Group Residency Programme, Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO
Thurs 02 Oct – Thurs 09 Oct 2025
Application Deadline: Mon 14 April 2025
The Museum of Loss and Renewal is delighted to invite applications for the Group Residency MICRO-MACRO, Italy.
The Group Residency is devised around the relationships of ‘place, people and time’ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise.
MICRO-MACRO will be lead by Tracy Mackenna (she/her), Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal working in partnership with Amanda Crabtree (she/her), Director and Lead Curator of artconnexion, France. Tracy and Amanda have in common expertise that includes internationally presented and tested approaches to the relationships between art, place, society and audiences and they work across gallery, museum, site-specific, participatory and socially engaged practices, mediation-production and commissioning. Additional subject-specific sessions will be delivered by a range of multidisciplinary experts.
MICRO-MACRO is offered for practitioners and researchers working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of site and place. The group will comprise of approx. nine participants.
FOCAL POINTS
Creative practices
Interdisciplinarity
Technologies
Co-learning
Individual practice
Experimentation
Semi-structured programme
Expert facilitator/s and guest contributors
Collective platform for encounters
Supportive, caring, non-hierarchical environment
Fully catered
Immersive experience
Relationships to land, connections through place
Location specific
Site (responsiveness)
Cultural and environmental ecologies
Memory (ecological, material, ruin)
Imagining futures
Publics; participants and audiences
AIM
The residency experience will stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation. MICRO-MACRO establishes global perspectives, understandings, protocols and (digital)methods for intercultural collaboration and enables residency participants to approach Collemacchia’s community and environment with care.
FEE
The Residency Programme is operated on a non-commercial cost-covering basis, and is financially supported by The Museum of Loss and Renewal in order to keep fees low. The residency fee is €1750 (Euro) paid by the resident. It includes the residency programme, accommodation, full board, collection/return to nearest train/bus station, accommodation in a variety of spacious rooms, excellent studio spaces and catering (3 meals each day).
More information about the Group Residency Programme, Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO:
APPLICATION
Application Deadline: Mon 14 April 2025
Applications for the Group Residency Programme, Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO can be made via the Application Form on The Museum of Loss and Renewal website:
Please note that feedback on unsuccessful applications cannot be provided.
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