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From: Andreas Broeckmann <ab la mikro.in-berlin.de>
Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Intl residency program in Italy "LE VILLE MATTE -
visual arts"


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 la 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 la levillematte.it
http://www.levillematte.it/


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

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



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