20 Sep 2012

Call for Entries: VISIO European Workshop on Artists' Cinema

Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival presents VISIO - European Workshop on Artists' Cinema.
VISIO consists of a series of seminars and meetings dedicated to expanding the vision and themes of artists who use cinema in their artistic practice.
VISIO intends to favour the development of a European network of young artists and professionals who work with moving images, promoting encounters and international mobility.

The Workshop will be held in Florence, within the context of the 5th Edition of Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival (21-25 November 2012). The participants will be 15 young Italian and European artists who work with moving images; they will be selected with an open call, in collaboration with some of the most important European Art Academies and Schools. The Selection Committee is composed of Leonardo Bigazzi, project curator VISIO, Silvia Lucchesi, director Lo Schermo dell'Arte and Heinz Peter Schwerfel, director Kino der Kunst.

Two participants of the Workshop will be selected for the Young Talent Award organized by the Kino der Kunst Festival in Munich, Germany (24-28 April 2013). These artists will have the opportunity to present one of their projects to an international jury who will award a prize of 10,000 euro of equipment provided by ARRI, the most important producer and distributor of cinematographic equipment in the world.

Lo Schermo dell'Arte is a project founded in Florence in 2008. The Festival is dedicated to the exploration, analysis and promotion of the links between contemporary art and cinema. Among many international artists that have attended the Festival are Phil Collins, Omer Fast, Alfredo Jaar, Mark Lewis, Sarah Morris and Shirin Neshat.

VISIO - European Workshop on Artists' Cinema is promoted and organized by Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival in collaboration with the Festival Kino der Kunst in Munich and with the generous support of Regione Toscana and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze/Osservatorio per le Arti Contemporanee. The project is also supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy, the Deutsches Institut Florenz, the FST-Mediateca Toscana, the Institut français Firenze and Opinion Ciatti.
The selection of the participants is conducted in partnership with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, the École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, LE FRESNOY Studio national des arts contemporains, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Zurich University of The Arts, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.


Structure

VISIO - European Workshop on Artists' Cinema has a 3-part structure:


- Festival: the participants are invited to attend screenings, meetings and lectures of the Festival's official program, and are encouraged to actively participate in the discussions. This year's edition will feature works by Isaac Julien, the Otolith Group, Gillian Wearing and Melik Ohanian among others.

- Seminars: a cycle of 3 seminars will be conducted by artists and curators hosted by the Festival who will discuss various aspects of their artistic process and research methods with the participants. The three seminars will be conducted by Isaac Julien (artist and filmmaker), Heinz Peter Schwerfel (art critic, curator and film director, Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival 'Kino der Kunst' in Munich), Bettina Steinbrügge (art critic, Curator for contemporary art at the Belvedere/21er Haus in Vienna and lecturer at the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva).

- Conversation room: in this informal environment participants will be able to meet every day, in 30-minute individual encounters, artists, curators, critics, producers and directors of international institutions hosted by the Festival. These moments are conceived as an occasion for encounters and exchanges, to favour the participants' professional growth and to extend their networks of international contacts.


Selection:

Candidates must be young artists who:

- work with moving images as part of their artistic practice
- are under 35 years old
- are citizens of one of the 47 member countries of the European Council (for the complete list, see www.coe.int/aboutCoe/index.asp?page=47pays1europe&l=en)
- have an excellent knowledge of the English language


Application and Deadlines

The application must include: 

♣ Curriculum vitae
♣ Portfolio
♣ Letter of introduction, stating their motivations for wanting to participate in the workshop (max. 2500 characters)

Applications must be sent to info@schermodellarte.org by October 1st 2012.


The 15 selected candidates will be notified via e-mail by October 5th 2012.


The official opening of the sessions will be at 3 p.m., on Weds., November 21st, and will end at 11:30 p.m on Sun., November 25th. Participants must attend all meetings for the duration of the Workshop.

All meetings and seminars will be in English.



Registration fee


Registration fee for all Workshop participants is 350 euro and includes:

- Pass providing access to all parts of the Festival (screenings and lectures)
- Participation in all the seminars and conversation room meetings
- Meals for the duration of the Festival (lunch and dinner)
- Hotel accommodations (Nov. 21-26, 5 nights)

The fee does not include transportation to and/or from Florence.


Scholarships


Thanks to the collaboration with our partners the following scholarships will be offered:

• The 'OPINIONCIATTI Scholarship' of 350 euro for a european artist offered by Opinion Ciatti, one of the leading italian design companies (www.opinionciatti.com/en)

• A full scholarship of 350 euro offered by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy to a Dutch artist

• A full scholarship of 350 euro offered by the Institut français Firenze to a French artist

• A scholarship of 200 euro offered by the Deutsches Institut Florenz to a German artist



For more information about the programme: www.schermodellarte.org/ENG/


VISIO
European Workshop on Artists' Cinema
(Florence, 21-25 November 2012)

Promoted and organized by Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival

in collaboration with the Festival Kino der Kunst

with the support of Regione Toscana and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze/Osservatorio per le Arti Contemporanee

and of the Deutsches Institut Florenz, the FST-Mediateca Toscana, the Institut français Firenze and Opinion Ciatti

The project is curated by Leonardo Bigazzi