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<div><font size="+3"><b>Call for applications: 20th anniversary of
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<div><b>Application deadline:</b> April 29, 2019, 12pm<br>
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<b>Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto</b><br>
Via G. B. Serralunga 27</div>
<div>13900 Biella, Italy<br>
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<div><a
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>www.cittadellarte.it</a></div>
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<div>UNIDEE welcomes your application to participate in one or more of
its modules for the 2019 Spring Term and Summer Camp.<br>
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<div>Initiated by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1999, <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=18230&F=H"
><b>UNIDEE - University of Ideas</b></a> is the higher educational
programme for art and social change of <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=162556&F=H"><b><span
></span>Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto</b></a> (Italy). Based
on interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and field activities,
the programme fosters processes of cross-pollination to investigate
the relationship between art and public sphere.<br>
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<div>Organized around intensive modules, the programme is open to
artists and other practitioners from all over the world to develop
formal, theoretical and critical skills and provides enrolled fellows
with feedback and resources to facilitate and support their practices.
Each module is moderated by a visiting mentor and is specifically
designed to train "artivators", people who intend to use art as
a methodology, practice and language advancing the notion of art as a
public sphere and political agent.<br>
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<div>2019 marks the 20th anniversary of UNIDEE - University of
Ideas. Bridging the Arte Povera '60s movement to the third millenium
anthropocenic posthuman challenge, UNIDEE and Cittadellarte -
Fondazione Pistoletto continue developing research, visibilizing
practices and experimenting methodologies in the field of Socially
Engaged Art. In line with its previous line of conduct, UNIDEE 2019
has organized a dedicated programme with specific activities and
themes, confirming its international network of partnerships and
establishing new ones. Curated by visiting curator<b> Valerio Del
Baglivo</b>, the modules programme is organized around three key
concepts that delve into some of the historic and current major areas
of investigation of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto:<br>
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<div><b>Collective Agency</b>-a series of modules exploring the
potential of collective action and its political implications: artists
<a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173524&F=H"><b><span
></span>Chto Delat</b></a> and <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173525&F=H"><b><span
></span>Adelita Husni Bey</b></a> will introduce participants to
pedagogic embodiment, anti-authoritarianism togetherness and
perfomativity;<br>
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<div><b>Climate Action</b>-a summer camp to rediscuss the human
impact on our planet and imagine a postpetrol society: artists <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173523&F=H"><b><span
></span>Brett Bloom</b></a><b>,</b> <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173522&F=H"><b><span
></span>Luigi Coppola</b></a> and <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173521&F=H"><b><span
></span>Fernando Garcia Dory</b></a> will discuss how to engage in
long-term art projects considering agroecology, microorganisms as
social systems and forms of de-industrialization of the self in times
of climate breakdown.<br>
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<div><b>Modes of Instituting</b>-a series of meetings rethinking how
we can establish ethical principles to build our institutions not only
as centres of power, hierarchy, control and discipline (names to be
announced in May).<br>
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<div>Furthermore, new exciting features have been added to the 2019
UNIDEE programme: underlying its interdisciplinary nature, each of the
key concepts is introduced by a public talk of an expert from another
discipline (venues and names to be announced soon); reinforcing UNIDEE
publishing activity, a <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173520&F=H"><b><span
></span>call for papers</b></a> is launched offering artists and
theoreticians to respond the 2019 key concepts; and finally a new rich
<a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173519&F=H"><b><span
></span>package of fee reductions and fee waiver</b></a> is
available-including free spots for artist-mothers, reductions for
newly arts graduates, a seven days free module supported by <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173516&F=H"><span
></span>Fondazione Zegna</a>, and much more.</div>
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<div>Since 1999 the programme has registered the participation of more
than 550 students from 54 different countries.<br>
Previous mentors have been<b> Assemble</b>,<b> Ayreen Anastas and Rene
Gabi</b>,<b> Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Viviana Checchia, Etcetera,
Iliana Fokianaki, Germano Celant, Rick Lowe, Matteo Lucchetti, Viktor
Misiano, Antoni Muntadas, Adrian Paci, STEALTH.unlimited, Jeanne van
Heeswijk, Jason Waite</b> among others.<br>
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<div>UNIDEE Air-Emerging Geographies programme has established
collaborations with organizations such as<b> Fundación Museos de la
Ciudad</b> (Ecuador),<b> Yarat Contemporary Art Space</b>
(Azerbaijan),<b> Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation</b> (India),<b> A.M.
Qattan Foundation</b> (Palestine) and many others.<br>
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<b>Cittadellarte</b><br>
Instituted in 1998 by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto as a concrete
development of his<i> Progetto Arte Manifesto-</i>a direct call to
artists to initiate social changes in their own
contexts-Cittadellarte aims at inspiring and producing responsible
changes in society through ideas and creative projects. Pistoletto has
translated the Foundation's mission into the symbol of the <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=162557&F=H"><b><span
></span>Third Paradise</b></a><b>:</b> in his words "a
reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity sign, made of three
consecutive circles. The two external circles represent all the
diversities and antinomies, among which nature and artifice. The
central one is given by the compenetration of the opposite circles and
represents the generative womb of a new humanity". Since then,
Cittadellarte has built a network of autonomous and connected
"ambassadors of the Third Paradise," a group of agents that
represent initiatives of social and political transformation
worldwide. These ambassadors follow the practices of<i>
Demopraxia,</i> a social design prototypical methodology and
mythopoetical narrative leading the whole society to participate
concretely in the exercise of the government.<br>
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<div>Download the appliction form <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=173518&F=H"><b><span
></span>here</b></a>.<br>
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<div><b>Partners</b><br>
UNIDEE patrons are Piedmont Region, Compagnia di San Paolo, CRT
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Fondazione Zegna, illycaffè
S.p.A.<br>
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<div>UNIDEE AIR partners are A.M. Qattan Foundation (PS); Inlaks
Shivdasani Foundation (IN); Yarat Contemporary Art Space (AZ).<br>
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<div>For further informations, discounts, etc please visit <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25672&L=18230&F=H"
>UNIDEE - University of Ideas website</a> or contact: <a
href="mailto:unidee@cittadellarte.it">unidee@cittadellarte.it</a>.<br>
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