Valencian Community Museums Consortium finalizes call for creative residences Resident Culture with the choice 10 projects related to cultural mediation, research and artistic production will be developed in the first half 2024 with total complement 93,410 euros.
In this new call, four research projects in the town of Castelló de la Plana, two cultural mediation projects in València and Four artistic production projects in the province of Alicantedistributed – two in each municipality – Between Alicante and Santa PolaA town that has joined the Resident Culture network thanks to CMCV’s collaboration with the Maritime Museum. Projects taken for this town Relationship to the Mediterranean context and its contemporary challenges as a thematic framework.
The following statements were included in the 2024 call published in October: consensus total 238 projects48 in research (Castelló), 92 in cultural mediation (València) and 98 for artistic production (67 in Alicante and 31 in Santa Pola). The call with the highest increase in participation was the call for cultural mediation; From 55 projects in 2023, this number has almost doubled to 92. Additionally, the usual presence of groups and associations in this method increases, as entire projects are singled out for collective authorship.
Ten selected projects
Consortium of Museums was elected pre-project Thriving in the Valencian Community. in AlicanteIt will be developed in cooperation with the Las Cigarreras cultural center within the scope of artistic production. two to three months residenceWhere projects are selected house with three keysrelated to Tana Garrido (Portugal, Bizkaia) and Cosmesis: temporary skinrelated to Raquel Buj (Palencia).
new headquarters Santa Pola Maritime Museum will be welcome Between March and May residence of projects Crystallizer. Uncovering the saltwater flows of Vinalopóof the collective Volume Four (Alicante) and 9327 km away from my homerelated to Beatriz and Hector Millón (Mexico – Valencia).
In the scope of cultural mediation projects were selected track, related to Maria Laudes and Guiu Gimeno (Alzira, Valencia) and The menu of the rural city, related to Irene Verdeguer Olmos and Irene Santamaria Aguilar (Guadassuar – L’Eliana, Valencia). Residences will be developed Center del Carme Contemporary Culture, (CCCC) from Valencia for a period of five months.
Inside kalelonCultura Resident, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, offers: research residencies. Projects selected for the three-month residency: To think is to guess, related to Bruno Delgado Ramo (Seville), Formation and deformations of waterrelated to Maria Vidal Soria (Valencia), just a drawingrelated to Taxi Ardanaz Ruiz (Bilbao, Bizkaia), Arapogiansrelated to Mar Navarro Llombart (La Vall d’Uixo).
More projects from outside
For the first time in its history, Cultura Resident has more projects from outside the Valencian Communityemphasizing the presence of large numbers of people other autonomous communities, Latin America and Europeespecially in the call for artistic production.
dominant thematic axes These are the relationships we build in 2024 the challenges of today and modernity, It is processed from mythological, ritual, dream-like or research of elements of past cultures and ancestral knowledge.
There are also plenty projects related to water and sea and river contexts, as well as the tools of speculative fiction that bring more and better care and understanding of the planet, people and different realities.
The profile of the presented projects is as follows: interdisciplinarycombining sociology, architecture, fashion, critical design or agricultureRecommendations addressing institutionalism, among others, have fallen by the wayside between life and visual arts.
“With the call for Resident Culture we want to encourage new views and voices covering both artistic production and other relevant areas of contemporary creative processes, such as research or mediation, and through this call the Consortium of Museums weaves a web of creation that structures our region. From north to south,” said the Consorci de Museus deputy art director, Vicente Samper.
About Resident Culture
It was promoted by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community (CMCV) under the direction of the previous responsible person, Cultura Resident José Luis Pérez Pont. One of the largest and most comprehensive programs at the national level It targets agents associated with contemporary creation.
The program supports trial and innovation suggestions in the field creation And producing intellectual and artistic who are in the process of research and require support for their production or who work in specific contexts or communities.