THE SHIFTING PLACE – Funded residential module at UNIDEE - University of Ideas
Deadline: 29 April, 2016
Application fee: Funded residency, see below
CALL FOR APPLICATION 2016
For The Shifting Place. Aesthetic, spatial and temporal fractures of transitional territories residency at UNIDEE – University of Ideas, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy in the frame of Understanding Territoriality: Identity, Place & Possession (TIPP), a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU.
Mentor: Giusy Checola
Guests: 'Italia che cambia' and 'Transition Town Biella'
RESIDENCY PERIOD
16th – 19th June at Transition Town Biella/ 20th – 24th June at Cittadellarte
DEADLINE
29th of April 2016, 11pm CET
APPLICATION FEE
funded residency, please see details below
MODULE OUTLINE
In continuity with the first TIPP residency at Cittadellarte, run within the frame of UNIDEE 2015 entitled Creating Territorialities, this second residency titled The Shifting Place aims at investigating the aesthetic, spatial and temporal fractures of transition territorial processes, both in local and transnational, private and common, material and immaterial dimensions.
The Creating Territorialities programme considered territoriality as a possibility of working on the evolution of human life and on the place as a process of co-evolution; on the interrelated transformation of societies and territories; and on the co-presence of the local and the global in our daily life. This is in opposition to the concepts of territorialisation, de-territorialisation and reterritorialization as forms of cultural, social and spatial control that can be actualized exclusively by mankind, in order to transform and dominate the territories.
The concept of locality that the project Understanding Territoriality addresses is that of a “territory we feel most connected to emotionally”, a connection which is “often exploited by Eurosceptic and nationalist arguments but often neglected as a subject for discussion by Europhiles”. At the same time, the renewed and widespread attention to the “local”, as a place that gives life, as origin, as individual and collective heritage, and as a battleground, creates forms of delocalisation and relocalisation of values and imaginary meanings given to places, as well as forms of strengthening or destabilization of forms of expression, narration or representation of the dominant territorial identities.
As well as the discussions held during Creating Territorialities, this second week residency module will also establish interactions with locals through their ways of telling stories about “their” own territory, considering people as fundamental tools for revealing some of the evident and hidden, dominant or specific forms and processes of the Biellese territorialities.
Together with the editorial staff of the web newspaper “Italia che cambia” and the “Biellese in Transition” Association, one will explore, experience, investigate and formulate proposals about how artivators could create and activate shifting visions and processes between the paths, the places and the paradoxes raised by practical and theoretical elaboration of issues such as permaculture, resilience, bioregion and transnational social changing, between current forms of border thinking and the necessary self-alteration of local communities, societies and their own territorialities.
The module is articulated in three parts: three days spent around the Biellese mountains, hosted by the "agents of changing", members of the Biellese in transition net; the individual and collective working week at Cittadellarte; and the public presentation of the module's outcomes.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
You are eligible to apply if (all conditions below must be met):
You are a creative professional (visual artist, designer, architect, curator, writer, etc.) active in any field anywhere in the world, born after 1971
You have a fluent knowledge of the english language
You submit all the required documentation as part of your application in the correct format and by the given deadline.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
The grant includes:
-Travel reimbursement and VISA costs, up to 300 euro - (a higher amount might be evaluated for special cases)
-Full board
-Accommodation
-Production budget
-Use of a shared studio space
-Use of shared workshop facilities and AV equipment
-Medical Insurance (accidents only)
TIMELINE
The application period for partaking in the The Shifting Place. Aesthetic, spatial and temporal fractures of transitional territories weekly module starts on 28.03.2016. The deadline for submitting your application is 29.04.2016, 11pm CET.
Final results will be published on the UNIDEE - University of Ideas' website and on TIPP's blog, as well as on the partner organisations' social media pages by May 9th 2016. Please note that only selected artists will be contacted when the selection process is over.
PARTNERS
Understanding Territoriality: Identity, Place & Possession (TIPP) is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and produced in partnership by Fabrica (UK, www.fabrica.org.uk), Netwerk (Belgium, www.netwerk-art.be), Otvorena Soba (Macedonia, www.publicroom.org) and Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy, www.cittadellarte.it).
UNIDEE – University of Ideas, the educational residency programme organized by the Education Office of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus, is possible thanks to the support of patrons: Fondazione Zegna, Illycaffè S.p.A., Compagnia di San Paolo.
READ MORE ABOUT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM AT:
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/opencallpartners.html
