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<div>July 14-20, 2019<br>
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<b>Application deadline:</b> June 19<br>
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<b>Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto</b><br>
Via G. B. Serralunga 27<br>
13900 Biella<br>
Italy<br>
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<div><a
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"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176334&F=H"><span
></span>www.cittadellarte.it</a></div>
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<div>UNIDEE, <a
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"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=162556&F=H"><span
></span>Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto</a> and <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=173516&F=H"><span
></span>Fondazione Zegna</a> welcome your application to participate
in <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176334&F=H"><b><span
></span>Rituals</b></a><a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176334&F=H"><b><span
></span>of the contemporary</b></a><b>,</b> a residential module
conceived by<b> Fiamma Montezemolo.</b><br>
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<div>This module aims to reflect on the notion of the ritual, its
current meaning and practice. In the last years many disciplines
(religion studies, anthropology, philosophy, art, socio-biology) have
approached the ritualistic and its role in making "visible"
a certain order in a specific context, in showing "the proven way
of doing something" which is the etymology of the word. As
Catherine Bell says, ritualization is "a way of acting that is
designed and orchestrated to distinguish and privilege what is being
done in comparison to other, usually more quotidian,
activities."<br>
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<div>The ritual involves, in general, a series of choreographed
practices based on images, words, activities, objects, symbols that
are organized in a performative act. The ritualistic act requires
whomever is involved to cross three phases: separation / threshold /
aggregation (V. Turner). The initiated is pushed to "plunge"
in a sort of liminal phase in which he/she is immersed in an
anti-structure/chaos (changing clothes, food, hallucination, dwelling
in unusual spaces, loss of usual cultural references, etc.) for a
definite period of time and in a specific space in order to re-emerge
to a renewed status and way to influence the cosmos.<br>
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<div>The participants will be invited to reflect on the ritual and
envision their own performative act. They will do so by recreating a
"rite of passage," or "seasonal rite," or
"life event rite," or "rite of exchange" of their
own choosing, through an investigation of the ritual in art, focusing
the module on contemporary socio-cultural rites in the territory of
Trivero and Oasi Zegna. In classic anthropology, the main
understanding of the ritual is that the 'liminal phase' brings
ultimately to an act of reintegration in a certain societal group. In
contrast, our main question will be: could an art work make the
liminal a more permanent condition and bring us to a new order instead
of a preestablished one? We will work on the association of
performance and ritual stressing their processual, indefinite
dimension, and transformative possibilities, thus making the threshold
of the liminal the main source of our creative acts.<br>
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<div><b>The 6 residency grants include:</b><br>
-Participation to the residential module<b> Rituals of the
contemporary</b> mentored by<b> Fiamma Montezemolo</b><br>
-Full board<br>
-Accommodation (single room, shared bathroom facilities-for 8
nights)<br>
-Medical Insurance (accidents only)<br>
-Use of a shared studio space and workshop facilities<br>
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<div>All costs for travels and Visa are intended at the sole expenses
of the selected participants.<br>
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<div><a
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"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176333&F=H"><b><span
></span>Read more</b></a>. Download the <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176333&F=H"><b><span
></span>application form</b></a>.<br>
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<div>For further informations and applications, please visit <a
href=
"https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=26210&L=176335&F=H"><span
></span>UNIDEE's website</a> or please contact: <a
href="mailto:unidee@cittadellarte.it">unidee@cittadellarte.it</a>.<br>
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