Supporting situated artistic research and practices, engaging with the sensory, political, social, and historical dimensions that converge in each specific context.
Fostering multidisciplinary encounters that connect sensorial production with critical thought as an exercise in political imagination.
Embracing an immersive way of workingthat values dwelling within processes over the pursuit of fixed outcomes.
Working through recycling and assemblage, in response to the endless production of information and data as decontextualized commodities that saturate our present.
International Winter Residency
A program that offers artists the possibility to share a space for production and multidisciplinary exchange between the forest and the ocean.
The residency seeks to foster and support situated artistic research and practices, with approaches that explore contemporary socio-political and environmental concerns.
Proyecto La Zona promotes networks of exchange and collaboration among artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, drawing on the possibilities offered by its specific location and the immersive nature of the residency.
Fee-based program.
Biopoetic Confabulations III
A fellowship program supported by Fundación Azara and the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Humanities at the intersection of Art and Technology at UNTREF.
The program seeks to foster and support both artistic and scientific research and practices that connect sensorial production with critical thought, and that are capable of bringing their questions and imaginaries into dialogue.
The residency is conceived as a way of experimenting with other modes of becoming together among living beings, in conversation with the territory, its materialities, and the human and more-than-human worlds that inhabit it—as a micropolitics of resistance.
Dark Skies / Re (in)Residence: The Promise of the Creatures / The Alphabet of the Wind
A network of residencies and/or micro-residencies for research and diverse practices, coordinated by invited artists to work around specific themes or approaches.
A space for collective research and experimentation across art, astronomy, botany, literature, animal studies, intersections between art and science, and writing practices in relation to the wind as a material, sensorial, historical, poetic, and creative force.
Temporary Lab 2026
An open-call residency format available year-round, welcoming individual and collective applications, as well as the possibility of overlapping with other residents.
Duration, dates, and activities are defined in dialogue with each participant, according to the needs and possibilities of both the artists and the residency.
An ideal space for performing arts groups, writers, collectives in the process of editing their projects, or artists interested in engaging with their work through new perspectives and materialities.
Open activities for the community aimed at creating spaces for gathering around shared objectives—whether cultural, political, or environmental.
A way of reconnecting with vital force and confronting the tensions of contemporary life at the points where its transformative dynamics are obstructed.
An invitation to engage in a more just social configuration of intervention within the sensorial reality that continuously affects our bodies, and which calls for ongoing collective thinking with others.
La Zona is located in the El Marquesado neighborhood, south of the city of Mar del Plata, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina—an environment with multiple layers that invite situated ways of working.
The region is a vast wetland, with lagoons and drainage basins forming streams that descend from the plateau toward the sea. Rainfall is moderate, with frequent sudestadas (southeasterly storms).
The proximity to the Atlantic Ocean—a sensitive and magnetic force in constant movement—opens up an అనంత field of possible approaches. This body of water, shaped by extractivist dynamics, appears both as a contested territory and as a universe in itself, inhabited by a rich diversity of marine fauna and vegetation.
Observable relationships within ecosystems—often grounded in interspecies cooperation and forms of mutual support—unfold as a continuous web through which to live and to rehearse other kinds of bonds.
Field observation invites us to question deeply rooted structural ideas, such as the very notion of the individual.
Dwelling outside urban centers allows for a closer engagement with climatic conditions, seasonal cycles, the movements of the cosmos of which we are part, and the regenerative processes of the soil, among others.
Attending to the vast diversity of vitalities with which we share the environment can activate multiple forms of conversation. Animal, vegetal, and even mineral expressions have much to say.
Presences of all kinds and intensities that inhabit the space between forest and ocean invite us to suspend binary thinking that opposes the organic to the inorganic, the living to the inert. They also allow us to unsettle the idea of boundaries between kingdoms and species, opening instead onto zones of passage, translation, and co-constitution.
Although the Province of Buenos Aires is one of the ecosystems most altered by human intervention, within the dune system it is still possible to encounter stretches of native coastal grassland.
Cliffs form a geological archive, holding memories of both remote and recent epochs. The region’s geography is rich in paleontological discoveries as well as archaeological traces of the peoples who have inhabited it for thousands of years.
A neighborhood laid out in the 1970s in a strategic area for the consolidation of the nation-state, where land disputes remain ongoing.
La Zona is an artist residency located on the Atlantic coast, conceived as an immersive space for the research and production of contemporary artistic practices. Its program is oriented toward fostering critical thinking, interdisciplinary work, and dialogue between art, science, territory, and technology.
The residency is coordinated by Romina Elvira and Paula Teller, both with extensive experience in teaching and in the management and circulation of interdisciplinary artistic and cultural projects from plural perspectives.
As a situated residency, La Zona proposes a way of working grounded in affective, historical, social, and political positioning. Each residency operates as a temporary community practice, where relational dynamics nurture creative processes. To this end, not only studio time but also shared cooking, walks, and the management of the commons become spaces to rehearse other modes of living together.
La Zona is part of the Argentine network of art residencies Red Quincho and the international residency network Res Artis.
