Artist residencies at digital archives from European mountain regions
www.re-tramontana.org

Open call for artistic projects from 12 December 2025 to 31 March 2026

The Tramontana network was set up in 2011 with the driving idea of collecting and promoting aspects of the intangible cultural heritage of Europe’s mountains and rural societies. The network currently has eleven partners working in mountain contexts of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Poland and Albania.

A call is open for artistic proposals to be developed online from a reflection on sound and/or audiovisual documents included in four archives of the Tramontana Network:

Oralitat de Gasconha (Pyrenees, France)
Soinumapa (Basque Country, Spain)
Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (Portugal)
Archivio Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga (Abruzzo, Italy)

Artistic projects can use any creative technique (sound, video, performance, fictional text/voice, mixed-media, etc.), should relate to one or several of the archives and also reflect and/or express one or more of the following themes:

– Agropastoralism and transhumance.
– Water cultures (rivers, springs, fountains, water mills, irrigation systems, myths and symbolism linked to water, etc.).
– Social and cultural mobility in mountain areas.
– Agricultural/mountain landscapes and food production

All inquiries about this open call can be sent by email to info@re-tramontana.org.