Immersion residencies

Each of the eight artists collaborated with a private firm during an immersive ten-day residency, engaging with and observing the daily activities of workers at sites including the Joseph Perrier Champagne House and the Fila Arches fine art paper mill in France; the salt marshes of Ston in Croatia; a maritime wooden boat restoration workshop and a professional fisherman, a boat building education in Helsingør, Denmark; and a cod processing plant at the port of Ílhavo, Portugal.

This period was dedicated to:
be immersed in one activity sector,
discover and meet the private firm and their workers,
to be fed with everything that makes up the techniques of the body at work - be inspired by the repetitive gestures and the traditional, the manual know-how of the workers,
translate the material collected inside the company into a common/public space around the company or in a place that resonates.
The end of the residency was also an opportunity to present and transmit to the company’s personnel the artistic work and/or integrate them in the artistic process.

Throughout their time in the private firm, the artists were supported by external guidance: a local referent with in-depth knowledge of the company’s specific context and its surrounding territory, as well as occasional visits from an artistic mentor and one of the two researchers in art and ecology who accompanied the project and supported the artists.