VAPORES / 2025
Artistic Production incubator and River Sociocultural Ecosystems Observatory
Artistic and research production Residency - river Monnegre (Alicante and El Campello)
IDENSITAT + Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras + Casa de la cultura de El Campello
Idensitat, the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, and the Casa de Cultura -Ayuntamiento in El Campello, with the collaboration of the Centro d'Arte e Natura di Civitella di Licenza - L'Aquila Reale are pleased to announce the programme VAPORES, which combines artistic research residencies, located artistic interventions and mediation activities. VAPORES will be realised in three specific contexts: Alicante - El Campello, Llobregat river and Licenza (Rome). These three towns have this in common: each has a river which runs through its boundaries; Monnegre River in Alicante and El Campello, Aniene River in Licenza and Llobregat River.
INDEX
INTRODUCTION
OPEN CALL
WORK CONTEXT ON THE MONNEGRE RIVER: ARTISTIC RESIDENCY AND EDUCATIONAL CENTERS
PROJECT IN RESIDENCY
INTRODUCTION
VAPORES is an artistic production programme which operates through three strands. The first is defined by the Artistic Production Incubator, creating opportunities for two onsite artists’ residencies in Alicante - El Campello and Licenza to produce projects linked to their respective local rivers.
The second strand, The Observatory, refers to a public programme located in the Llobregat River, consisting of artistic workshops open to public participation, and the deployment of ephemeral art interventions in the river area.
The third strand, will define a Socio-Cultural Ecosystem by means of connecting the programme within the local contexts, facilitating citizen involvement through outreach and mediation practices directed to other sociocultural actors, social organisations, or schools and informal education spaces.
As a common theme among the three strands of the programme, the prospective projects must focus on rivers as a common good, as a space of relationship and interdependence between agents inhabiting their surroundings, thus presenting an alternative vision of other possible scenarios for commonality.
WORK CONTEXT ON THE MONNEGRE RIVER: ARTISTIC RESIDENCY AND EDUCATIONAL CENTERS
The proposed working area in Alicante is the Monnegre River, to develop an artistic and research production residency supported by the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras and the Casa de Cultura de El Campello. The Monnegre River is a special environment, given that, unlike the Llobregat and the Aniene, it does not always have water running along its course, as it is a seasonal river. Its fluvial intermittency is essential to its biodiversity.
The aim of the residency is to produce research and artwork from May until June 2025 in the area of the Monnegre River. The results will be presented publicly in the exhibition hall at the Casa de Cultura in El Campello. The residency is conceived in two phases, where the last three weeks of June the exhibition hall will be open and the project can continue to intervene there if necessary, having to propose at least one public action related to the production or activation of the project during the weeks in which the hall is open. Idensitat will support the artist through local mediation.
Parallel to the residency, Idensitat, in collaboration with the culture and education departments of El Campello, will organise various outreach activities in schools and informal educational spaces, establishing The Socio-cultural Ecosystem, through which to explore the Monnegre River using artistic strategies. This located mediation opens up another way of relating to the river, encouraging possible cross-connections between the artist residency and the educational environment.
A Texture Map of Monnegre River, by Beatriz Freire, is a sensory mapping of the Monnegre River, focusing on its visible and invisible textures. Inspired by Annea Lockwood’s A Sound Map of the Hudson River, the project does not attempt a conventional cartography, but rather a poetic and material exploration of the river landscape. Through techniques such as photography, video, frottage, or the collection of materials, the project translates trace elements of the river such as: stones, sediments, vegetation, and evidence of water flow into graphic patterns and textile notations. In addition to the visual aspect, the project emphasises soundscapes, captured using a recorder, a contact microphone, and a hydrophone. These recordings will be analysed with spectrographic software and converted into graphics which, in turn, will be translated into textile structure codes. The aim is to generate a sensory archive which creates a bridge between sound, image, and matter, proposing new ways of reading and inhabiting the environment, decolonising the senses, and opening up new forms of perception.
Bio
Beatriz Freire (Portugal) is a visual and textile artist who explores the convergence between the textile and filmic worlds, integrating materials and processes from both fields, as well as using textile codes and notations as an alternative form of communication. Her approach transcends the traditional uses of weaving, transforming it into a medium for interpreting the world. Her works have been selected for festivals such as ISEA 2025 (Seoul), SEMINCI, (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico, Festival Proyector, Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada, Doc's Kingdom. She is a graduate of the Master LAV, Laboratorio Audiovisual de Creación y Práctica Contemporánea (Madrid).
