Language:
English, Spanish
Founded:
2016
Duration:
3 weeks
Paid by host:

The organizers aim to cover all residency costs with public funds. Please enquire about each residency so they can advise what type of grant they've managed to obtain.

Paid by artist:

Travel expenses.

Application guidelines:

Artists from all disciplines are invited to participate, as well as researchers in fields such as systems thinking, humanities, social sciences and deep and expanded ecology.

The application form can be found on their website to be filled and sent to their e-mail address. Each application will be considered and given a reply within 4 weeks. Please note that there is a limit of 4 participants per residency and once the four have been selected the application process for the year will be closed. Applicants can then be considered for the following year.

For more information to request an application form, and for any other enquiries, please email [email protected].

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Bee Time

Bee Time

Bee Time Artist Residency
Description

Bee Time artist residency explores the intersection of art and ecology. Their programs focus on researching the interrelationships between beekeeper, bee and landscape in a particular region, thus studying the influences of local culture and agriculture practices on the honeybee and vice versa. They introduce participants to concepts of bee centred beekeeping, and applied systems thinking. Working out of the understanding of the honeybee colony as a super-organism – a being with many individual bees comprising a unified consciousness, participants have the opportunity to practice self-organising social models inspired by hive consciousness by working together in a non hierarchical way.

Outcome

Artists applying to this programme need to know that they will be immersed in communal living as well as working in a way that may be atypical to other residency programmes, in the sense that there are many shared experiences and programmed activities with the rest of the participants within a loose, emerging schedule.

Studio Information

The hosts have four large studio spaces in old Moorish water mills, next to a Roman aquaduct, various waterfalls, and swimming holes. They also work outside a lot in apiaries and in the outdoor spaces by the mills. Artists can let the hosts know what their needs are in terms of spaces and they can endeavor to find them the most appropriate space. There is a common kitchen space where hosts and artists cook and eat communally.

Accommodation Information

The hosts rent a house in the village which has four large bedrooms, with shared occupancy.

Technical Information

There is an extensive library of bee related books for artist's use. The hosts can provide technical assistance, printing, and certain materials, subject to prior discussion.

Location

Santa Lucia is a village in Southern Andalucia, 50 km from Cadiz. Participants will encounter a relatively remote area of Spain which is dealing with considerable issues of unemployment, migration from north Africa, agricultural degradation, and a growing economic reliance on tourism. Through exploring the area’s traditional, as well as commercial, agricultural practices, participants will be able to engage with the complex ecological issues local communities are facing.

Contact information

Santa Lucia s/n
11150 Vejer de la Frontera CA
Spain

Email
beetimers [at] gmail.com
Phone
34699504280
Website
http://www.beetime.net/en