About Flusso Project
We are a non-profit cultural organisation based in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Our goal is to support artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners through residencies, interdisciplinary collaborations, and exchange across diverse creative and academic fields.
We are interested in approaches that move between disciplines, engaging with both local contexts and international perspectives. Through residencies we offer time, space, and resources for contemporary practitioners that respond to place, layered histories, and cultural imaginaries.Community engagement is an important part of our mission. We aim to build meaningful connections through projects and events, many of which will involve our residents sharing their practices and perspectives. Alongside these activities, we are also developing publishing and exhibition initiatives to further support and showcase the work of our residents and collaborators.
Archaeomythologies
Interdisciplinary Art and Research Programme Dedicated to Marija Gimbutas
Archaeomythologies is an interdisciplinary art and research residency programme dedicated to the legacy of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and her work in Apulia and Southern Europe. The programme brings together artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners to explore relationships between archaeology, ecology, mythology, and contemporary artistic practice through site-based inquiry and collaborative learning.
Current Edition
Archaeomythologies: Currents
2026–2027 Focus on Rivers and Waterscapes
The second edition of Archaeomythologies turns its attention to rivers and waterscapes as sites of memory, symbolism, and ecological entanglement. Taking Marija Gimbutas' interdisciplinary approach as a point of departure, the programme investigates how water has shaped human settlement, ritual life, symbolic systems, and cultural imaginaries from prehistory to the present day.Set in the Apulia region of southern Italy, this edition invites artists to engage with visible and invisible waters, karst landscapes, water rituals, environmental change, and contemporary questions surrounding water scarcity and infrastructures.Open call for LIAA members PDF
Two artists will be selected for a one-month research residency in Apulia in October 2026.
Application deadline 28 July 2026
The programme has contributed to the artistic research of Eglė Budvytytė for her new work commissioned for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, developed in collaboration with curator Louse O’Kelly and artist Marija Olšauskaitė. As part of this process, we shared research materials, organised site visits, and facilitated meetings with archaeologists and institutional experts. We continue to support the production of the work.
We also supported Lithuanian composer Kristupas Bubnelis – a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York – in his exploration of sound ecologies and the mythopoetic resonances of Marija Gimbutas’ legacy for his new composition. The piece premiered this autumn in Vilnius at the festival Muzikos Ruduo (Music Autumn).
In collaboration with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association LIAA and Lithuanian Culture Institute, we selected Kamilė Krasauskaitė for the Archaeomythologies programme in Apulia. During her residency, she developed her ongoing inquiry into Places of Power — exploring how ritual spaces, myth, and material traces continue to shape human and more-than-human imaginaries across time.
Her residency was part of the Cultura Lituana in Italia 2025–2026 programme, implemented by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Italian Republic.
The programme supported Lithuanian artist Erika Povilonytė in developing new work through research into archaeological landscapes and material practices in Apulia. The outcomes of the residency were presented in her solo exhibition Notes on Slow Forms at Il Sedile in Putignano.
Our Story is Taking Shape
Flusso is currently in its early stages of development, and our visual identity and full website are still in progress. Updates on future calls, programmes, and partnerships will be shared in due course. In the meantime, follow us on Instagram for the latest news or get in touch via email – we’d love to hear from you.