tMCR#4:R.E.W.I.L.D is a 9-day artistic research residency in Leonidio & Neapolis, Greece, for artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers interested in the intersections of performing arts, neuroscience, and emerging ecological mindsets. We welcome artists of all disciplines, art and cultural professionals, and scientists open to embodied and interdisciplinary approaches to research.

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Grounded in the research framework of Somatic Architecture and the BODYMIND Architecture (BMA) method, the residency explores the bi-directional relationship between bodies and landscapes: how human movement, perception, and action shape environments, and how landscapes in turn shape our bodies, nervous systems, and ways of thinking.
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As an underlying conceptual reference, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles* has served as an initial point of inspiration—not as a narrative framework, but as a lens for approaching the geo-ecological, geo-social, and geo-political implications of our present moment through embodied and sensory exploration. Within this context, the landscape is approached not as a backdrop, but as an active agent shaping perception, imagination, and artistic direction. 

R.E.W.I.L.D is the acronym of a framework that approaches rewilding as an embodied and perceptual practice rather than a metaphor or a return to an idealized nature.  Within the residency, rewilding refers to the recalibration of sensorimotor awareness, attention, and creative orientation through direct engagement with landscapes, materials, and more-than-human ecologies.









Set within limestone cliffs, an abandoned quarry, caves, and a fossilized forest, R.E.W.I.L.D offers a site-specific context for embodied inquiry through somatic practices, movement-based research, and reflective integration sessions.
 
The residency emphasizes sensorimotor awareness as both a research methodology and a practical approach to embodying new ecological mindsets.
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Even though we are a core team of artists working with specific media, we try to not to predefine outcomes in advance. The residency allows forms and results to emerge in relation to the backgrounds, practices, and media each participant brings. WE SENSE AND WORK IN THE HERE AND NOW!
 
Artistic research may unfold through choreographic propositions, character or costume design, creative writing, movement-based documentation, painting, photogrammetry, landscape scanning, or other new media experiments. By engaging intuitively with the landscape through altered modes of perception, participants explore its latent potentials and how new embodied ecologies can emerge from situated, sensory experience.
 
By working with movement, somatic practices, and site-specific inquiry, participants explore how artistic research can emerge from lived bodily experiences, community living, and relational encounters with place, allowing new ecological sensibilities and creative directions to develop from within practice itself.



Living and working together in a shared environment, participants engage in co-living as an extension of the research process, where everyday rhythms, informal exchanges, and collective presence become part of the inquiry. Co-creation emerges through dialogue, shared observation, and mutual witnessing, fostering a temporary research community that supports both individual exploration and collective reflection.​