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<td style="padding:0px 0px 15px 0px" width="100%" class=""><span style="color:#666;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">Cittadellarte – Fondazione
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<h1 style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" class="">Call for
applications: UNIDEE - University of Ideas 2016</h1>
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<td style="padding:0 0 10px 0" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><b class="">UNIDEE - University of Ideas</b><br class=""> Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus<br class=""> Via G. B. Serralunga
27<br class=""> 13900 Biella<br class=""> Italy<br class=""> <br class=""><a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee" target="_blank" class="">www.cittadellarte.it/unidee</a><br class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></td>
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<td style="padding:25px 0 30px 0;border-top:2px dotted #666;border-bottom:2px dotted #666" class=""><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">To <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">apply</span></a>, and for application deadlines: see specific
modules<br class=""> <br class=""> <b class="">UNIDEE - University of
Ideas </b>launched in 2015 <span class="">within the unique and special
context of </span><span style="text-decoration:underline" class=""><a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/" target="_blank" class="">Cittadellarte - Pistoletto
Foundation</a></span><span class=""> in Biella</span>. Having inherited a
long experience of residencies for international artists
(2000–<span class="">13), </span>the experimental educational prototype
or model combines theory with practice. <br class=""> <br class=""> UNIDEE -
University of Ideas offers an educational programme based on a weekly
research and project laboratory under the guidance of a mentor who is an
expert in the theme of that specific module; as well as the active
participation of a guest with the objective of examining the topics in
their complexity and many facets, trying to maintain a balance of the
thought forms (theories) and free or unforeseeable situations (creative
processes).<br class=""> <br class=""> Through its residential dynamics, UNIDEE is
designed to form artivators, people who intend to use art as a methodology,
practice and language, becoming agents for the activation of responsible
actions and processes to be carried out in the territories in which they
live and their professional activities.<br class=""> <br class=""> Encouraged by the high
number of participants (111 presences from 16 different countries) and
their enthusiastic feedback and proposals for future developments to 2015's
experimental model, the intention for 2016 is to continue to analyse and
thus fine-tune this educational method through the close examination of
three other macro-topics: <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/statement.html" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class=""><b class="">research, gift and
alteration</b></span></a>. With an interdisciplinary approach and in
accordance with the trinamic principle<i class=""> </i>of Michelangelo Pistoletto,
the three semantic areas are considered in their inter-relationships as
sites for generating forms of resistance, new possibilities in meaning, and
social transformation.<br class=""> <b class=""></b><br class=""> <b class="">The mentors and guests for
2016</b> are (in order of appearance): <br class=""><a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=68" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Expodium (Nikos Doulos and Bart
Witte)</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=69" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Jason Waite with Adelita
Husni-Bey</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=70" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Lara Almarcegui with Marco
Giardino</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=71" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Cesare Pietroiusti with Aldo
Spinelli</span></a>; Martino Gamper with Visible (Matteo Lucchetti and
Judith Wielander)<a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=78" target="_blank" class=""></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=79" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Giusy Checola with L'Italia<i class="">
</i>cheCambia and Transition Town Biella</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=80" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Maddalena Marciano with Claudia Losi
and in collaboration with Fashion Office of Cittadellarte/
B.E.S.T</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=72" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Attila Faravelli and Enrico Malatesta
with Nicola Ratti</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=73" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Luigi Coppola with Daniel Blanga
Gubbay</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=74%22http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=74" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Antoni Muntadas with Alessandra
Messali</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=75" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Adrian Paci with Edi Muka and Tea
Çuni</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=76" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Aria Spinelli with Núria
Güell</span></a>; <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=77" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić and
Marc Neelen) with Erik Jutten and Piet Vollaard</span></a>; Daria Filardo
with Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Michelangelo Pistoletto. <br class=""> <br class=""> Among the weekly residencies, 2016 UNIDEE programme will open to
two new experimental modules lasting two weeks in collaboration with<b class="">
STEALTH.unlimited </b>(second week taking place @ Stoking House at City in
the Making in Rotterdam) and with<b class=""> Adrian Paci </b>(second week taking
place @ Art House in Shkodër, Albania). The desire to expand the two
laboratories in space and time come from the singularity of the proposed
contexts, able to offer new pathways of sense and content to the collective
discussions begun in Cittadellarte, and thus offer a more articulate
critical analysis of the macro-themes being studied. <br class=""> <br class=""> In
2016, the historic support of the <b class="">Fondazione Zegna</b> in the
development of the UNIDEE programme will be consolidated through the
co-project of a laboratory and research module conducted by <b class="">Martino
Gamper</b>.<br class=""> <br class=""> The originality of the UNIDEE programme to invent
new residential formats lies in its collaborations with<b class=""> Universities and
Fine</b> <b class="">Arts Academies </b>(students gain ECTS credits upon a
negotiated<i class=""> </i>agreement<i class="">), </i>and in its development and achievement
of the two projects co-financed by the European Union: <i class="">Ottomans
and Europeans</i> and <i class="">Understanding Territoriality: Identity, Place
& Possession – TIPP</i>. How the long-production residency
remains aimed at international artists will be determined by collaborations
with institutional partners: <b class="">Illycaffé s.p.a., Inlaks Shivdasani
Foundation, Qattan A. M. Foundation, the RESÓ network</b>, without
forgetting the <b class="">Unfunded Residency </b>and the<b class=""> Connective
Residency</b>.<br class=""><br class=""> <span class="">For further informations and applications
please visit the UNIDEE - University of Ideas <a href="http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee" target="_blank" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">website</span></a></span><span class=""> or contact </span><a href="mailto:unidee@cittadellarte.it" target="_blank" class=""><span class="">unidee@cittadellarte.it</span></a><br class=""> <br class=""> Programme Director and Curator: Cecilia Guida<br class=""> Programme
Coordinator: Roberta Bernasconi<br class=""> Assistant Director and Curator:
Giulia Crisci<br class=""> <br class=""> Programme developed by Cecilia Guida for UNIDEE
and Educational Office of Cittadellarte, in collaboration with Juan Esteban
Sandoval (Art Office), under the supervision of Paolo Naldini.<br class=""><br class=""></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>
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