Concomitentes wins support from the European Commission through the Creative Europe programme

The ‘Art Living Lab for Sustainability’ project has been funded by the European Commission through the Creative Europe programme and will develop three participatory art projects in Spain, France and Belgium that address environmental challenges.

It is now official, Concomitentes has been one of the beneficiaries of the call for Grants for European Cooperation Projects (2022) within the European Commission's Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027.. The ‘Art Living Lab for Sustainability’ project promotes stable partnerships between European actors to facilitate innovation ecosystems and achieve artistic solutions based on Nature.

Contemporary art is more than a work of art, it is also protocols, devices and soft methodologies that can be replicated in different contexts. Few places are as disruptive as art. The objective of this project is to promote transversal cultures of participation that respond to environmental challenges in three types of commons: land, water and clay.. Three Living Labs, participatory processes, will be activated and then the artists will attend to the citizen demands derived from this prior mediation process.

The project, which has a budget of 266,514 euros and will allow the development of three participatory processes and their three subsequent artworks, will generate a toolbox to expand the scope of the project, as well as documenting the process. The aim is to demonstrate, in practice, how art and culture can intervene in sustainability.

The project will be developed in 2023 and 2024 and will be led by Concomitentes, with partners such as De Nieuwe opdrachtgevers/Les NouveauxCommanditaires (Belgium) and The Société des Nouveaux Commanditaires (France), as well as the Monte Vecinal de Couso (MVC), the Centro de Investigación Interuniversitario das Paisaxes Atlánticas Culturales (CISPAC)the Flemish Land Society / Vlaamse Landmaatschappij and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.

The project received a score of 93 points out of 100, a further indication of the relevance and pertinence of this way of doing things.