Our new Creative Europe project starts now. Over the next two years we’ll work in three European landscapes — on Terschelling (NL), in the Camargue (FR) and in Slovakia’s Rajec valley (SK) — bringing artists, scientists and communities together to make work with place at its heart.
Transitioning LANDscapes is a two-year programme that sets up three “landscape laboratories”, each rooted in its own terrain but following a shared approach: listen to local knowledge, frame urgent questions with partners, invite artists to respond in situ, and share the results publicly.
The partners are Oerol (NL), Le Citron Jaune (FR) and SYTEV (SK). Oerol leads from its island base on the Wadden Sea; Le Citron Jaune anchors the French strand on the Camargue delta; SYTEV brings long-standing community ties in northern Slovakia. Supporting the professional strand is Activate Performing Arts (UK), who will train and mentor our local advisory groups and hosts through the year.
What we’ll be working on: a first phase of on-site “matchmaking” to shape each territory’s brief, followed by residencies and public presentations. Alongside the artistic work, we’ll publish two open resources — a practical matchmaking guide (how to pair artists and landscapes) and an ecological guide drawn from the residencies — so others can adapt the approach in their own contexts.
We begin in France. The kick-off coincides with our first on-site visit in the Camargue at the end of March — a working delta where questions of water, industry and migration are never far from sight.
