2025 art residency on air pollution (multiple locations)

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.