Art to Come Residencies: How to Imagine a Place to Inhabit

Socially engaged art

Arte por Venir expands thanks to the new opportunities offered by Infinito Delicias as a place for meeting and coexistence. From this new context, these residencies are launched to continue supporting practices that, from contemporary creation, contribute to imagining new horizons in the face of the challenges of the present. The programme offers a framework of coexistence for the development of artistic work that favours collaboration between artists, the Foundation, Infinito Delicias and other agents, as well as promoting forms of relationship based on shared experience.

During this first edition of the residencies, Infinito Delicias will become a home and studio for six artists whose practices, although diverse, converge in a common interest in ways of doing and sharing. Over the course of three successive cycles, they will develop projects that will explore, from complementary perspectives, different forms of coexistence, learning and relationship with the place in which they are inserted.

Infinito Delicias has an apartment and a work studio that give us the opportunity to live with artists who are going to settle in Madrid and develop a project for which they can also work with the local agent of their choice. These residencies are part of the Art to Come program designed to help us imagine other, more hopeful futures through artistic projects with transformative potential

Pepa Octavio de Toledo

Director of the Citizen Art Axis of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation in Spain

This first edition, precisely, aims to explore how a space like Infinito Delicias can be defined based on the bodies, voices, gestures and affections that inhabit it. Over the course of three successive cycles, six artists will develop projects that explore different forms of coexistence, learning and relationship with the environment from complementary perspectives, approaching the place of residence as a laboratory where other conditions of being and doing together can be imagined.

In this way, the residencies of Arte por Venir are also proposed as a space for open dialogue with the environment. On the one hand, each participant will have the opportunity to develop a collaborative process with a person who is part of the Madrid art scene, in dialogue with the local context. On the other hand, the public program that will accompany the residencies will contribute to opening this conversation to other voices and practices, extending research processes beyond the workspace and generating a shared learning community.

Cycle 1

Dates: November 10 – February
15Andrea Canepa, in collaboration with María Jerez, proposes Primer movimiento, a project that imagines the residence space based on the theory of affordances and the notion of score, understood as conditions that define possibilities for action. The proposal seeks to create a piece that remains in place and that functions as an open score for future collective experiences.

Dates: November 28 – February
28Vir Andrés Hera conceives the residence as a territory of transit and translation, where bodies, knowledge and affections are grafted onto each other. With the collaboration of Juf, his proposal will explore ideas such as “traveling between worlds”, inspired by María Lugones, activating the Mexica mythological figure of Coatlicue as a hybrid and mutable presence to think from diasporic memory, fiction and critical hospitality.

Cycle 2

Dates: November 12 – 27 and March 1 – 30
Luz Broto will generate a specific proposal from the encounter with the framework proposed by the residency and its intention to put this space in relation to the community that surrounds it. Their practice is made up of actions that, through formats such as intervention, route, or protocol, alter the everyday and make visible the forms of encounter that sustain common life.

Dates: February 16 – March
30Leonardo Bürgi Tenorio takes cooking and fermentation as a starting point to think about residency from the times of waiting, transmission and transformation. Her work investigates how the processes of collective food preparation can become places of listening, memory and hospitality.

Cycle 3

Dates: April 1 – June 30
Mariana Murcia will approach the residency as a space where knowledge is generated and circulated. Her project is inspired by the idea of “making a school” outside of production systems and by the creation of a shortwave radio as a means of connecting the living space with the neighbourhood, amplifying the voices and murmurs that make up its environment.

Dates: April 1 – June 30
Valentina Desideri will propose a residency understood as a studio, where artistic practice is confused with studio practice. During her stay, she will work on two chapters of her ongoing book (Political Therapy and Performance as Study) offering collective and individual sessions of political therapy and collaborating with performing artists from Madrid to explore how performance can become a form of shared studio.

Through ceremony, choreography, cooking or words, the projects will bring together different ways of building community, generating knowledge and activating a place that, rather than welcoming, allows itself to be transformed by those who inhabit it.

Together, these proposals make up a choral essay on what an artistic residency can be today: a permeable space that opens up to the context, that combines reflection with practice, and that understands creation as a process of relationship.

OTHER INITIATIVES OF THE ART TO COME PROGRAM

In addition, the Arte por Venir program also offers a call for grants for artists, in order to support artists with this potential, promoting projects that need support to grow or unfold their full potential. The projects that are selected will receive financial aid for their development, accompaniment through mentoring, in addition to participation in the two meetings that will be held to be publicly presented in the middle and at the end of the process, which will allow generating synergies with other agents of change in our ecosystem.

Rules of the Art to Come 2025 call for grants