[co-creation residencies]

2025 calendar

ARCHIVAL BOOTCAMP is a nomadic artistic residency, exploring the power of archives through creative practice, in a natural environment.

🇦🇷 7-12 de April, Mendoza, Argentina [OPEN CALL: 10 January to 15 February]
🇪🇸 August, Valencia, España
🇦🇺 October, Sydney, Australia

about the residencies

⛺ ARCHIVES CAMP is an invitation to nurture and amplify our archival projects. Seven days to explore processes of image, memory and writing, between the river and nature. Through artistic and affective methodologies, between 10 and 15 artists will work on their material, rehearsing other practices of editing and writing, in a caring and scommunity-learning environment. A temporary community to read, enrich and experience other ways of doing with others, starting from our own projects.

The residence will have a mixed structure. In the mornings, we will set up a space for:
❊ Morning writing routine
❊ Reading texts about memory, art and archive
❊ Viewing of references
❊ Writing about creative processes
❊ Exercises relating to our own material
❊ Exercises on affective memory practice

In the afternoons, sensitised by other ways of doing and perspectives, working on our personal projects.

To Whom?

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 whole, eager to be activated and explored. Up to 13 artists/proposals will be accepted.

What is included?

✽ Workshops in the mornings, specifically designed according to the selected projects
✽ Accommodation at Masía La Toba - Single bed in a shared room, bed linen, personal towel + towel for the river
✽ All meals vegetarian menu, from local producers

the farmhouse:

In keeping with the archival topic, our residency will take place in the old Molino La Toba, which was in operation until the end of the 1960s. In the past, this mill provided grain milling services to local farmers. As a result of the depopulation of the area and the abandonment of the mill, it was left in ruins, and in 1981 the artisanal reconstruction began, using footage materials from the surrounding area.

For more than twenty years, La Toba has been a pioneer in the integration of the rural environment, with an approach based on respect for nature and traditional craftsmanship.

La Toba began its journey as a retreat house in 2005 and continues to this day with a commitment to service and hospitality. Its main mission is to create a self-sufficient and sustainable model of living and to provide the means for hundreds of people to have transformative experiences in contact with nature.