Site Specific

We invite applications for "Site-Specific" an artist residency ccurring in Spain’s Ricote Valley, where the Segura River winds through pine-covered mountains and semi-desert lands shaped by centuries of ecological and cultural flux. Site Specific invites artists of all disciplines with focus on live art, performance art, dance, choreography, body art, artistic research, social practice, conceptual art and interdisciplinary makers who want to create or develop site-specific work, live art happenings or investigations, performances, or visually-based contemporary performance. Our landscape speaks: of ancient migrations, agricultural intensity, and a coexistence between nature and human. We welcome artists who wish to work not simply in the land, but with it — to trace time, sense memory, and embodiment with the terrain.

Local and global, intimate and expansive, Site-Specific offers space for performance artists, sound artists, social practitioners and interdisciplinary artists to create with attention, care, and radical relationality.

To Apply: You will find the application form below. Please read all details and submit directly from our website. Applications for 1-3 month periods are read on a rolling basis until the residency is full. Spaces are limited and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible for your desired timeframes. 

What To Expect

  • Supportive and focused residency environment dedicated to creative research, experimentation, and artistic development

  • Accomodation in an international residency alongside interdisciplinary artists working across diverse practices

  • One guided site walk per week led by our local team of curators and artists who will introduce you to multiple sites throughout the Ricote Valley

  • Time to independently revisit and work deeply with a site that resonates with your practice

  • Support from our local team of curators and artists as you develop site-responsive work without the requirement of a pre-defined project

    • (1-2 mentoring sessions in site per month depending on the frequency desired by the artist)

  • Outdoor working sites, including rocky mountains, the Segura River, and citrus orchards that offer time, space, and inspiration to your creative growth

  • Access to a shared studio space located within the mountain for making, reflection, and material research

  • Opportunity to participate in an open studio / public sharing with fellow artists in residence

  • Informal dialogue with local and visiting curators around site responsiveness, sustainability, time, ecology, and place

We Look For Artists

  • already working site-specifically or want to expand their work to site resonate with the unique landscapes of our location

  • exploring water through different mediums and approaches

  • exploring geologic time through different mediums and approaches

  • taking an intertwined approach to site, community, and social practice remain curious and open to discovering new aspects of their work

  • who have researched the specificity of Ricote and share how their work will benefit from and contribute to a site specific residency in our location

Application Process & Timeline

Site Specific Residency is currently accepting artists

Residencies occur for periods of 1-3 months & start on the 1st of the month

Applications are open year-round and reviewed on a rolling basis.

We strongly encourage applying early for the dates you prefer.

Application Review Process

  • Applications for the 2026 program are reviewed by:

    • Raegan Truax — performance artist, Professor of Embodied Praxis

    • Verónica Peña — performance artist, ON DURATION (2022 & 2024)

    • Manuela Méndez — performing and dance artist, ON DURATION (2024) & DEEP TIME (2025)

Arrival & Departure

  • Artists may access their accommodation after 3:00 pm on the first day of the month in which their residency begins.

  • Artists must vacate their accommodation by 12:00 pm (noon) on the last day of the month of their residency.

  • In the case of a later departure, artists may continue to access shared spaces after check-out.

  • Additional accommodation (1–2 nights) may sometimes be arranged for an extra fee, subject to availability.

Travel & Arrival Information

  • Travel and airport transfers are not included in the residency fee.

  • Upon acceptance, artists will receive a welcome packet with detailed arrival instructions, local travel information, and site-specific logistics.

Getting to the Residency

  • Site Specific takes place in the Ricote Valley, Murcia, Spain.

  • Nearest airports:

    • Alicante Airport (ALC)

    • Murcia Region International Airport (RMU)

  • Major international airports:

    • Madrid (MAD)

    • Barcelona (BCN)

Accessibility Note

  • The residency takes place in rugged, mountainous terrain.

  • Accommodations, studios, and outdoor working sites require walking up steep, uneven hills and navigating staircases and steps.

Residency Fee

Single Artist in Individual Room in Shared House

  • One Month: €1000

  • Two Months: €1800

  • Three Months: €2400

Single Artist in Individual Apartment

  • One Month: €1300

  • Two Months: €2400

  • Three Months: €3300

  • 2nd artist in same accommodation = additional €200/month