Sustainability is in the AiR

The project Sustainability is in the AiR (SAiR) will develop a model of sustainable management of residential centres to foster sustainable artistic practices and enhance career opportunities for residential artists. The project combines and upgrades the operational strategies of four residential centres in Ljubljana, Prague, Madrid, and Athens. The project’s added value is an invention of sustainable studio practices and an extensive accompanying program alongside residential exchange.

Objectives of the SAiR project are:

to enliven the activities of the residential centres after the pandemic crisis in a sustainable manner,
to circulate artists and to provide opportunities for artistic and social practices to intertwine,
to develop a sustainable production process at a residence centre that can offer artists time and space, support from professional staff and funding to create a new work of art,
to research sustainable art practices and the infrastructural potentials of the partners’ residential places and to test more widely its usefulness extended beyond the art world,
to raise awareness about sustainable issues in wider context.

The project will achieve the objectives through activities of artist residencies, knowledge sharing and public programme. Five main target groups will benefit the most: residential artists (8), partners’ staff and professional associates (140), visitors of the public program, and local communities (2240).

Main outputs of the project are residential exchanges (8 artists hosted in residential centres for the period of three months in each centre) and production of new works; knowledge sharing (online workshop cycle and the development of manual for sustainable studio practice), community engagement programme (48 events) with final exhibition/artists in residencies project presentation (4 chapter event).

MGLC – Mednarodni grafični likovni center

(Leader)

Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

MeetFactory OPS (partner)

Czech Republic (EU)
Madrid destino cultura turismo y negocio sa (partner)

Spain (EU)
Snehta residency (partner)

Greece (EU)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age