New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Project category

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted
Reconnecting with nature

Email user
4ritasiles@gmail.com

Basic information
Project title
Artistic residence of good living

Full Project Title
Artistic residence of good living - Residencia artística del buen vivir

Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.
Mutur Beltz created in 2017, Artistic Residence of Good Living, in Karrantza, (Basque Country). Expanding the space for reflection, debate and dissemination on the situation of the sheep and pastoral world from the Art. For this, each edition, a series of artists are invited to live together with the Mutur Beltz family and the rest of the shepherds of the Valley.Each participating artist makes a work or project and the dissemination of this, is presented in different formats.

What was the geographical scope of your project?
Local

Where was your project implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Spain

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly rural

Does your project refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your project won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Is your project fully completed
Yes

Please indicate a date (mm/yy)
2022-12-23

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Mutur Beltz
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Laurta
  Last name of representative: Siles Ceballos
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Spain
  Function: co-creator, creative and curator
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Ahedo, 30
  Town: Carranza
  Postal code: 48891
  Country: Spain
  Direct Tel: +34 617941595
  E-mail: info@muturbeltz.com
  Website: http://www.muturbeltz.com
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/mutur_beltz/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): @mutur_beltz
In case my project is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my project in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the project
Please provide a summary of your project.
The Mutur Beltz Association presents the VI Artistic Residence of Good Living in Karrantza 2022, giving continuity to the work developed previously. With the purpose of expanding the space for reflection, debate and dissemination on the situation of the sheep and pastoral world from the Art; offering spaces and moments for shepherds and shepherdesses to coexist with the artists.
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https://vimeo.com/656763691
https://vimeo.com/538093635

In return for the economic grant received, each participating artist produces a work of art and its dissemination is presented in different formats: open days, talks, debates, publication of a publication and exhibition of the works; with the aim of enriching the dissemination of the work developed from the rural world. Art can help the inhabitants of the villages to feel proud and the youth to have a reference. "Art is necessary for a rural revolution that this world needs".

We are interested in positioning contemporary creation from different situations or characteristics that are occurring in rural areas, such as: The disappearance of a sheep breed, a type of material, a type of agriculture or way of life.

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.
Preserve

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
create

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
Participate

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
sovereignty

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
agroecology

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
From Mutur Beltz we work from the stable to the square, from shearing to design, from milking to cultural dynamization. Being shepherds, creators, performers, inventors and transformers of wool our task is to preserve and create new tools for the conservation and improvement of cultural and natural heritage linked to the pastoral tradition of our environment, taking how useful research, innovation and artistic creation.In addition to the inventive and annual production of this residence, since 2017, we buy the wool to most of the shepherds of the Valley; decreasing, in this way, the environmental impact on our local environment, since today the wool is treated as waste. Subsequently, we have managed to wash, card, spin and weave at an industrial level. Carranzana sheep wool had never been worked industrially before and has been relegated to artisanal uses; so it is a new product in the market and above all, our work is a historical fact... In circular economy from art! In local development. A clear example of cultural and social innovation strategies from the cultural practice, since all the capital raised by this Mutur Beltz Association, from our hard work in the organization of cultural events like this one, as well as in the creation of exhibitions, workshops, lectures, etc., has been invested in research on the art and culture of the region. It has been invested in research on Basque wool: trips to laundries, spinning, payment to shepherds for their wool.... All this work arises from the premise of "Rethinking extensive livestock farming from the creative experience"

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
We are interested in positioning contemporary creation from different situations or characteristics that are occurring in rural areas, such as the disappearance of a breed of sheep, a type of material, a type of agriculture or way of life: The disappearance of a breed of sheep, a type of material, a type of agriculture or way of life. In this way, we want to launch a challenge to the artistic community with the aim of provoking new discourses or utilities with our raw material, the Basque wool. Understanding this coexistence as a conception of life based on sovereignty, which combines sustainability, agroecology, social relations and forms of subjectivity.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
Everyone can be an actor of change. Among our tools, there is art. It allows us to rethink new paradigms that enliven our time: how to give meaning to production, with respect for people and the earth. This is what we call local development, and it is no less art. Perhaps it is a more authentic art, because it renounces the rewards of the cultural market and assumes only its transforming capacity. It is a necessary art, because it approaches the essence of existence, life and its occurrence.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project
We have the participation of the artist Sonia Navarro (Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, 1975), who focuses her work around the female housework and the impossibility of movement of some women in the rural environment and Natacha Sansoz (Carcassonne, 1981) nomadic multidisciplinary artist. Founder of the TRAME association in Oloron-ste-marie (Béarn. France) and of the transhumant research program "Cayolar". On the other hand, the project "Altxorrak" by artist Mikel Erkiaga (Bilbao, 1994) has been selected after a public call among 14 proposals received. Erkiaga's work focuses on recognizing the environment from a pictorial-photographic point of view, and taking it as a basis to dilute the barrier between both languages. The Jury was composed of: Luis Manuel Peña Cerro (local of Karrantza. Member of the group Etniker Euskalerria); Jose Jurado (Artist, teacher and member of the organization Rural Contemporánea) and Mutur Beltz, agroecological, artistic and cultural association to promote the Carranza blackface sheep.

We have had a large number of attendees in person and online both in the Open Days, as in the exhibitions held. We are very satisfied with the work done.

Mutur Beltz is committed to this type of circuits as strategic spaces for action, affecting a public alien to the problems of the rural world. It allows us to reflect on the role of art in the face of paradigm shifts in relation to the dichotomy between art and craftsmanship, the cultured and the popular, the rural and the urban, etc. Feeding back into the other legs of the project, i.e. the section on wool, milk and meat. From research, digressions and innovations achieved from reflection and creative experimentation.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was.
We are interested in positioning contemporary (global) creation from different situations or characteristics that are occurring in the rural (local), such as: The disappearance of a breed of sheep, a type of material, a type of agriculture or way of life. In this way, every year we launch a challenge to the artistic community with the aim of provoking new discourses or utilities with our raw material, the Basque wool. Understanding this coexistence as a conception of life based on sovereignty, which combines sustainability, agroecology, social relations and forms of subjectivity.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was.
With the help of a drawing of a sheep, Mutur Beltz has structured its different principles of action and objectives to be achieved. At the head would be the values from which they start: preserve, create, participate, etc. On the other side, there would be its four legs, each one of them understood as different departments: ART, WOOL, MILK and MEAT. Four sections from where they work from a holistic perspective. Understanding that each of them intertwine their interests with the rest, forming a whole. In this sense, we want to promote the philosophy of good living. This political commitment seeks the common good and social responsibility based on its relationship with Mother Nature.

From Mutur Beltz we work on the revaluation of WOOL as a raw material, from the stable to the square, from shearing to design, from milking to cultural dynamization. Being shepherds, creators and transformers of wool, our task is to preserve and create new tools for the conservation and improvement of the cultural and natural heritage linked to the shepherding tradition.

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries
Art and design allow us to explore the potential of wool, through artisan techniques and knowledge. To give meaning to productions, with respect for people, animals and mother earth. Keeping alive ancestral knowledge and adapting it to our contemporaneity.

Please provide documents showing the results, outcomes and impacts of your project
Web link
Web link
- https://muturbeltz.com
Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project
Cultural and social mediation and innovation in rural areas committed to research, the environment and artistic contemporaneity.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.
We understand this coexistence as a conception of life based on sovereignty, which unites sustainability, agroecology, social relations and forms of subjectivity.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.
Art and culture is very necessary for the rural revolution that this world needs. We need more initiatives that make things happen outside the margins, far from the city things also happen. It is also urgent to change the narrative about the rural world and the creators are the ones who have the tools to be able to make that change.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions
The Carranzana sheep is part of our closest and most sustainable past, but it is currently in danger of extinction due to the inability to provide an economic response to the raw materials it produces. The pastoral past is responsible for the landscape that we have inherited, so it has a very important meaning in our culture and our biodiversity. Everyone can be an actor of change. This project allows us to rethink new paradigms that enliven our time: how to give meaning to production, with respect for people and the land. This is what we call local development
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