Call for applications: Artist residency in Italy

The residency programme is part of Alexandria: (Re)activating Common Urban Imaginaries – a three-year project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union (EU) in 2020. The project aims to survey the European cities of Athens, Brussels, Marseille, and Nicosia through the lens of Alexandria and its contested urban imaginaries.

Sixteen participants will be selected to partake in a field, discursive and practice-based programme in conversation with the residency curators, social entrepreneurs and a range of tutors and presenters working across diverse disciplines and contexts to be tailored to the group.

The programme covers travel, accommodation and meals. Participants will receive €3 000 ($3 600), payable per international and local laws. Additionally, each artist will have a budget of up to €500 to cover the production costs of their final projects. 

Note: The residency dates are provisional and contingent on the global development of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Travel and other residency activities are subject to being postponed between January and July 2022. 

Residency format

• Three residency paths will be offered for all participants.
• Two residency stays will be planned in Biella, Italy, for all participants
• One residency stay will be planned in Alexandria, Egypt, for all participants.
• One residency in one of the following cities – Marseille, Athens, Brussels or Nicosia – will be planned for each of the participants, depending on their individual choice.
• One final stay will be planned in Biella for the production and presentation of final projects.

Who can apply?

Applications are open to emerging and mid-career artists working in the following fields:

• Sound.
• Performance.
• Moving image.
• Painting and printmaking.
• Photography.
• Sculpture.
• Text.

Cultural practitioners and activists informed by and concerned with archival research, knowledge production, placemaking and/or community-based engagement are also encouraged to apply.

Eligibility

The applicant must:

• Demonstrate commitment towards generating new insights around urban histories and dynamics, coloniality and power formations, infrastructures and networks, and maritime cultures and poetics.
• Be fluent in English.
• Currently reside within:
  • One of the following countries of the EU Southern Neighbourhood: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
  • An EU member state, or the UK.
  • An EU pre-accession country: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey.
  • A European Free Trade Association member state: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

How to apply

• Interested applicants should complete the application form here.
• Selected participants will be notified by the end of June. The final list of participants will be announced on the organisers’ and project partners’ websites and social media platforms.

The application deadline is 30 May at 11.59pm CAT.

For inquiries, send an email to unidee@cittadellarte.it.

View the original call here.