Flowing Streams is a multi-residency project in rural areas of Romania exploring local approaches to the cultural ecology of water that takes place over 10–14 days at various dates between June to August 2024.
Flowing Streams is designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves seven cultural institutions operating in Romania, each engaged in supporting one residency:
- British Council
- Czech Centre
- Embassy of the Netherlands
- Goethe-Institut
- Italian Institute for Culture
- Polish Institute
- Fundația9
The project was framed by this consortium of European partners, in collaboration with curator Adelina Luft.
In the context of the climate emergency and shrinking mobility opportunities for pan-European exchange, Flowing Streams aims to harbour meaningful collaborations between artists, architects, anthropologists, hydrologists or community organisers and the local partnering organisations from Romania. The programme intends to create space for co-learning, mutual listening and exchange of knowledge and practices, centred around the theme of water.
A total of seven European practitioners, selected through the open call, will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the daily life of the Romanian village and explore the context of water specific to each location, hosted and mediated by a partnering organisation.
The resident must organise one public event during the residency that will take place in relation to the local community or the residency space. The costs of the event will be supported from the production budget.
The resident is encouraged to keep a journal in any type of format: texts, audio-visuals, objects, drawings, sketches, new works, or others. The materials gathered from each participant will be selected by the programme curator and included in a final publication in autumn 2024.
Eligibility
The project encourages applications from practitioners with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and artistic approaches – interdisciplinary and socially engaged artists, architects/landscape architects, hydrologists, anthropologists, or community organisers – with a minimum of 5 years of experience in their respective fields. Please check the eligibility of applicants for each host organisation.
Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents from: Czech Republic, Italy, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and Romania.
Only individual applicants can apply. Selected residents can travel with their partners.
Support provided
The residency covers travel costs from the applicant’s country of residence, accommodation within the premises of the host organisation and some meals, a fee of 700 EUR and a 300 EUR production budget.
