Our residency programme is based on three core principles: archives, community and nature.
1: ARCHIVES
2: COMMUNITY
3: NATURE
We love the archive in all its forms. Photos, found footage, letters, fragments of the past. Activating these documentos through artistic practice and creative dynamics is at the heart of the programme.
Our residencies are a learning community that stimulates artistic, collaborative and conceptual creation from a shared intimacy. Situated in critical pedagogy, we propose a dynamic that questions the who, what, when, where and how of things.
The residency proposes a week of disconnection in nature. Through simple exercises, we encourage a reconnection with other rhythms and times, nourishing our creative processes.
About the residencies:
Archival Bootcamp is a weekly nomadic artistic residency. It gather artists, curators and creative professionals from around the world. Combining theory, practice and spare time, we anchor on the power of archives through artistic practice, critical memory and creative writing.
Situated in critical pedagogies, we propose learning communities to produce collective knowledge from our singularities: geopolitical anchorages, ways of doing and transdisciplinary knowledge.
The residency offers:
→ Creative freedom and practical strategies for engaging with archives, using artistic methods and alternative approaches to image-making, memory, and writing.
→ The opportunity to join an international network of artists and creatives.
→ Access to a curated selection of contemporary references, artists, and theories focused on archives, critical memory, and artistic practice.
How it works?
The residency offers a dynamic blend of individual and collective work, incorporating both theoretical and practical approaches.
→ Morning Sessions:
Each morning will focus on thematic topics (archives, origins, memory, affects, and movement), with activities including:
❊ Writing routines
❊ Texts exploring memory, art, and archives
❊ Viewing and discussing works by other artists and archival projects
❊ Exercises centered on the creative process
❊ Practical activities to activate our archives
→ Afternoon Sessions:
In the afternoons, we shift to working on our personal projects, drawing inspiration from diverse methods and perspectives.
→ Residency Wrap-Up:
The final two days are dedicated to presenting and reflecting on the processes we’ve explored throughout the residency.
→ Pre-Residency Materials:
One month before the residency begins, we will send a folder containing materials and texts that will inform and guide our sessions.
Artists, researchers, activists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, curators, archivists, librarians who have an artistic project with archival material, at any stage of production. By archive we mean any collection of images, writings, films, sounds or objects that form an affective and meaningful corpus, eager to be activated and explored. Between ten and fifteen artists are selected, depending on the venue.