[spectre] (fwd) Intl residency program in Italy "LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts"

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:55:23 +0100
Subject: International call for residency program in Italy "LE VILLE MATTE -
	visual arts"
From: Marta Colombo <martacolombo at gmail.com>




Press release





The Province of Cagliari



promotes



International call for the residency program

LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts

first edition



Villasor, Cagliari, Italy

14 April - 15 May 2010



Open call from 11 January 2010 to 28 February 2010



The program is part of

LE VILLE MATTE - artist residencies



The international call for the first edition of 
the residency program LE VILLE MATTE - visual 
arts is open; the program will take place in 
Sardinia from 14 April to 15 May 2010 in 
Villasor, a town a few kilometers from Cagliari. 
This edition's visiting professor will be 
Giancarlo Norese, with Chiara Agnello as guest 
curator.



This initiative is part of LE VILLE MATTE - 
artist residencies, a wider project promoted by 
the Province of Cagliari, through the Cultural 
Policy Office, with the purpose of offering 
artistic study and research residencies in 
Sardinia, stimulating new productions in the 
field of music, writing and visual arts. An 
actual network of residencies, located in small 
centers of the highest environmental and 
landscape value, that may provide a profitable 
exchange between the local community and the 
artists of the national and international art 
scene.

The main goals of LE VILLE MATTE are: to involve 
the cultural institutions of the Region, create 
occasions of exchange through a program of 
conferences and meetings with the local cultural 
scene and the professionals in this field, 
activate fruitful collaboration with the artists 
in residency and offer them visibility, stimulate 
innovative and stimulating centers of artistic 
production in Sardinia that may contribute to 
improving the Region's image and foster cultural 
and sustainable tourism.



The call is open to artists from all over the 
world, with no age limit (but the applicants must 
be over eighteen); the ten participants will be 
selected from the applications by a commission 
whose members are Giancarlo Norese, Chiara 
Agnello and Francesca Sassu.



The project designed by Giancarlo Norese - 
Supercalifragilistic (Mistaken Landscapes) - 
addresses the theme of architecture and 
landscape, reflecting on the contradictions 
between the spaces that have been transformed by 
man and those that have been self generated by 
chance and necessity. "'Architectural erratums' - 
explains the visiting professor - are anomalies 
that bear a symbolic value capable of resisting 
homologation, question our certainties, but at 
the same time generate warmth, closeness and 
sense of belonging to the community".

Besides the daily activity of study and 
experimentation, the residency program schedules 
workshops and laboratories with guest artists 
invited by Giancarlo Norese: JiÞí Kovanda 
(Prague), Luigi Negro (Lecce), Umberto Cavenago 
(Milan), Luca Scarabelli (Como) and Mauro Cossu 
(Cagliari); with them the participants will 
investigate the themes of space, the relations 
between environments, the true nature of debris, 
the influence of urban action on our daily 
existence and the sounds that dwell and shape a 
place.



Chiara Agnello - artistic director of the 
contemporary art organization Careof, and curator 
of DOCVA, Documentation Center for Visual Arts of 
Milan - has been invited to follow the project, 
by supporting the training activity of the 
artists in residency and organizing moments of 
exchange with the local art scene (studio visits, 
meetings with collectors, etc.).

The goal of the project is not only to offer the 
participants a chance of professional growth, but 
also to put forward an occasion to address the 
theme of social practices in contemporary art: 
through the use of different media, social 
practice puts relations between people, idea 
exchange, and interaction between artist and the 
audience at the centre of the artistic process. 
By giving creativity total freedom from any 
structured aesthetic theory, social practice in 
art fosters the development of collaborative 
projects.



At the end of the residency program in May 2010, 
the works produced by the artists in Villasor 
will be exhibited in a show set up in the former 
Convent of the Capuchins of Villasor (opening 15 
May 2010). The exhibition will be documented by a 
bilingual Italian and English catalogue.



Participation in the residency program is free, 
and includes the following services: a studio 
with internet connection; open space area for 
group activity; town library and multimedia 
library for documentation; production expenses 
managed by the visiting professor on the basis of 
each artist's requirements. Travel expenses are 
to be covered by the participants that are also 
required to bring their own personal equipment 
such as camera, video camera, laptop etc.



Applicants must be over eighteen, have at least 
three years' professional experience in 
contemporary art, a good knowledge of English and 
attitude towards collaborative projects/social 
practices. The selected artists will include one 
from Sardinia.





Applications can be sent in from 11 January 2010 
from the website http://www.levillematte.it/

Applications must be filled in online in the 
specific area of the website by 28 February 2010 
and must be accompanied by the following material:



- digital ID

- filled in application form

- pdf portfolio including a cv, images of one's work and texts

- 5 images of past works

- up to 3 audio files for sound artists

- up to 3 videos or excerpts (with links to 
youtube, vimeo, google video etc.) for video 
artists



LE VILLE MATTE includes other two residencies: 
one dedicated to music, from 25 June to 24 July 
2010, and one dedicated to writing, scheduled 
between September and October 2010. At the end of 
the entire project a final publication will be 
released.





Title: International call for the residency 
program LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts

Visiting professor: Giancarlo Norese

Guest curator: Chiara Agnello

Promoted by: The Province of Cagliari - Cultural and Sport Policy Office

In collaboration with: Careof DOCVA

Coordinators: Giorgio Murtas, Francesca Sassu

Opening of the call: 11 January 2010

End of the call: 28 February 2010

Dates of the residency: 14 April - 15 May 2010

Exhibition opening: 15 May 2010

Where: Villasor, Cagliari, Italy

Info: tel.+39 070 4092329, fax +39 070 4092312, info at levillematte.it
http://www.levillematte.it/


National and International press office: Marta 
Colombo +39 340 3442805 martacolombo at gmail.com;

Regional press office: Stefania Giganti +39 329 
3604710 sgiganti at provincia.cagliari.it