Our residency programme is based on three core principles: archives, community and nature.
1: ARCHIVES
2: COMMUNITY
3: NATURE
For us, archives are not only repositories of documents and historical records. They are living sites of inquiry: collections of memories, images, gestures, stories, relationships, and traces. We approach archival practice as a creative and critical tool for artistic research.
Rooted in critical pedagogies and peer-to-peer exchange, each cohort forms an international learning community where knowledge is built together, through lectures, peer-to-peer pedagogical offerings and crianza mutua sessions.
Surrounded by nature, the residency invites you to slow down. Here, presence and enoughness shape how we learn and make together, and the landscape becomes part of the process.
About the residencies:
Archival Bootcamp is a six-day international artistic residency hosted in the Valencian countryside, Spain. Each cohort brings together up to 15 artists, writers, memory workers, and cultural practitioners from around the world.
❊ How it works
A blend of theory and practice, time together and time alone.
→ Thematic sessions. Three theory-practice sessions — Archives, Methodologies and Movement — combining shared readings, hands-on exercises and open conversation.
→ Peer-to-peer pedagogical offerings. Each participant shares a method, exercise or way of working. It’s how we introduce ourselves: through practice instead of formal presentations.
→ Mutual nurturing sessions. During the afternoons, an open space to share your project and get feedback from the group, for those who want it.
→ Self-conducted time. Siestas, walks, the river, silent reading, rest, or quiet work on your project. We take slowness seriously.
❊ Who can apply
For artists of all disciplines, researchers and archivists looking beyond traditional methods, with a project involving archival material at any stage. By archive we mean any collection of images, writings, films, sounds, objects or intangible memories that holds meaning for you. Together we activate, sense and play with them through critical, caring and experimental practices, and without the heavy academic language.
Collectives are welcome (fees apply per person). Due to the venue’s limitations, we unfortunately can’t host participants who are travelling with children or pets, or who have caregiving responsibilities during the residency.
❊ Residency fee
Archival Bootcamp is self-funded. Participants cover the residency fee and their own travel, and includes:
→ 5 nights / 6 days of accommodation in shared rooms
→ Vegetarian meals
→ All programming and the Archival Bootcamp Workbook
→ Shared workspace, communal areas, nature paths and the river
→ Our Nomadic Library, a curated collection on archives, memory and artistic practice
→ The Archival Bootcamp community WhatsApp, which connects past and current residents
The fee depends on your room. Rooms are assigned first come, first served:
→ €950: shared room for 4, bunk beds (1 room)
→ €1,050: shared room for 3, single beds (2 rooms)
→ €1,150: double room, two single beds (3 rooms)
→ €1,300: single room, one double bed (1 room)
❊ Payment and support
→ 50% to secure your spot, 50% later, by Stripe or bank transfer.
→ Need more flexibility? Write to us.
→ Need funding? We can write letters of support for grant applications and provide receipts or any documents your institution needs.
❊ Community Archive Caretakers Scholarship
Every year we offer one full scholarship for members of nonprofit organizations or grassroots collectives who care for community archives and want to bring artistic approaches into their work. Priority is given to practitioners from the Global South.
It covers the €950 residency fee, including accommodation, meals and programming. Travel costs, including transport to the masia, are not included. To apply, complete the scholarship section of the application form.
❊ Language
The residency is conducted in English, but our team also speaks Spanish, Valencià and Italian.
