Milano Mediterranea is a decolonial participatory art center.
A diffuse archive of collective practices that through the performing arts interacts with territories and communities to activate processes of interconnection between people and new aesthetics of the contemporary.
Milano Mediterranea is structured thanks to a program of creative residencies aimed at artistsз with migrant backgrounds residing in Italy and interested in working in interaction with the
Giambellino-Lorenteggio neighborhood translating their artistic research into an exercise of decoloniality, understood as a space of experimentation to open up to new practices of relationship,
creation and narration.
The projects will be selected by a Neighborhood Committee together with the artistic direction of Milano Mediterranea and will be invited to participate in a co-production residency with the Cultural Production Center BASE Milano.
The production of the art projects in residence will take place in dialogue with the network of neighborhood spaces and realities identified based on the specific needs of the area and connections
with the art projects presented.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Emerging performance actions of different kinds are eligible for the call, including: performance, sound and new media art, text-based performance, lecture performance, multimedia storytelling,
choreographic practices, relational practices and workshop-based projects.
Eligible to participate in the call are professionalз artists with no age limit, with migrant backgrounds residing in Italy, who have interaction with people, communities and territories at the heart of their artistic journey. The Artistic Direction and the Neighborhood Committee will evaluate applications from people who identify themselves as racialized subjects in a rewarding manner.
In addition to the production of the selected project, and the realization of a public outcome, we ask for the willingness to offer an intensive workshop (duration and modalities to be agreed upon with the direction).
WHAT WE OFFER
Two artistic residencies will be activated, one dedicated to an artistз of the Milanese territory and one open to the national territory. Each residency includes an accompaniment to adapt the project to the territorial reality (choice of spaces, interaction with the local network) by the artistic and organizational direction lasting one week.
One month of productive residency.
A gross cachet of 1,500 €. The necessary technical board will be borne by the organization, consistent with the available budget.
The organization will also offer logistical support to the implementation of the project, its outcome and the intensive workshop as well as communication promotion on its own channels and through its Press Office.
The artistic residency selected on a national basis will also have access to artist3 hospitality within the creative ecosystem of BASE Milano, a partner of Milano Mediterranea https://base.milano.it/residenze/
HOW TO APPLY
Send a dossier containing: presentation of the project (with description of the process to be activated) seminar hypothesis (draft of an ‘idea to be adapted in dialogue with management)
artistic portfolio/link to online documentation to direzioneartistica@milanomediterranea.org by January 26, 2024.
We ask you to report a period of availability between:
Residency 1
March 15-April 15, 2024 with availability the second week of March for accompaniment
Residency 2
November 2024 with availability the last week of October for accompaniment The artistic direction and neighborhood selection committee will view the materials during January and
February 2024, notifying the selectatə by February 26, 2024. In co-production with BASE Milano, a multi-functional cultural center serving the city that was born from the regeneration of the ex-Ansaldo industrial spaces in the Tortona area. A Cultural Production Center with an international atmosphere where research, experimentation and social design activities
co-exist with the production and co-production of cultural and entertainment initiatives, including artistic residency processes and a year-round active public program, festivals dedicated to design and art, and musical events.
The 2024 program is in cooperation with Allianz Foundation, a charitable foundation that works to foster new approaches for the active involvement of young people for a livable future, as winners of the foundation’s grant program. A scientific and artistic selection committee, chaired by visual artist Kader Attia, chose Milano Mediterranea as one of the European projects with a strong social and transformative impact for societies of the present, and the future.
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