16 May - 30 Jun 19
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR A RESIDENCY GRANT
at UNIDEE – University of Ideas
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistolettoin Biella, Italy
Launched by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1999, UNIDEE is the higher educational programme for art and social change of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto. Weaving together moments of interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and practical activities, the objective of the programme is to provide the participants with inspiration, motivation and instruments to activate or develop artistic initiatives based on the engagement of local ecologies. Open to artists and professionals from all over the world through residential dynamics, the programme intends to form “artivators”, i.e. people working at the boundaries between artistic practices, processes of social change and collaborations with communities outside the art world.
UNIDEE started as a four-month international residency programme (1999 – 2013), to enhance its model in 2015 by focusing on annual themes and developing three formats: UNIDEE Modules, UNIDEE AIR – Emerging Geographies and the UNIDEE Connective Residency.
UNIDEE Modules are intensive weekly residential modules open to students, professionals, activists and members of the civil society. They are led by artist-mentors with the support of guests coming from other disciplines, for groups of 10 to 12 participants.
UNIDEE AIR – Emerging Geographies is the international artists residency program organised in partnership with other art institutions, with the aim of supporting the practice of artists coming from non-Western countries. Every year four international artists stay in residence for eight weeks at Cittadellarte with the aim of entering in contact – though meetings, studio visits and travels in other cities – with the Italian cultural scene, and deepen their research interests.
Launched in 2015, the UNIDEE Connenctive Residency programme is revolved to Italian artists with the aim of connecting their work with the local context of Biella. Every year for a period of six months, an artist selected by direct invitation, is invited to produce a new piece exploring and expanding the themes of social responsible transformation considering the local context of Biella as a starting point of research
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
A 2 month long educational residency programme based on the relationship between participatory art practices and socio-political transformation of society.
The 2-month residency programme will revolve around the UNIDEE Fall Term programme titled Modes of Instituting which aims at investigate how artists are currently engaged in stretching the very notion of artistic practice beyond the dominant model of art making (Jason E. Bowman, 2016), to invent new organizations that expand art’s intervention into society. We refer to this methodology as instituting – i.e the process of institution building as a cultural and critical act. At Cittadellarte the act of instituting responded to four principles: engaging in long terms projects, promoting social critique, favouring collective participation on local scale, and endorsing multidisciplinary discussion.
The Fall Term is dedicated to imagine the role of art organizations in times of perennial crisis, and to discuss what would be their future(s) in the next coming twenty years. A group of eight international applicants will be selected to follow a two months program of workshops and conferences. Artists and curators that gave life to emergent institutional models and art organizations will be invited as Visiting Professors to share their experiences and concerns.
The final aim of the term will be to write, all together, an ethical charter of how contemporary art organizations should work as places for political agency, community building and social change.
The 2-month long residency offered through this joint grant (YARAT Contemporary Art Space & Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto) includes:
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
You are eligible to apply if (all conditions below must be met):
Preference will be given to artists who are managing independent / own spaces or who have a strong interest in the subject “Modes of Instituting”.
PLEASE NOTE that the residency dates are fixed and no change can be accepted. Once the artist signs the agreement, it is mandatory to respect the given dates.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday 30th June, 2019.
Only digital submissions are accepted.
III. SELECTION PROCEDURE
YARAT Contemporary Art Space will prepare an initial short-list of candidates, amongst whom UNIDEE's curatorial board will select one residency grant winner.
Final results will be released by Friday 19th July, 2019.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your applications to: your emailwith “YARAT/UNIDEE application (your name)”as a subject line (Up to 8 MB per email).
Please fill out (in English only)this application form by including your:
A selected portfolio (max 3 projects, one single PDF, max 6 MB)
APPLICATION FORM LINK:
http://www.yarat.az/content//2019_yarat-unidee-call_for_applications.docx