26 Mar 2015

UNIDEE - University of Ideas: Call for applications, Programme 2015

UNIDEE - University of Ideas: Call for applications, Programme 2015

UNIDEE - University of Ideas
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus
Via G. B. Serralunga 27
13900 Biella
ITALY

www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
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contact: unidee@cittadellarte.it

Programme Director and Curator: Cecilia Guida
Programme Coordinator: Elisa Tosoni
Assistant to the Director: Giulia Crisci


UNIDEE at Cittadellarte is changing. After 14 years as a residency programme, and a transitional 15th edition questioning the relevance of traditional residency schemes while testing out a new format, UNIDEE has evolved into a multifaceted platform, with a new educational programme based on interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and experience exchange, alongside a series of artists' residency projects.

UNIDEE - University of Ideas offers an educational artistic programme of weekly residential modules taking place both at Cittadellarte and at international academic partners' sites. An alternative to the traditional educational system, it works in synergy with international academies and public universities. It fosters processes of cross-pollination to investigate the relationship between art and public sphere, focusing on topics like social responsibility, urban transformation, participatory art practices, demopraxy, alternative models of local economic development, sustainability, etc.

Designed for artists, curators, students, social entrepreneurs, cultural project managers, etc., UNIDEE - University of Ideas' modules put forward a participatory learning experience in a small group setting, through practices, methodologies and tools apt at forging knowledge while fostering relational skills, socially responsible behaviours that value diversity, 'effective' horizontal thought processes, and the possibility to 'err', on a quest for new means of expression.

The programme is conceived as a long term endeavour with the mission to be engaging continuously with civil society not only through dialogue and active participation, but also through the (re)localisation of those processes of symbolic identification on the side of the modules' and residencies' participants, in Biella as well as in their own original social contexts and groups.


UNIDEE - University of Ideas' Modules for 2015:

UNIDEE - University of Ideas educational programme of weekly modules at Cittadellarte kicks off with its first year on May 4th and runs until November 27th, 2015.
Its programme for 2015 sets out to explore three broad concepts: temporality, responsibility, participation (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee). Analysed from a variety of angles (artistic, historical, geographic, philosophical, political, economic, anthropological, sociological, mediological, juridical, architectural, etc.), these three key topics will be unravelled together by participants, mentors and guests, through an exciting blend of formats spanning from the theoretical to the performative. The modules will encompass experiments in art history paradigms, activism, commons, prefigurative politics, territorial transformation, museology, visual narratives, social imagery, relational systems, new rituals, social cooking, urban space exploration, ideas gathering (etc.).

04-08.05.2015 (Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico)
How do the masses of data making up Ubiquitous Infoscapes (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=8) radically transform our lives and perception of the world? How do they affect public, private, intimate spaces, our rights, approach to knowledge-sharing, learning, expression and communication?
Deadline: 04.04.2015

11-15.05.2015 (Silvia Franceschini with Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Beyond Entropy)
Changing nothing so that everything is different
(www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=9) reflects on the idea of the city and its post-industrial evolution in Europe, while questioning artistic practices' role in gentrification processes, also taking Cittadellarte as a case study of regeneration.
Deadline: 11.04.2015

18-22.05.2015 (Aria Spinelli with Tullio Brunone)
Curating as a form of assembly (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=10)
focuses on alternative modes of thinking society. It discusses and enacts how 'curating', through imaginative forms of political emancipation, can shift power relations between artists, authors and contexts.
Deadline: 18.04.2015

25-29.05.2015 (Massimiliano Viel)
Through theory, listening experiences and practical laboratories, Patterns and Music (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=11) proposes music production techniques, alongside strategies to deal with music in its broadest acceptation, unmasking the conceptual frame of cognitive patterns when dealing with the evolution of music structures.
Deadline: 25.04.2015

08-12.06.2015 (Emilia Telese with Richard Shields)
By addressing practical matters (rates of pay, fundraising, marketing, proposal writing, effective networking, interaction with the art world), The Artist as Entrepreneur: relationships between artists, society, markets and world economy
(www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=12) provides tools for working internationally as an independent professional artist.
Deadline: 08.05.2015

15-19.06.2015 (Giulia Grechi with Fiamma Montezemolo)
How can we turn a museum from a temple for conservation of essential categories, into a new affective site where to activate dynamics? Performing Anthropology
(www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=13) aims to unmask the assumptions beneath our cultural understanding of key concepts like museum, archive, modernity, in relation to time, space, identity.
Deadline: 15.05.2015

22-26.06.2015 (Saioa Olmo Alonso with Sabel Gavaldón)
Group Matters (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=14) is a methodology in progress exploring relational mechanisms within groups to develop a type of knowledge applicable to participatory art projects and the transformative potential of art concerning power relations within social structures.
Deadline: 22.05.2015

29.06-03.07.2015 (Giusy Checola with Thomas Gilardi)
The artistic production of the common between territorialization and (re)localisation (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=15) focuses on the spatial and symbolic production of the common in art and place-making practices, meant as a tool for territorialization processes and (re)localisation of artistic practices within socio-cultural contexts.
Deadline: 29.05.2015

31.08-04.09.2015 (Federica Martini with Anne-Julie Raccoursier)
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: contemporary art histories and other news (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=16) investigates the writing of art histories in contemporary artistic research practices, the notions of responsibility and collective authorship and our relationship to archives, documents, artworks and oral histories produced by art scenes.
Deadline: 07.07.2015

07.09-19.09.2015(Christian Nyampeta, Sofia Olascoaga, Sakiko Sugawa, Jason Waite)
What do we have in Common? (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=17) is an experiment in living, learning and working together. An horizontal learning school focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic horizons of the commons. It emphasizes the importance of acknowledging maintenance work and collective caretaking as an integral to working toward enacting a common practice.
Deadline: 15.06.2015

21.09-25.09.2015 (Alessandra Donati with SMart- Belgium/Italy)
Law and artistic creation (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=18) discusses recent international cases highlighting disputes around copyright, authenticity, originality, moral rights, public art, participation, etc. It also focuses on the analysis of different contract models, accompanying participants in drafting their own.
Deadline: 15.07.2015 (in Italian)

28.09-02.10.2015 (raumlaborberlin)
Through an exploration of Cittadellarte's surroundings, Terrain vague (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=19) aims to realize 1:1 objects, designed and built out of timber by small teams of participants. A series of small architectural interventions will be carried out in the city, to create atmospheres of communication and exchange or intrusions into a situation of settled habits.
Deadline: 28.08.2015

5.10-9.10. 2015 (Beatrice Catanzaro)
Why do I do what I do? (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=20) aims to unfold the participants' understanding of their own practice, attempting to define a survival kit for a truly engaging participatory art practice. It explores notions of empathy, active listening and imaginative processes and addresses inter-subjectivity as constructed narrative and the quintessential humankind's imaginative capacity.
Deadline: 05.09.2015

12.10-16.10.2015 (Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen, STEALTH.unlimited)
Where imagination slips into reality (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=21) explores practices of urban transformation - not necessarily artistic ones – changing our dwellings. They will be analysed in their social, political and practical aspects, in order to re-imagine the future of contemporary cities in a responsible and socially engaged way.
Deadline: 12.09.2015

19.10-23.10.2015 (Santiago Reyes Villaveces with Manuel Ángel Marcia)
Approaching editorial and graphic production processes from a practical and theoretical angle, Photocopy tales: Publications and visual essay (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=22) addresses the development of experimental visual narratives, editorial processes and the means of production and circulation of publications, focusing on the possibilities of image production and reproduction offered by photocopying.
Deadline: 19.09.2015

26.10-30.10.2015 (Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna with Attila Faravelli)
Matter as Experience (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=23) proposes a series of immersive and shared experiences and individual actions reflecting upon processes of growth, erosion and trasformation of matter at different levels, and upon the interactions between these processes and human beings, in their subjective, social and political dimensions.
Deadline: 26.09.2015

2.11-06.11.2015 (Matteo Lucchetti & Judith Wielander visible project, with Ahmet Ögüt)
Visible. art as something else - Frames, Speeds and Scales
(www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=24) creates an interaction between the visible project research platform and the participants' own practices, discussing it through collective analysis; an opportunity to analyse methodology, artistic approach and skills when interfering with other fields of the social sphere.
Deadline:02.10.2015

9.11-13.11.2015 (Matteo Lucchetti & Judith Wielander visible project, with Jonas Staal) visible. art as something else - Frames, Speeds and Scales
(www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=24) creates an interaction between the visible project research platform and the participants' own practices, discussing it through collective analysis; an opportunity to analyse methodology, artistic approach and skills when interfering with other fields of the social sphere.
Deadline:09.10.2015

16.11-20.11.2015 (Monica Narula, Raqs Media Collective with Rasmus Nielsen, Superflex)
Deploying a methodology inspired by a folk tale, Recipe for Stone Soup: How to Let Time Cook Us All Precedures for Conversational Practice in Contemporary Art (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=26) devises, through collective action, a set of procedures for the making of an art work/situation while directly addressing the questions of temporality, responsibility and participation.
Deadline:16.10.2015

23.11-27.11.2015 (Omer Krieger)
Performative situations in public space: The research and action group (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=27) aims at forming and training an action group. Reading and analysing public choreography, the performance of the state, modes of civic behaviour, performances of power, order and danger, through the observation of existing groups, it will generate a public ceremony.
Deadline:23.10.2015


UNIDEE - University of Ideas' modules at Cittadellarte are generously supported by Zegna Foundation and illy SpA.

Students are entitled to a discounted fee. For further details contact: unidee.admin@cittadellarte.it