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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for one UNFUNDED residency at UNIDEE – University of Ideas at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy Residency timetable: 2 months in Fall 2015, or during the year 2016


Deadline:
Tue Jun 30, 2015 23:30

Location:
Biella, Italy

I. ABOUT UNIDEE - University of Ideas
UNIDEE - University of Ideas is a multifaceted educational platform founded in the nineties by Pistoletto, investigating the relationship between art and the social. After nearly two decades focussed on medium term educational residencies Unidee developes in 2015 a new programme of weekly residential modules based on interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and experience exchange, alongside a series of artists’ residency projects.
This year's programme, developed by Cecilia Guida in collaboration with Juan Esteban Sandoval, within the general direction by Cittadellarte’s director Paolo Naldini, kicked off on 04.05.2015, and focuses on three broad concepts: temporality, responsibility, participation, encompassing art history, activism, commons, politics, territorial transformation, museology, visual narratives, social imagery, relational systems, rituals, social cooking, urban space (etc.).
The programme for 2016, to be announced in the Fall, will focus on three other themes.
The structure of UNIDEE - University of Ideas is articulated through four types of activities investigating the relationship between art and the social:

Weekly residential modules taking place at Cittadellarte, open to professionals as well as the general public, held by mentors,experts on the three broad thematic areas (temporality, responsibility, participation) chosen for 2015’s programme and examined in depth from artistic, historical, geographical, philosophical, political, economic, anthropological, sociological, mediological, juridical, architectural points of view. Modules are intended as high intensity rapid retreats for localized practitioners who feel they might benefit from a few days step back form their practice in order to devote themselves to overall rethinking or to addressing specific issues in a stimulating environment, with other practitioners and professionals form various also unrelated contexts. Modules are coordinated each by a different expert in the frame of Cittadellarte's and specifically Unidee's research frame
Seminar modules taking place at Cittadellarte and/or at external partner centres
Residency programmes for international artists at Cittadellarte
Connective Residency at Cittadellarte.

II. 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 1970
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.

III. ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Fall 2015 is going to be a particularly stimulating season at Cittadellarte, with the seasonal international residents and the weekly residential modules participants and mentors. In the Fall, the art scene in the Piedmont region is particularly buzzing, with the art fair Artissima and its collateral events taking place in Turin.
If selected, you will be in residence together with other four international artists coming from India (thanks to a joint grant UNIDEE + Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation), Palestine (thanks to a joint grant UNIDEE + A. M. Qattan Foundation), Egypt (thanks to an exchange with Townhouse Gallery via the Resò network) and Colombia (thanks to an exchange with Lugar a dudas via the Resò network).

Also, every week a different group of practitioners from the world over will convene to Unidee's weekly modules.

Please note that this residency at Cittadellarte is unfunded.

UNIDEE – University of Ideas will be at hand to assist you with your funding applications.

The programme fee for 2015 is set at € 6.000 for two months, and € 3.000 for any additional month. In addition, the applicant needs to account for living, travel and health insurance costs for the duration of his/ her stay in Biella.

The programme fee includes:

Accommodation (single room in an apartment shared with other international residents)
Use of a shared studio space
Use of shared workshop facilities and AV equipment
Medical Insurance (accidents only)
Residency coordination
Tailored national and international experts' visits, networking sessions, institutional visits and travel within Northern Italy (especially Turin, Milan and Venice)
Small budget for project production & communication, translations
Attendance to 2 weekly modules chosen by the selected applicant (see the full programme here http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activities.html)

IV. TIMELINE
The application period for the general unfunded A.I.R. open call for 2015/16 starts on 18.05.2015. The deadline for submitting applications is 30.06.2015.

The UNIDEE – University of Ideas committee will operate the selection. The selection is based on artistic merit and the consistency of artistic practice with the aims of Unidee programme.

Final results will be published on the UNIDEE - University of Ideas' website, as well as on the partner organisations' social media pages by July 30th, 2015. Please note that only invited artists will be contacted in person when the selection process is over.

V. HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your application (in digital format only) to: Ms. Elisa Tosoni at: unidee.submission@cittadellarte.it stating “UNIDEE 2015 residency application (your name)” as a subject line (up to 10 MB per email).
If you are submitting more than one email, please state that, for example as subject: UNIDEE 2015 residency application (your name) 1 of 3 / 2 of 3 / 3 of 3 (no more than three emails).

Please fill out (in English only) the application form that follows by including :

Your basic and contact information
Your period of choice; if in Fall 2015 please tell us which two modules you would like to attend
A motivation letter (up to 1 A4 page, font size 12)
A project proposal (not binding; up to 1 A4 page, font size 12)
Your artist statement (up to 300 words)
Your Curriculum Vitae (up to 2 A4 pages, font size 12)
Check list of submitted work (Images, texts, audios, videos, URLs, etc.)
Your portfolio and/or practice presentation with a selection of relevant work, as follows:
Images: Submit up to 10, at 100 dpi and medium-sized
Texts: Submit up to 3 examples, published or unpublished
Audio files: Submit up to 3 examples at a duration of up to 10 minutes each
Videos: Submit either URLs if available online or use one of the following upload services only: Wetransfer, Dropbox, Rapidshare or yousendit.
Be careful with links' expiry dates!

All material must be labelled with surname (family) name, followed by an underscore in the file name. For example: John Smith will label his submitted images as Smith_(title of image).jpg.


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Where Imagination Slips Into Reality. A weekly residential module led by STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen) , at UNIDEE - University of Ideas (Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy)


Deadline:
Sat Sep 12, 2015 23:30

Location:
Biella, Italy

Where Imagination Slips Into Reality
Mentor:
STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen)
When:
12 Oct / 16 Oct, 2015
Deadline for application submission:
12.09.2015
Where:
Cittadellarte, Biella
Language:
English
TOPICS/TAGS: spatial practices, self-organisation, urban commons, reimagining urban life, responsibility, participation
Module outline

Gradually, over more than a decade, the responsibility for re-drafting the socially engaged future of the city is being taken upon by an unusual coalition of those that would have - until recently - hardly be considered eligible. This module will dive into social, political, but also practical sides of a wide range of projects, encompassing STEALTH.unlimited’s own work as well as projects developed by other practitioners in the artistic and cultural field.

Factors like a dissolving welfare state, deregulation policies, privatisation agendas, but equally an increasing awareness of the unsustainability of the ongoing financialisation of urban development (think of the ongoing economic downfall), have laid open a terrain in which artists, spatial practices, cultural and artistic institutions, NGO’s or neighbourhood initiatives have claimed a territory previously reserved for governmental organisations, real-estate developers and urban planners. Accompanied by a new kind of engagement that seeks to involve citizens as well as a new realm of professionals, these actors or organisations are already making many vital contributions, even if they are still primarily perceived as peripheral or secondary to the discussion on urban development.

Where Imagination Slips Into Reality will explore the transformation of such practices, and their transition from temporary artistic interventions, via larger urban imaginations, to interventions that clearly step beyond the field of art. What they have in common is a search for a shared creation, different models of governance, and intense participation of communities in various, essential aspects of a life in common. We will explore what are the motives to embark on such endeavours, but equally what are the toolsets we can work with, and which the potential of such approaches. Can our imagination consciously and with determination be transposed into reality? And importantly, once achieved, how can these initiatives carry on beyond the presence of that initial creative force?

This module is meant for artists, architects, citizens groups, activists, curators, city administrators etc.
Mentor

BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT

STEALTH.unlimited (Rotterdam / Belgrade) is a practice set up in 2000 by Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen. Through intensive collaboration with individuals, organisations and institutions, STEALTH connects urban research, spatial interventions and cultural activism. Ana and Marc’s projects mobilise thinking on shared future(s) of the city and its culture, like, Archiphoenix: Faculties of Architecture at the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial (2008), the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual (2009), IMPAKT Festival Matrix City in Utrecht (2010), the fiction-based project Once Upon a Future made for Evento in Bordeaux (2011) or the exhibition A Life in Common with Cittadellarte/ Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (2012) and Medellin (2014).

Participation fee
570.00 € Including accomodation and half-board


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Terrain vague. A weekly residential module led by raumlaborberlin, at UNIDEE - University of Ideas (Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy)


Deadline:
Fri Aug 28, 2015 23:30

Location:
Italy

Terrain vague
Mentor:
raumlaborberlin
When:
28 Sep / 02 Oct, 2015
Deadline for application submission:
28.08.2015
Where:
Cittadellarte, Biella
Language:
English

TOPICS/TAGS: exploring urban space, temporality, mapping, responsibility, intervention, participation
Module outline

The module will kick off by applying the situationist technique of dèrive, performing with the whole group of participants an exploration of Cittadellarte’s urban surroundings. The aim – to realize, by the end of the week, 1:1 built objects – needs to be taken into account since the very beginning of this process, in order to speed up the exploration. During the first day’s walks, the group will recognize, attracted trough their particular spatial-social situations and phenomena, a range of sites to work on. Using a set of simple recording tools, the characteristics of the sites will be captured. During the second day, we’ll focus on the evaluation and reflection of the founded and mapped spatial situations and phenomena.
The participants, divided in small teams, will then design and build specific objects for specific urban situations.

As portable prostheses for the public space or fixed spatial corrections, these objects will reflect needs, wishes, character of the sites and the citizens who experience them in their everyday life. The material utilised will be standard timber with screws connections. At the end of the week we want to carry out a series of small architectural interventions in the city, with the aim to create atmospheres of communication and exchange or intrusions into a situation of settled habits.

A final public walk along the different spots will provide the opportunity to test and reflect the realized objects.

SCHEDULE

September 28th
morning
Guided tour to Cittadellarte, including the Pistoletto, Arte Povera collections and temporary exhibitions (curated by Luca Furlan)
Group presentation
afternoon
Introduction to the workshop’s core topics
Walk/Mapping

September 29th
Evaluation/Team-building
Design/Presentation
Discussion/Definition of aims

September 30th
Building workshop at Cittadellarte

October 1st
Building workshop at Cittadellarte
Test on site
Adjustments

October 2nd
Public walk along the sites/Reflection

REFERENCES
The mentor will prepare a reader for participants with key texts, some of which will be discussed during the week.

MONUMENTS, 2013
Nantes
http://raumlabor.net/28062013-monuments/

cantiere barca 2011-13
Torino
http://raumlabor.net/cantiere-barca/

officina roma 2011-12
MAXXI, Museo nazionale della arti des XXI secolo, Rome
RE-cycle. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet
http://raumlabor.net/officina-roma/

the generator / sedia veneziana 2010
Venice, Biennale di Architettura
http://raumlabor.net/the-generator/

odyssee europa 2009/2010
Ruhrgebiet, a joint project organised by the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspiel Dortmund, Schauspiel Essen, Schlosstheater Moers, Theater an der Ruhr, Theater Oberhausen, raumlaborberlin and the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010
http://raumlabor.net/odyssee-europa/

Mentor

BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT

raumlaborberlin is a Berlin based group of 8 architects, founded in 1999, working at the intersections between architecture, city planning and art by means of performative, temporary interventions.

raumlaborberlin’s works focus on urban transformations and the relationships between private and public space. Urban situations that are leftover and difficult to handle attract us. Artistic and architectural interventions serve us as tools of communication and open up new perspectives for alternative uses, collective ideals, urban diversity as well as difference. We explore and use what we find, the condition of the place and consolidate alliances between local actors and external specialists. The goal is an architecture that succeeds in merging space with subjective experiences, that allows people to discover new qualities and leads to an alternative understanding of the city.

Our view of architecture doesn’t only connect to the built environment but rather to an experimental building laboratory for a participatory practice within the public realm. Architecture becomes the tool for finding and inventing a city of possibilities.

Participation fee
570.00 € Including accomodation and half-board


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Why do I do what I do? A weekly residential module led by Beatrice Catanzaro, at UNIDEE - University of Ideas (Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy)


Deadline:
Sat Sep 05, 2015 13:20

Location:
Biella, Italy

Why do I do what I do?
Mentor:
Beatrice Catanzaro
When:
05 Oct / 09 Oct, 2015
Deadline for application submission:
05.09.2015
Where:
Cittadellarte, Biella
Language:
English
TOPICS/TAGS: temporality, participatory practices, engaged art, inter-subjectivity, responsibility
Module outline

Did anyone ever ask you why do you do what you do? Have you ever tried to understand the deep forces that drive you to engage with your practice? Could you actually separate your practice from your life? This module aims to unfold the participants’ understanding of her/his practice and to look at her/his own work with a reflective and caring attitude, rather then an overly critical one.

We will explore notions of empathy, active listening and imaginative processes as tools for a truly engaging participatory practice, where the artist is never an external observer but a subject equally involved in the process.
We will then address inter-subjectivity as constructed narrative and the quintessential humankind’s imaginative capacity.

Collectively we will draw a constellation of attitudes, conditions and skills that might help us define a survival kit for participatory art practice.

SCHEDULE
During the week, every now and then, we will stretch our legs and backs and take some deep breaths to reconnect with our inner self…

October 5th
morning
Guided tour to Cittadellarte, including the Pistoletto, Arte Povera collections and temporary exhibitions (curated by Luca Furlan)
afternoon
Workshop presentation and group presentation
Participatory Art Practice: Bait al Karama and A needle in the binding (Nablus, Palestine)

October 6th
morning
Reflective thinking vs critical thinking: participants' presentation
afternoon
Unfolding engagement - some key factors
Empathy: a transformative potential
What is empathy and why it is essential to social coexistence
Mirror neurons and the development of empathic capacity
Warm empathy vs cold empathy - a personal story

October 7th
morning
At art school, did anyone ask you why you do what you do?
We will go for a morning stroll and reflect on this essential question: what are MY deep pulses for doing (or wanting to do) what I do?
The walk will be followed by group reflections and the possibility of individual tutorials
afternoon
Process vs project: the limits of a context-based approach
Reading of The loneliness of the project (Boris Groys)
Reflective thinking vs critical thinking: participants' presentation

October 8th
morning
Inter-subjectivity: the imaginative capacity of humankind and the building of consensus through narratives
Reading of A brief History of Humankind (Dr. Yuval Noah Harari)
Reflective thinking vs. critical thinking: partecipants’ presentation
afternoon
Video screening and discussion: “The century of the self – episode 1” (Adam Curtis)

October 9th
morning
Collective breakfast
all day
Glossary for participatory practices: we will attempt to draw an open ended constellation of notions/attitudes/skills/ essential to the practice
evening
Dinner party

REFERENCES

A brief History of Humankind by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~284

http://www.ny-magazine.org/PDF/Issue%201.1.%20Boris%20Groys.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran

Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Mentor

BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT

Beatrice Catanzaro’s current practice focuses on activating public participation and situations of mutual learning. She has been practicing throughout Europe, the Middle East and India. Her work has been exhibited internationally at (selection) MART Museum of Rovereto, Fundação Gulbenkian in Lisbon and the Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC) in Spain. In 2010, she moved to Palestine, where she currently teaches at the International Art Academy of Palestine (Ramallah) and initiated the participatory art project Bait al Karama in Nablus.
She is currently PhD research candidate at the Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

Participation fee
570.00 € Including accomodation and half-board


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Patterns and Music, a weekly residential module led by Massimiliano Viel, in Italy


Deadline:
Sat Apr 25, 2015 23:30

Location:
Biella, Italy

Patterns and Music

Mentor:
Massimiliano Viel
When:
25 May / 29 May, 2015
Deadline for application submission:
25.04.2015
Where:
Cittadellarte, Biella
Language:
English

TOPICS/TAGS: Listening, music perception, pattern composition, history of western music, performing arts, participation, temporality

Module outline

To escape the identitary cages we are surrounded by, whilst dealing with today's culture with its complexities, diversity and pervasiveness, a conscious approach to the whole range of music phenomena is fundamental both for curatorial and artistic/music practices and the perception of the habitual music listener.

The module puts forth an approach to music stemming from an analysis of listening, and proposes a series of techniques for music production as well as strategies to deal with music in its broadest acceptation. Specifically, it will trace the consequences of embracing the conceptual frame of cognitive patterns when dealing with the complexities of the evolution of music structures (from the history of Western musical tradition up to the forms and styles of the music practices in today’s media culture).

Alternating discussion of theoretical notions and listening experiences with practical laboratories (production/composition and performing with voice, body-percussion and found objects), the module is suitable for participants with any degree of music knowledge from novice to skilled musician, as no previous knowledge of music theory and music notation are required.

SCHEDULE

May 25th
morning
Guided tour to Cittadellarte, including the Pistoletto, Arte Povera collections and temporary exhibitions (curated by Luca Furlan)
Group presentation
afternoon
Introduction of the main topics of the course
Discussion

May 26th
morning
A simple technique of pattern composition
afternoon
Laboratory: My first composition

May 27th
morning
Special and notorious patterns
afternoon
Laboratory: Using the voice

May 28th
morning
A pattern history of Western music
afternoon
Laboratory: My first music performance project

May 29th
morning
What is there in music besides patterns?
afternoon
Laboratory: Let’s build a collective pattern performance

REFERENCES
The mentor will prepare a reader for participants with key texts, some of which will be discussed during the week.

Agamben G., What is an apparatus? and other essays, Stanford, University Press, Palo Alto, 2009

Besseler H., Das musikalische Haƒaren der Neuzeit, Berlin, 1959

Akademie-Verlag, L’ascolto musicale nell'età moderna, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1993

Bregman AS,. Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound, Bradford Books, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990

Delalande F., Le condotte musicali, Clueb, Bologna, 1993

Foucault M., The Archeology of Knowledge, trans. by S. Smith, Pantheon Books, New York, 1969

Foucault M., The Subject and Power, on Hubert L. Dreyfus & Rabinow P., Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1982

Huron D., Sweet anticipation: music and the psychology of Expectation, MIT Press, Mass, Cambridge, 2007

Margolis H., Patterns Thinking and Cognition, University of Chicago Press, 1987

Maturana H. Varela F., The tree of knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding, Shambhala, Boston, 1992

Nattiez J., Musicologie generale et sémiologie, 1987, it. trans. Musicologia generale e semiologia, EDT, Torino, 1989

Ockelford A., Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives, Ashgate, London, 2005

Mentor

BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT

Massimiliano Viel is a composer, musician and researcher. His manifold activities as composer, keyboard player and sound designer brought him to collaborate with ensembles, orchestras and theatres all over the world and with composers such as L. Berio and K. Stockhausen.
Besides the production of scores for acoustic and electronic instruments, from solo works to orchestra pieces, he developed his artistic path around the relationship between music and other media, realizing performances and installations in close contact with theatre, visual arts and dance.

He is member of the Italian collective “otolab”, devoted to audiovisual performance.
He is a professor at Bolzano’s Conservatory (Italy) and PhD researcher at the Planetary Collegium T-Node, University of Plymouth (UK).

Participation fee
570.00 € Including accomodation and half-board