May 9, 2025
Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe Cooperation project tackling socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions. Drawing on the Zapatista concept of the pluriverse—”a world where many worlds fit”—the project embraces diverse ways of knowing and living, foregrounding buen vivir (social well-being), communal interdependence and the relationships between human and more-than-human entities.
The project includes a program of residencies (SIT-RES) happening in 2026 and 2027. Selected artists and creative practitioners will be invited to engage with a specific social, geographical and historical context for one year and develop new forms of creative intervention or cultural mediation.
The application can be submitted for different institutions and contexts. Baltan Laboratories will work with Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel, a residential environment in the Netherlands housing approximately 250 people with intellectual disabilities. Lungomare will engage with the riverscapes in Bolzano, Italy. In Spain, Idensitat will focus on neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area near the mouth of the Besòs river, and ZEMOS98 will collaborate with the MediNat community, a diverse group of citizens debating the consequences of installing massive renewable energy parks in the north of the country.
The application process will be structured in two phases. In the first phase, applicants should fill out a form and submit their CV, motivation letter, portfolio and a proposal draft focused on one of the hosting institutions. Deadline for this phase is June 20th, 2025 and results will be announced by the end of July.
SIT-PLU’s organizers value approaches that leave a distinctive mark on the territory, whether manifested as a physical intervention in public space, as evidence of relationships formed during the residency or as the catalyst for ongoing processes that enrich community engagement over time. They are particularly interested in methods that involve new audiences and create a culture that embraces diversity and discursive exchange.
In the second phase, selected creative practitioners (three for each residency) will be asked to develop a more specific proposal in dialogue with the host institution. The deadline for this phase is August 24, 2025 and results will be announced by the end of September.
SIT-RES 2026 will start in January 2026 and SIT-RES 2027 in November 2026. The selected residents will receive an artist fee of €13,500 (travel excluded) and a production budget. Each institution details the terms and conditions of each specific residency/context, including the intended role of the artist, payment, production budgets and minimum requirements.
Each institution will hold online Q&A sessions to illustrate its conditions and specifics. A special presentation event will be held at Floating University in Berlin on June 6th from 7-9pm, in dialogue with the local artists community, researcher Pablo Calderón Salazar and curator Lorenzo Gerbi.
Application Info
sitplu.substack.com
Deadline: June 20, 2025; 11:59pm CET
