[ecrea] Weekly residential modules in Italy at UNIDEE - Cittadellarte

UNIDEE - University of Ideas

Call for applications, Spring & Summer Terms, 2015
To apply (www.cittadellarte.it/unidee), and for application deadlines: 
see specific modules

UNIDEE - University of Ideas
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus
Via G. B. Serralunga 27
13900 Biella - ITALY

www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
contact: (unidee /at/ cittadellarte.it)
www.facebook.com/unideeuniversityofideas
www.twitter.com/Unidee2015

UNIDEE - University of Ideas at Cittadellarte in Biella (Italy) is a 
multifaceted educational platform investigating the relationship between 
art and public sphere, through a new programme of weekly residential 
modules based on interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and 
experience exchange, alongside a series of artists’ residency projects.

The programme, developed by Cecilia Guida in collaboration with Juan 
Esteban Sandoval, kicks off on 04.05.2015, and focuses on three broad 
concepts: temporality, responsibility, participation, encompassing art 
history, activism, commons, politics, territorial transformation, 
museology, visual narratives, social imagery, relational systems, 
rituals, social cooking, urban space (etc.).

The Spring/ Summer programme

04-08.05.2015 (Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico)

How do the masses of data making up Ubiquitous Infoscapes radically 
transform our lives and perception of the world? How do they affect 
public, private, intimate spaces, our rights, approach to 
knowledge-sharing, learning, expression and communication?

Deadline: 04.04.2015



11-15.05.2015 (Silvia Franceschini with Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Beyond 
Entropy)

Changing nothing so that everything is different reflects on the idea of 
the city and its post-industrial evolution in Europe, while questioning 
artistic practices' role in gentrification processes, also taking 
Cittadellarte as a case study of regeneration.

Deadline: 11.04.2015



18-22.05.2015 (Aria Spinelli with Tullio Brunone)

Curating as a form of assembly focuses on alternative modes of thinking 
society. It discusses and enacts how ‘curating’, through imaginative 
forms of political emancipation, can shift power relations between 
artists, authors and contexts.

Deadline: 18.04.2015





25-29.05.2015 (Massimiliano Viel)

Through theory, listening experiences and practical laboratories, 
Patterns and Music proposes music production techniques, alongside 
strategies to deal with music in its broadest acceptation, unmasking the 
conceptual frame of cognitive patterns when dealing with the evolution 
of music structures.

Deadline: 25.04.2015





08-12.06.2015 (Emilia Telese with Richard Shields)

By addressing practical matters (rates of pay, fundraising, marketing, 
proposal writing, effective networking, interaction with the art world, 
… ), The Artist as Entrepreneur: relationships between artists, society, 
markets and world economy provides tools for working internationally as 
an independent professional artist.

Deadline: 08.05.2015



15-19.06.2015 (Giulia Grechi with Fiamma Montezemolo)

How can we turn a museum from a temple for conservation of essential 
categories, into a new affective site where to activate dynamics? 
Performing Anthropology aims to unmask the assumptions beneath our 
cultural understanding of key concepts like museum, archive, modernity, 
in relation to time, space, identity.

Deadline: 15.05.2015



22-26.06.2015 (Saioa Olmo Alonso with Sabel Gavaldón)

Group Matters is a methodology in progress exploring relational 
mechanisms within groups to develop a type of knowledge applicable to 
participatory art projects and the transformative potential of art 
concerning power relations within social structures.

Deadline: 22.05.2015



29.06-03.07.2015 (Giusy Checola with Thomas Gilardi)

The artistic production of the common between territorialization and 
(re)localisation focuses on the spatial and symbolic production of the 
common in art and place-making practices, meant as a tool for 
territorialization processes and (re)localisation of artistic practices 
within socio-cultural contexts. Deadline: 29.05.2015



31.08-04.09.2015 (Federica Martini with Anne-Julie Raccoursier)

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: contemporary art 
histories and other news investigates the writing of art histories in 
contemporary artistic research practices, the notions of responsibility 
and collective authorship and our relationship to archives, documents, 
artworks and oral histories produced by art scenes.

Deadline: 07.07.2015



07.09-19.09.2015(Christian Nyampeta, Sofia Olascoaga, Sakiko Sugawa, 
Jason Waite)

What do we have in Common? is an experiment in living, learning and 
working together. an horizontal learning school focusing on the 
personal, political and aesthetic horizons of the commons. It emphasizes 
the importance of acknowledging maintenance work and collective 
caretaking as an integral to working toward enacting a common practice.

Deadline: 15.06.2015



The programme continues during Fall 2015 with:

Alessandra Donati, raumlaborberlin; Beatrice Catanzaro; Ana Dzokic & 
Marc Neelen (STEALTH.unlimited); Santiago Reyes Villaveces with Manuel 
Ángel Marcia; Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna with Attila Faravelli; 
Matteo Lucchetti & Judith Wielander (visible project) with Ahmet Ögüt 
and Jonas Staal; Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective) with Rasmus 
Nielsen (Superflex); Omer Krieger.


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Elisa Tosoni
Education Office
UNIDEE-University of Ideas
Programme Coordinator
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus

www.cittadellarte.it/unidee  |  www.facebook.com/unideeuniversityofideas
|  twitter.com/Unidee2015

skype: elisatosoni
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