UNIDEE and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto are pleased to announce three open calls for participation in the Fall/Winter 2024 Season of UNIDEE Modules Ways of becoming: 25 Years with UNIDEE, promoted and curated by the UNIDEE Advisory Board.
In 2024, UNIDEE Residency Programs celebrates 25 years of creating educational encounters for artists engaged in art and social transformation at its home at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella (Italy). To celebrate this significant milestone and to forward-looking the future, in September a series of talks, lectures, and meetings will address some persistent and emerging issues related to art for social change, reflect on the transformation of socially engaged artistic practices over the past twenty-five years, and attempt to outline the different possibilities in which transdisciplinary art can unfold.
(More info on the celebration programme)
These questions will also be addressed with a new season of UNIDEE Modules.
The UNIDEE modules are programme-based, short-residency formats. The residencies will be opportunities to share and unpack your ongoing practice or action research with a group of peers, mentors, and guest speakers who will join for a panel discussion. Over the course of five days a group of up to twelve people per module will engage in a programme of seminars and presentations, group discussions and critiques, workshops, visits, and other responsive and informal activities.
The aim of the modules is to provide space in which to explore some of the questions and learning in more depth.
Participation is offered free of charge and a limited number of partial and full travel bursaries are made available to those who would not otherwise be able to participate.
Deadline for submission is Sunday 1st September 2024 23.59 (CET).
Please visit the individual module links for a broader overview of the themes covered and methodologies.
Module I - Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional Practices from a Networked Perspective with mentor Fabiola Fiocco and facilitator Alessandra Saviotti (04 - 09 November 2024) offers the opportunity to rethink organisational and collaborative structures from a transnational perspective and imagine more equitable and sustainable working paradigms.
Keywords: Instituting / Situatedness / Commons / Embeddedness / Social Responsibility / Ecosystems / Dig where you stand / Maintenance / Infrastructure / Network / Constellations / Slowness / Scaffolding / Expanded Curatorship / Sustainability
Link to Module I
Module II - Ways of Practicing Conviviality: the artist as Host with mentor Susanne Bosch and facilitator Beatrice Catanzaro (18 - 22 November 2024) will explore artistic attitudes and qualities of an art practice that intends to invite others into the art-making process in a responsible and responsive way.
Keywords: Knowledge Production / Artistic Research / Conversation / Exchange / Participation / Informality / Sharing
Link to Module II
Module III - Cracking Concrete: making and maintaining radical structures through place-based practice with mentor Eva Rowson and Bianca Elzenbaumer and facilitator Andy Abbott (02 - 06 December 2024) we will explore practical and theoretical tools that can be used to create radical and equitable structures through place-based practices.
Keywords: Community / Locality / Place / Environment / Nature / Public Space / Commons / Embeddedness / Social Responsibility / Interculturality / Dig where you stand / Maintenance / invisible structures and barriers / reformist and abolitionist strategies / Access / Infrastructure (physical and societal)
Link to Module III
Module IV - The Present Utopia. An invitation to celebrate the richness of the present and to think together about the future of residences is co-curated by invited mentor Angela Serino. It is a module hosted by invitation with several Italian residencies.