CARVING OUT THE SPACES FOR OUR COMMONED LIFE: A TRAINING GROUND
– A bi-weekly residential module led by STEALTH.unlimited/ Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen and guests Piet Vollard and Erik Jutten
Deadline for applications:
October 10th 2016
Application fee
850,00 € Including accomodation and full-board
Travel expenses related to the trip to Rotterdam to be covered by the participants.
author STEALTH.unlimited, 2015
UNIDEE - University of Ideas is an educational programme investigating the relationship between art and the public sphere and combining theory with practice. Through a new programme based on a weekly research and project laboratory under the guidance of a mentor and the active participation of a guest, the residency modules developed for 2016 focus on three new macro topics wich are: research, gift and alteration. Full programme UNIDEE – University of Ideas 2016 available here: http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activities.html
14 Nov / 25 Nov, 2016 (bi-weekly module)
CARVING OUT THE SPACES FOR OUR COMMONED LIFE: A TRAINING GROUND
Mentor: STEALTH.unlimited/ Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen
Guests: Piet Vollard and Erik Jutten
Where: Cittadellarte, Biella (IT) and Stoking House at City in the Making, Rotterdam (NL)
What role do artists play in the creation of new mutualism economic systems?
The double-module “Carving Out the Spaces for Our Commoned Life: A Training Ground” takes different economic principles and workings at its core. In the two weeks we will explore whether we, as artists, designers or cultural practitioners can envision a novel mutually supportive economic ‘space’ for our lives and work. A daunting task, to which aid we will call some of the forerunners that have already started the transition. But equally a formidable challenge that demands we break down some of the assumptions and workings concerning the economy, delve into areas we usually experience as ‘outsiders’ and start re-creating them on our terms. Money, debt, insurance, time, services – to name a few.
The module consists of a five-day line of activities at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, from 14th to 18th of November, 2016), and a subsequent five-day line of activities at the Stoking House of City in the Making (Rotterdam, from 21st to 25th of November, 2016).
MENTORS
Ana Džokić, Erik Jutten, Marc Neelen and Piet Vollaard are the initiators of City in the Making, an association opening abandoned (economically “toxic”) real-estate as a site to produce a new kind of economic and cultural reality. Ana and Marc are heading the practice STEALTH.unlimited, connecting visual arts, urban research, spatial interventions and cultural activism, like in the fiction-based project Once Upon a Future (Bordeaux) and Disassemble, a community based intervention (Gothenburg). Piet Vollaard is an architect, writer and cultural producer. He has been the initiator and 18 years the principal of ArchiNed, since 2013 runs the no-budget nomadic gallery 30KUUB, he authored a range of books on architecture. Erik Jutten studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts (The Hague), and has since been active as a driving force enabling projects and artworks to get realised in public space.
Disciplines
Research, collaborative action, new economic narratives, commoning, art politics & the art of politics, activism, demopraxy, imagination, imaginary, reality of life & work, gift.
Link
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=77
