The artists in residence Eufònic 2018 with the collaboration of Lo Pati Centre d’Art will be living at Balada residence to make an immersion in the landscape of the Delta del Ebro and work on pieces inspired by the territory.

These are the three projects selected in this edition, the results of which will be seen throughout the four days of the festival in September.

• Visual artist Eduardo Valderrey works since 1996 on the project Malpais (Badland), which analyses the relations between identity, territory and the multiple contradictions with the built environment and the territory, the no places. Currently, he works on the proposal Las Palabras Ciegas (Blind Words), in which he investigates the relationship between water politics and the idea of border. During his residence in Balada, the Barcelonian will investigate the identity of the place, the Ebro Delta as a transit space of the river, and as a natural border of two territories. For this purpose, he will produce an audiovisual piece related with the surroundings that will collect the architectural and natural elements that define the concept of border, and the spaces of occupation that generate the own architectures of the Ebro river.
• Laia Arqueros, Larry Rodríguez, Sea Cyanide and Oliver Mancebo conform since 2017 La Forasteria, an artistic collective that it is, by definition, an intruder there where goes. They approach all kinds of surroundings, spaces, lands, mythologies and gastronomies to return the learnings in the form of gastro-audible (?) actions, of collective rituals that mix the popular wisdom of the landscape with the mysterious part of the specific nature of each land.
• Alba Rihe, cultural agitator and member of the musical duo Las Bistecs, moves through the non-academic artistic circuit of Barcelona’s underground scene. She has developed different working methodologies that have the same central focus: performance and the fusion of various artistic tools are used to spread a message that uses absurdity and corporeal matter as outstanding elements.