Quincho—Red Argentina de Residencias Artísticas is now accepting applications for the third edition of Constelaciones 2025, its residency fellowships programme that connects artists, curators, and researchers with urban and rural areas throughout the country. The Constelaciones 2025 Grant offers a one-month residency in two different spaces within the Quincho Network (15 days of residency in each space), organized in pairs that intertwine diverse territories and contexts throughout the country. Each applicant must apply to a specific constellation (pair) of residencies. Participants will be accompanied by coordinators and will take part in collective events, meetings, and activities with local communities, promoting dialogue between practices, scenes, and situated knowledge.
In this case, Proyecto´ace has paired with Residencia Pastizal, a residency located on a geological foundation that is part of one of the oldest rock formations in Argentina: the Ventania massif. These formations, dating back to the Precambrian and early Paleozoic eras, preserve traces of the tectonic movements that gave rise to and broke up the supercontinent Pangea. The landscape thus acts as a natural archive revealing geological processes of enormous scale and temporal depth.
ABOUT THE CONSTELLATION ´ace – Pastizal
GEO´GRÁFICA [before the trace] is an artistic residency divided into two parts that proposes a crossover between art, geology, and territory. During the first fifteen days (November 17-30), the residency takes place at Residencia Pastizal (Pigüé, Buenos Aires province), located in a unique territory that was part of the supercontinent Pangea—inviting us to read it as a living archive where layers, folds, and marks reveal memories that predate any cartography or human presence on the planet. In the second stage (December 1-17), at Proyecto´ace (Buenos Aires), this territorial experience is transferred to a workshop space as a continuation in the form of a “topographic survey”: a visual, graphic, or performative investigation that takes up the same gestures of attention, displacement, trace, and imprint to reconfigure the experience without dissociating itself from the landscape that originated it.
The constellation is aimed at people whose practices are linked to porous thinking, the exploration of layers—physical and symbolic—and work situated in the environment. A transition between two complementary contexts, where the relationship with the geological activates modes of creation that are sensitive, attentive, and respectful of deep time and the fragility of our surroundings.
Constellations is carried out in partnership with the Williams Foundation and has the support of the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires (CCEBA).
