Transition To 8: 2025 Art Residency on Air Pollution for Europe-based Artists (Greece, France, [...]

Transition To 8: 2025 Art Residency on Air Pollution for Europe-based Artists (Greece, France, Slovenia)

Transition To 8: European societies in flux (TT8) is a project merging social sciences, technology, and contemporary art to raise awareness about the impact of air pollution on European communities. Through participatory activities like bodystorming and sociodrama, communities’ biometric and emotional responses are recorded, to understand how communities react to social issues, such as air pollution.

The collected data are analysed by computer and social scientists; then they are integrated into digital moodboards in the form of: raw data, visual material, text, graphs, sonifications and visualisations. Those digital moodboards will be given to artists to integrate data into creating original artworks.

Supported by the Creative Europe programme, the project will run until October 2026 across cities like Eleusis (Mentor / Greece), Rennes (Electroni[k] / France), Ljubljana (MoTA / Slovenia), with exhibitions and performances taking place in all locations and at major festivals such as SONICA in Slovenia and Maintenant in France, with the final showcase being in Yerevan (TAI / Armenia).

Six artists will be selected to create original visual, audiovisual or sound works, integrating the provided data. Between May and July 2025, selected artists will visit one of the three pilot cities (Eleusis in Greece, Rennes in France, and Ljubljana in Slovenia) to immerse themselves in the local context, engage with communities, host workshops and open studio days.

The residency

• Digital residency: 1 week of digital meetings with project artists and partners, to take place before the physical residency. 1 week of digital support after research material will be provided to artists.
• Physical residency: up to 2 weeks in the host cities
• The final works will be showcased across at least two to four territories, including one of the pilot cities and the culminating exhibition in Armenia.

The programme provides travel expenses, accommodation, per diems, an artist fee of 2,500 EUR for the creation of the artwork and participation in the showcase event(s).