Archival Bootcamp Residency

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Archival Bootcamp is an artistic residency focused on archival research. An invitation to explore creative approaches and practical strategies for archival projects, using artistic methods to image-making, memory, and writing. Participants will also have the chance to connect with an international network of artists and creatives, all while spending a week immersed in nature, surrounded by mountains and the river in the Valencian Community.

Category:

Archival artistic residency  

Eligibility:

Artists, researchers, activists, writers, filmmakers, photographers, curators, archivists, and librarians with an archival project in any discipline, at any stage of development. For this edition, up to 13 artists per group will be accepted.

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  • Residency Periods: 22 – 27 July & 29 July – 3 August 2025
  • Open Call: 1 February – 17 March 2025 11:55 PM UTC +1 
  • Selection announcement:1 February – 17 February

Application fee There is no fee for application. In case of selection, the residency fee es 800 € per person

Archival Bootcamp is the artistic residency initiative of trabajo práctico, a project founded in 2020 and led by camila kevorkian, an educator and artist-researcher with over thirteen years of experience exploring the intersection of performativity, archives, and critical pedagogies through affective methodologies. Trabajo práctico is a learning community that nurtures artistic, collaborative, and conceptual creation through shared intimacy. Through workshops, study groups, and individualized project mentoring, we focus on creative processes grounded in archival and writing practices. Anchored in critical pedagogies, we foster dynamics that embrace vulnerability, encouraging collective critical thinking within our communities.

By archival project, we refer to any collection of photos, objects, memories, writings, films that form an affective and meaningful corpus, eager to be activated and explored. In our latest edition, we featured projects based on family archives and memories, community and oral traditions, photographers with personal photo collections, among others.

Website link: https://archivalbootcamp.com/

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