From Feb. 2023 to 26 Project Entre Serras is a Creative Europe project.
As such it is supported by the European Commission.
Project Entre Serras – Creative Europe
From 2023 to 2026, the Project Entre Serras Creative Europe (PES_CE) will host residencies, artistic workshops and seminars within the framework of the Creative Europe programme, revealing the potential of rural areas as a living laboratory, territories open to experimentation. The driving forces of PES_CE artistic actions are a quest to merge what we see as nature and what we see as communities, questioning the landscape, the border between urban and rural. Under the overall theme “Life and displacement in mountain territories”, PES_CE brings together partners from Portugal, Spain and France, to question the relationship between « seeing » and « experiencing » the landscape.
Moving around the world in an erratic way is the most primitive way of exploring the territory. With the Neolithic period, the domestication of plants (agriculture) and animals (grazing) generated two distinct types of space: the sedentary and the nomadic, the domestic and the wild. Since the 1970s, artists such as Richard Long, Hamish Fulton and Alberto Carneiro have made walking and the discovery of the territory their art. The idea of walking as an aesthetic form, a way of feeling, had already been suggested in the previous century by Henry David Thoreau, in a triple understanding of the act of walking across the landscape (action), of the path/line that crosses the space (object), and of the relation established with the space (the experience, a narrative). PES_CE adds here a particular interest in the separation between urban and rural, blurred by today’s technology and mobility. Its programme is based on in situ artistic experiments at the crossroads of theory, history and sensitive practices. The PES_EC questions the necessary rehabilitation of the sensitive world and the disastrous separation between Nature and Culture that we have witnessed in recent centuries.
How do those who live in or pass through the territory perceive it? The mobility of cultural agents and artists, of human and non-human actors, as well as institutional dynamics, are part of PES_CEs investigation of the territory. The project includes walks and collaborative actions that bring together artists and scientists, local residents and visitors. It also includes artists-in-residency, an online archive and visualization tool, debates and exhibitions. It is based on networking, research and co-creation.
The coordinator of the project is the Politechnique Institute of Lisbon (IPL) through its Landscape Museum. Also in Portugal are the partners Aldeias do Xisto (ADXTUR – Schist Villages), the Municipality of Castelo Branco / Creativity Factory) and the Geopark Estrela, Digne-les-Bains in the Alpes de Haute Provence (CAIRN, Centre d’art, CDLB) and the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (ESAAIX). The Spanish partners are Museum Vostell Malpartida (MVM)Municipality of Malpartida de Cáceres (AMC, through its Centre of Livestock Trails).
Creative Europe is the European Union’s programme to support the cultural and creative sectors and has two objectives: to safeguard, develop and promote Europe’s cultural and linguistic heritage and diversity; and to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors. Until 2027, the programme invests in actions and initiatives to strengthen cultural diversity and address the needs and challenges of the cultural and creative sectors, with the aim of contributing to their recovery while enabling them to step up their efforts to become more digital, greener, more resilient and more inclusive.
Projeto Entre Serras | a network of contemporary art in mountain areas 