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<div><b>Application deadline:</b> April 5, 2021, 5pm</div>
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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://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/dt247677hv7d0/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/13a02a7914f2e3b83a6bb1abd5e4fcc65e70689d"><b><span
></span>UNIDEE residency programs</b></a> and <a
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"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/dt247677hv7d0/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/fbfad04e55f36cf2e63dd9e1290ec7d2321685c3"><b><span
></span>Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto</b></a> are pleased to
invite applications for participation in this season's<b> UNIDEE
residency programs</b>. Curated by<b> Andy Abbott</b>, the theme is<b>
"</b><a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/dt247677hv7d0/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/a9a45ccec9db5abac39a25016aa3c72bded25723"><b><span
></span>Groundwork for Embedded Arts
Practice</b></a><b>"</b>.<br>
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<div>In 2020 more than 40 international participants took part in the
UNIDEE residency programme exploring what's next? for embedded arts
practice in a post-pandemic future.<br>
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<div>The 2021 program aims to further and deepen this conversation
with a specific focus on alternative structures, frameworks, ecologies
and organisational forms for socially engaged art projects, and the
groundwork required to build and sustain them. How are artists and
artworkers laying the foundations for new realities through creative
approaches to collaboration, exchange, economy, labour, policy,
pedagogy and networks? How essential is this infrastructure to the
success of socially transformative art projects? In what spaces,
places and contexts can it emerge and grow? To what extent can we
consider its development a part of the practice, and how can we
maintain it together?<br>
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<div>The residency is an opportunity to collectively and
collaboratively address these questions through the sharing and
reflection of ongoing practice and practice-led research. Over ten
weeks from<b> May to July 2021</b>, the residency will provide a forum
for practitioners from a range of backgrounds to gain new perspective
and develop their practice through a programme of peer-to-peer
learning.<br>
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<div>To read the curatorial statement click <a
href=
"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/dt247677hv7d0/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/a9a45ccec9db5abac39a25016aa3c72bded25723"><span
></span>here</a>.<br>
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<div><b>How will it work?</b><br>
In order to accommodate ongoing global social distancing measures and
travel restrictions the bulk of the residency will be delivered and
accessed remotely, with an option to undertake your one-week intensive
in Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (Northern Italy) for
those able and willing to travel.<br>
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<div>Participants will bring their ongoing practice, research or
project to the residency to share and develop over the ten weeks. The
development of your project will be facilitated by a programme of
peer-to-peer learning including group critiques, seminars,
meetings/visits and collective exhibition and publication, facilitated
by the UNIDEE team.<br>
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<div>Participants will also benefit from perspectives, workshops, and
mentoring opportunities from guest practitioners, curators,
collectives, arts organisers and academics. Invited guests and case
studies include economic geographer and co-author of<i> Take Back the
Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities</i>
Professor<b> Katherine Gibson</b> (Australia); artist<b> Jeanne van
Heeswijk</b> (the Netherlands); community economies platform<b> The
Interdependence</b> (artists<b> Kathrin Böhm, Kate Rich, Bianca
Elzembauer</b>) with researcher and curator<b> Aria Spinelli</b>;<b>
Decentralising Political Economies</b> (presented by
researcher/curator<b> Alessandra Saviotti</b> and artist<b> Owen
Griffiths</b>); artist, academic and curator of the feminist DIY
virtual collective Ladyz in Noyz<b> Marlo De Lara</b> (USA); nomadic
postcapitalist think-tank<b> Institute of Radical Imagination</b>
(represented by artists and academics<b> Massimiliano Mollona, Marco
Baravalle and Emanuele Braga</b>), Mexico City-based collective<b>
Cráter Invertido</b> (Mexico),<b> Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club</b>
(UK)-a worker's co-op run cultural venue in Leeds;<b> Pyramid</b>
a collective of around 150 artists with and without learning
disabilities and artist-facilitator, museum professional and
academic<b> Jade French</b> (UK); and artist, activist, and author
of<i> Art as Social Action</i> and<i> Dark Matter</i><b> Gregory
Sholette</b> (USA).</div>
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<div>The programme will also include workshops and discussions with
organisations in Cittadellarte and Biella including<b> Let.Eat.Bi, Art
of Demopraxy, Cittadellarte Fashion B.E.S.T, Hydro, Learning
Environment, Visible Project, PACE Futuro.</b><br>
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<b>Who is it for and what is expected from me?</b><br>
We envisage a cohort of up to thirty participants from a range of
backgrounds and with diverse practices in the area of socially engaged
art and social practice, curatorial practice, and
community-organization. Participants will have an emerging or
developing practice-either as an individual or as representative of
an organisation or institution-that they wish to develop during the
residency via an ongoing project or action research. Experience need
not necessarily relate to an institution or formal education. We
particularly welcome applications from those who will bring
under-represented voices and perspectives to the cohort.<br>
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<div>For the bulk of the residency you will work and develop your
ongoing project/action research independently and take part in weekly
webinars on Saturdays (aside from in the two week break in June).
Whilst we do not expect a predetermined or final outcome from your
project you will be asked to give regular updates and share a
'trace' or 'mark' of the project at various points across the
residency (using an online platform). As such you are expected to be
regularly capturing or producing shareable material as part of your
process.<br>
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<div>Participants will need to be able to engage with the full ten
weeks of the program that will take place between May 1 and July 10,
2021, and commit to a one-week intensive in this period. The one-week
intensive is an opportunity to focus, unpack, develop and share your
project with others. It runs from Monday to Monday and participants
wishing to undertake the intensive at Cittadellarte must arrive in
Biella the Sunday and leave on Tuesday so as to allow for an overlap
day with the subsequent group when applicable.<br>
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<div><b>The seven slots for the one-week intensive are:</b><br>
-May: 3-10, 10-17, 17-24, 24-30<br>
-Two week programme break for independent research<br>
-June: 14-21, 21-28, 28-July 4<br>
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<div>In your application you will be asked to let us know if there are
any weeks you can definitely not do your one-week intensive (either
online or in presence in Biella) as well as any week for which you
have a preference. The program will be delivered in English and
participants should be fluent speakers.<br>
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<div><b>Bursaries and scholarships</b> are available to cover the full
EUR 1500 fee for the program and, for those that choose to spend their
one-week intensive in presence, accommodation whilst in Biella.
Participants will be required to cover their own travel to/from Biella
and food/living costs whilst in Cittadellarte.<br>
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<div><b>Application</b><br>
Application is by Expression of Interest by filling out the <a
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></span>application form</a> with the following requirements:<br>
-Indicate the weeks of preference of the one-week intensive (from
Monday to Monday);<br>
-Up to 150 words about yourself and your practice and/or experience,
and your suitability for the residency*;<br>
-Up to 200 words about the ongoing project or research that you will
share and develop as part of the residency including details about the
local context (place, communities, audiences) and what long-term
change you could hope to facilitate. Please note the project does not
necessarily need to be already established and there is no expectation
that it should have a pre-defined or final output in the time of
residency. We do however wish to mark and trace the development and
the progress of the project through the residency, and ground the
learning in your practice. As such the project should be ready to move
beyond the 'idea' stage and into testing and application at the
start of the residency;<br>
-Up to 150 words about the network or ecosystem you feel your
practice is part of and how you would like to investigate, develop
and/or expand this through the residency;<br>
-and a CV / Portfolio in PDF format.</div>
<div>Total weight of attachments in one email: max 6mb.<br>
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<div>*Please state if you would like to be considered for a bursary to
subsidise the residency fee.<br>
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<div>Applicants must submit their application by email to: <a
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"https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/dt247677hv7d0/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/d5c089e21d7b7fb68f3e82c49be8c29ed9183aa5"><b><span
></span>unidee@cittadellarte.it</b></a> stating: "UNIDEE 2021
residency application (your name)" as a subject line.<br>
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<div>Deadline for submissions is April 5, 5pm and we will let
successful applicants know a decision by April 9.<br>
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<div><b>Partners</b></div>
<div><b>UNIDEE patrons</b> are Piedmont Region, Compagnia di San
Paolo, CRT Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Creative Europe
for "Alexandria (re)activating common urban imaginaries"
and for "STARTS4Water", illycaffè S.p.A.</div>
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