A range of activities that encourages research and creative practices based on the relationship between different investigations or disciplines.
An immersive approach to work for which it is necessary to dwell in the space, or better yet, to linger. Explorations hosted by the remoteness of the urban and isolation, where the forces of the environment become aesthetic presences. An opportunity to open a temporary zone in which to think, investigate and allow processes to emerge.
Work in the key of recycling and assembly from the infinite production of information and data without linkage or memory that saturate our time.
Winter at Pastizal Costero / Spring at Pastizal Costero
Residency of creation and interdisciplinary encounter in a rural and maritime environment to research, think and create immersively. The local coastal landscape is a source of bio-inspiration for its possibility to be approached from multiple perspectives and to observe interspecies relationships. The call is addressed to artists from all over the world and from all disciplines, curators, researchers or writers, with the aim of sharing, activating and developing projects / research in an environment away from the urban and in contact with the forces of the earth.
Group residencies of creation where artists from different disciplines share activities of exploration of the territory sponsored by the remoteness of the urban centers and the isolation where to gestate, think and create immersively. Aimed at artists, scientists, activists of different practices and researchers. In La Zona opens the possibility to slow down time, let the forest, the sea, the wind become sensitive presences and allow creative processes to emerge.
A network of residencies and micro-residencies of creation in collaboration with other artists or artistic collectives where we will work around specific themes or disciplines. Time-space retreats to explore specific relationships. Art, astronomy, botany and literature, performing arts are some of the proposals.
La Zona, with the support of the Azara Foundation and the Higher Diploma in Environmental Humanities at the crossroads of Art and Technology of the UNTREF, calls for Biopoetic Confabulations II. Addressed to artists, researchers and scientists to encourage transdisciplinary dialogues that approach artistic processes and regions of Argentina as micropolitics of resistance.
Festivals based on the idea of assembling and crossing disciplines open to the general public, where participation and the crossing of sensitive experiences, other ways of perceiving, feeling and relating to each other are encouraged.
The Zone is located 39 km from the city of Mar del Plata in the Marquesado Forest Reserve. It is characterized by the following features:
We are located about two thousand meters from the Atlantic Ocean, a sensitive and magnetic force in permanent movement. The region is a large wetland with lagoons and drainage basins in the form of streams that flow down from the plateau to the sea. We have intermediate level rainfall and frequent southeast winds.
Rich and extensive inventory of forms, functions and processes of nature to observe, recognize and inspire us.
The collaborative way in which different species of animals, plants and fungi relate to each other has a lot to teach us. Relationships based on inter-species cooperation and solidarity to live and protect oneself in case of external dangers.
Observation in the field confronts us to question structural and deep-rooted ideas. The notion of the individual loses meaning as we observe the inter-species communication and connection that exists, especially underground.
Thinking about bioinspiration not from a materialistic or result-oriented logic, but perceiving ourselves as participants in these processes.
Systems of interspecies relationships that reinforce the alliances between bacteria, fungi, plants, animals, insects that constitute the biosphere.
Presences of all types and qualities that inhabit the forest and its different levels of intensity and magic.
Project to repopulate with native species that regenerate the soil and shelter birds and insects.
This geographical region, along with the ecosystems that inhabit it, is the area of the country that has suffered the greatest alterations by the intervention of the human species. There are only a few places with waterlogged or saline soils, with low productivity, that still conserve their original characteristics.
A system of cliffs that emerge below a cover of extensive and powerful dunes. The walls cut into these deposits constitute a sort of chronicle book where a history of several million years becomes visible. Ever-changing maritime views, unrepeatable sunsets and sunrises over the sea and the forest, thick and enveloping fogs.
Skeletal remains of at least five species of hominid ancestors from the Tertiary Era have been recorded in the region. Much closer in history, several native communities inhabited these lands until they were displaced.
On the beach are the ruins of a seaside resort that holds nefarious stories of the last civil-military dictatorship.
Proyecto La Zona began its activity in November 2022 and since then more than 50 national and international artists have participated. The residency is coordinated by Romina Elvira and Paula Teller, both with extensive experience in teaching and management for the circulation of interdisciplinary artistic and cultural projects from plural perspectives. La Zona is part of the network of Argentinean art residencies Red Quincho and of the organization of international art residencies Res Artis.
As a situated residency, it proposes an immersive way of working, in which artists are invited to dwell or de-dwell in the processes. The possibility of opening a temporary zone where to think, investigate and allow processes to finally emerge.
