Comunitaria is a Program on International Contemporary Art Residency created in Lincoln,
Argentina, in 2016, by Laura Khalloub and Rodolfo Sala in charge of the General Direction
of Museums in Lincoln District. They set up a work in collaboration with researchers from
Argentina, Chile and Brazil, interested in thinking of different work practices more oriented
towards socially committed art and its relations with community contexts. From there on,
they developed a program aimed to include the entire territory of the Lincoln District (made
up by 11 towns, located 320km away from Buenos Aires Capital City) by opening up spaces
for hearing different voices and experiences among artists and residents from inland
Argentina. The District of Lincoln consists of several towns that range from those with 100
inhabitants on up to larger towns. These differences of social organizations, as well as their
cultural factors, their own and complex systems of political and discursive interaction, turn
out to be the starting point of this experience. This way, the program involves debates,
discussions, decision making and interchanges among artists, coordinators, managers and
local inhabitants with the purpose of reinforcing the development of artistic projects
focused on the particularity of each local context.
The residency, that takes place every year since 2016, has a short duration of two weeks
and runs simultaneously in the 11 towns of Lincoln County (Roberts, Arenaza, Las Toscas,
Carlos Salas, Triunvirato, Martinez de Hoz, El Triunfo, Bayauca, Bermudez and Lincoln: the
main city of the district). Above all, the purpose of this program is not only to encourage
and deep into artistic experiences that show friendship with the existing dynamics in social
processes, but also to boost critical thinking about social committed art practices.
This initiative is produced by the Lincoln Arts and Culture Association with the support of
the
Ministry of Culture and Education of the Municipality of Lincoln.
