Open Call Echoing

As part of Culture Moves Europe, a program that funds mobility for artists and cultural professionals in all 40 creative European countries, we are thrilled to announce the open call Echoing.

Echoing is for artists interested in spending a residency period in Praiano, on the Amalfi Coast, from January 15 to February 28, 2025, to create a site-specific musical composition or performance that combines contemporary experimental sounds with the natural and environmental sounds of the Amalfi Coast in winter.

Posing as an antithesis to the noise pollution of the summer season, when the territory is crushed by the noises of land exploitation generated by overtourism, the artists-in-residence's research will start from the exploration of sound and movement connected to the territory, moving between the sea and the mountains, from its magical rituals and mythologies of the past, resorting to listening to the ancient places and cosmologies guarded by local communities.

The Amalfi Coast, like Echo, the nymph of the mountains that the gods turned into rock, has had its voice taken away. Through the research of the artists-in-residence, words will be returned to the territory so that they can tell their own story with their sounds, rhythms, and temporalities.

Through workshops involving the resident community as an intangible source of knowledge and know-how, it will be possible to experience, resurface, and reappropriate the ancestral sounds of the territory, exploring depths we no longer remember and creating an unprecedented narrative and sound mapping.

At the end of the residency, the artist will present the result of their research to the community, echoing sometimes unheard or forgotten sounds so that they can resonate in the poetic and political imagination of the territory and the people who live there.

The open call is addressed to artists legally resident in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries, except the country where the residency takes place (Italy). The residency program has been selected under conditions of Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

Read the requirements of the call and send your application by filling out this form.