based on the embodiment of nature and technology, it aims to transfer the contemporary needs of technological society to ancestral nature and paradisaic environments. The residence promotes an ecological use of technology and seeks the recovery of rural heritage.

We welcome artists from different disciplines: Digital, Composition, Music, Sound Art, Sonic practices, Electro-acoustic, Acoustic Ecology, Acoustic, Live Coding, Field Recording, Listening, Sound-walks, Sound, and Radio.

HIKING ITINERARIES:
1 Barbes del Boc Peaks 742m
2 Mines de Colera
3 Mas Tarragona Farmhouse s.XIX
4 Sant Quirze de Colera Monastir s.X
5 Sant Miquel de Colera Church s.XII
6 Puig D’Esquers Peaks 606m
7 Mas Patiras Farmhouse s.XIX
8 Olivar Can Plana
9 Mas Pellich
10 Coma D’Infern
11 Platja del Borró

TOOLS & WORKSHOPS
1 Field Recordings
2 Listen to the Ionosphere
3 Listening to Bat Sounds
4 Solar Sound Bots
5 Hydrophones

WHERE
Colera, Girona, Spain
ZIP code: 17496
Area: 24.4 km²
Elevation: 10 m
Weather: 22 ° C, Wind NW at 25 mph (40 km / h), 54% Humidity
Population: 532 (2014)
Community: Catalonia

LOCATION
• Coordinates: 42°24’23” N 3°09’16” E (map)
• Altitude 10 m
• Distances 74 km to Girona, 28 km from Figueres

FACILITIES
• Accommodation and studio space
• Common-use kitchen, common-use living room and dining room area.
• Electricity, water, Wi-Fi access
• Linen and towels

DURATION 7 to 10 days – fees paid by the artist – we don’t offer any grants but we offer a formal letter of invitation for applications elsewhere.

APPLICATION

By invitation and/or send to laura@netzzz.net

Expression of Interest (PDF): Personal data: name, email, mobile, address + Bio + Portfolio + Project Proposal

Project Proposal: A one-page description (500 words) of the project the applicant would develop during their residence. The proposal must clearly describe the research topic and its outcome: a digital artefact belonging to any discipline: Digital, Composition, Music, Sound Art, Sonic practices, Electroacoustic, Acoustic, Live Coding, Field Recording, Sound, and Radio. The candidate will be held accountable for the delivery of the proposed outcome.

EXPECTED OUTCOME

Donation of one piece (digital) for the online archive, future exhibitions and/or events.

CURATORIAL TEXT & AIMS

Re-framing Nature & Technology: Facing the contemporary environmental crisis, this project was born from the need to rethink nature and re-conceptualize technology as an open-source tool for communities. Through the residence, we want to re-conceptualize nature and approach it dynamically through cultural activism and critical thinking.

Influenced by a media archaeology approach and re-framing technology through open source and community practices, we can critically view technology as an embedded practice from resource extraction to e-waste production. Thinking about technology critically will allow us to formulate a critical view of landscapes, nature, and technology. We will use open-source hardware and software and work with DIY ethos in workshops.

Another aspect of the residence is engaging nature and landscape through walking. For us, walking has become an art. Also influenced by situationists who drifted through the industrial cities, we are now abandoning cities to return to rural areas and natural environments. Thus, our activities become psycho-geophysical situationist.

We aim to approach the concepts of nature and technology critically and offer a contemporary version of environmental thinking and climate crisis.

 

LEADERS, DIRECTORS & CURATORS: