｡･:˚:✧｡ Staying with the Archive ｡･:˚:✧｡
A 4-Week Online Booster Mentorship Circle
Staying with the Archive draws from Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble, where she invites us to move beyond individualism and linear solutions, emphasizing making-kin through relations, responsibility toward others (human and non-human), and imaginative ways of thinking.
In this edition, we ask:
ꕥ What do we need to listen for in our project: its rhythms, resistances, needs, and desires?
ꕥ How can we build strategies that sustain our work creatively, over time, without exhaustion or urgency?
ꕥ How might our projects be nourished through collective thinking, shared references, and (re)imagined futures?
Whether you are:
⌇preparing your project for our Archival Bootcamp Residency
⌇continuing a process that began in one of our programs, or
⌇seeking a space to accompany your artistic research,
this short, intensive online mentorship circle offers a supportive and focused container for working with your archival project.
👉 Designed for artists, writers, archivists, and researchers working with archival, memory-based, or critical image practices, at all levels and stages of experience, and conceived as a booster format, the program offers a structured yet flexible framework to help you move forward with clarity, consistency, and care.
It is a space to slow down with your archival materials while:
彡 developing sustainable working rhythms
彡 identifying and systematizing your own artistic research methodologies
彡 defining concrete next steps
❤️🩹 Participants receive individual, project-centered mentorship, along with guided exercises, curated readings, and reflective tools that support both conceptual development and everyday creative practice. Through a combination of one-on-one sessions (1) and small group meetings (3), the circle fosters accountability, critical dialogue, and shared learning within an intimate international cohort.
⚡ This mentorship is ideal for those seeking focused guidance, structured support, and a clear container to advance an existing project over a short and intensive period. ⚡
🧩 What you will receive:
✴ (1) One 1-hour individual mentorship sessions focused on your specific archival project
✴ (3) Three 1.5-hour group small group sessions for exchange, feedback, and collective reflection
✴ Curated readings, prompts, and practical exercises
✴ Tools to build sustainable structure, working habits, and project clarity
✴ Access to our Discord community with participants from all past editions, shared resources, and continued dialogue within an international cohort.
⏳ Duration: 4 weeks, starting on May
🌍 Language: English / Spanish
🌀 Investment - Sliding Scale:
2026 Residents and Former Residents-----> 280€ ($323 USD)
Discount Price-----> 320€ ($370 USD)
Regular Price-----> 350€ ($405 USD)
📅 Calendar:
Week 1: Sunday group meeting — subject to time zone availability
Week 2: Individual weekday session
Week 3: Sunday group meeting — subject to time zone availability
Week 4: Sunday group meeting — subject to time zone availability
👥 Limited spots to ensure close engagement and meaningful support
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💬 TESTIMONIALS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
"Cami has a rare ability to weave multiple worlds and fields of experience into an authentically shared space. She helped me slow down, think more practically, and strengthen my sense of self-accountability. This support transformed how I approached my work, making the process feel both grounded and generative. Cami has an extraordinary capacity to hold complexity—multiple projects, layered identities, and many cultural ways of being. I’m deeply grateful to have found her. I would recommend this mentorship to any interdisciplinary thinker or artist seeking true peer-to-peer support."
Tiana Arredondo - Former Mentorship Participant & Former 2025 Resident
"As an artist, mentorship with Cami provided a space to connect with other practitioners, each with their own unique projects. Since I was developing a personal documentary film that needed more nurturing, Cami provided me the space to reflect on my own process, and align my thoughts with my project. Even when the answers lie within us, sometimes we need a medium to connect us with our own selves to help realise our authentic artistic vision."
Purandhya Sharma - Former Mentorship Participant
"This mentorship encouraged me to spend time with my project, be open to experimentation, and rethink how to work with archival materials in ways that are critical, stiauted, and (sometimes) fun. Thank you Cami and Archival Bootcamp!"
Alice-Anne Psaltis - Former Mentorship Participant