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FIBER RE:SOURCE Residency
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Description
FIBER is a Dutch interdisciplinary organisation which presents new developments in audiovisual art, digital culture and the experimental and deeper corners of electronic music. The team works year round with a vibrant network of artists, designers, researchers and developers, who aspire to introduce mind-bending experiences to a broad audience. Special attention goes out to the support of up and coming talents across numerous creative disciplines.
RE:SOURCE OPEN CALL 2: The Sanctuary
FIBER x Semibreve | 6 - 16 November 2023
Continuing with the second part of our Reassemble Residency, FIBER Festival is now collaborating with the Portuguese Semibreve team inviting artistic makers and thinkers to respond to the second RE:SOURCE Open Call: The Sanctuary.
This open call encourages artists, designers, and artistic researchers based in the Netherlands to conduct artistic research around the captivating scenery encompassed within the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Gerês-Xurês, located in the North Region of Portugal as well as the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain. This will lead to the creation of an art installation.
The territory’s importance as a site of natural and cultural heritage is recognized by UNESCO adding it to The World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The varieties of landscapes – reaching from mountain ranges to rivers and low valleys – as well as various microclimates encompassed within the area enable an impressive diversity of species and habitats. These qualities also allow the reserve to be an ideal home for numerous migratory species, offering them refuge and safety outside of their natural habitats.
Qualities of interconnectedness and symbiosis, allow diverse species of animals and plants to thrive; the territory also embodies an element of separation, as it hosts the border of two countries, Portugal and Spain. Divided by man-made borders and united by nature, culture, and history, the site offers interdisciplinary perspectives on and guidance towards dealing with changes and interactions between social and ecological systems.
THE SANCTUARY
A sanctuary is more than just a physical space, it provides refuge, comfort, and safety to those seeking shelter. Originally, the term referred to the idea that something important – something holy or someone loved – was kept within the boundaries of a sanctuary. Focusing on the preservation of something or someone. Quickly the meaning got extended to places of safety and protection from various possible threats. And within a sanctuary, there is balance, where diverse species cooperate, allowing the ecosystem to thrive, and where knowledge and secrets are kept.
Understanding the Sanctuary as the beginning of an artistic exploration into histories of transformation, regeneration, and conservation, what can we learn from the site for a more sustainable interaction between us humans and nature? Can we trace, visualize or speculate on the many symbiotic relationships that are preserved here? Guiding us towards future imaginaries of our society and the natural world around us, what can we take from illuminating and understanding the entanglement between the biosphere reserve’s inhabitants and the intricate life they create? Are you an artistic maker and thinker interested in exploring these themes and have you already done research into the topics, connecting them to bigger questions around the current climate emergency? Then we encourage you to apply to our second open call!
Outcome
Research and a physical installation developed during this residency will be showcased from 15 to 16 December 2023 in Braga, Portugal. Please keep in mind that the work is not shown during the Semibreve Festival in October but within the context of a different event. Stay tuned for more information!
When applying, you are asked to work with / reflect on the following areas of research:
- Ecological reality & biodiversity of the reserve
- Specific plant or animal species
- Conservation, preservation & regeneration
- Communication and cooperation between these diverse species
- Transborder territory
- Future imaginaries of interconnectedness
Feel free to focus on one or more of these areas as well as build on them to derive new angles.
Technical Information
Dates:
First Site Visit | 2 – 4 October
Residency | 6 – 16 November
On-site workspace
Opportunity to meet and learn from people who know more about the area and its unique
Guidance by the FIBER and Semibreve teams
Call Open:
Open: 4 July 2023
Deadline: 6 August 2023
First site visit: 2 – 4 October 2023
Residency: 6 – 16 November 2023
Work Presentation: 15 – 16 December 2023
Location
The Semibreve Festival, organised since 2011 by AUAUFEIOMAU has established itself as an inescapable event in the current national and international exploratory electronic music scene. Under programs designed from the local and heritage specificities of the city of Braga, respecting principles of inclusiveness, diversity and community, the Semibreve presented, over the years, shows, orders and installations by some of the most relevant artists today, also maintaining an active role in the promotion of digital art in the North of Portugal.
AUAUFEIOMAU is a cooperative that develops its own programming initiatives, especially focused on music and sound. Activities such as the SEMIBREVE Festival, Ocupa Festival, Ciclo da Fragua, and working with partners like GNRation, which always aim to stimulate new areas of sound exploration, promote opportunities for artists to develop their projects, relate to the communities where they work, thus increasing interest in the arts.
The Gerês-Xurés Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (RBTGX) was declared on May 27, 2009, by UNESCO, and is located in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) and the North Region (Portugal). With an area of 267,958 ha, of protected territory in two natural spaces divided by borders, but united by the characteristics of nature and culture. With a dense hydrographic network, ecosystems in a good state of conservation, fauna and flora species of exceptional interest for the conservation of nature and biodiversity, the Geres Xurés Transfrontier Biosphere Reserve constitutes in many aspects the differences that enrich our natural heritage and cultural, a unique reality that requires permanent collaboration in defence and revaluation.
