Residency Aurora Borealis – Funded Artists Residency Programme
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: February 23, 2025 – AURORA BOREALIS is the title of a proposal that aims to add, through the imaginative and transformative power of art and beauty, a Boreal imagery to Aurora, the youngest and most “real” neighborhood in Turin. This is based on the premise that art is not an “exclusive” language, but an accessible and inclusive one, through which individuals and communities can not only feel represented but also become protagonists of processes to transform their habitat, actively becoming promoters of change and appropriation of the contexts in which they live.
The project includes a residency program for artists who are invited to transform from creators into community activators through the creation of public art works, realized through participatory processes conducted by the resident artists, which respond to the desires and needs of the community and will be donated to the community, finding placement in public or private spaces throughout the neighborhood.
The project includes three main actions:
- The creation of Borealis, the new cultural and social center of the Aurora district, characterized by a schedule of activities and events defined through a co-programming process with stakeholders and local residents: ASSEMBLEA BOREALE.
- The creation of public art works, realized through participatory processes conducted by resident artists, which respond to the desires and needs of the community and will be donated to the community, finding placement in public or private spaces throughout the neighborhood.
- A new residency program for artists hosted at viadellafucina16 condominio-museo, who are invited to transform from creators into community activators and to lead training and participatory creation processes.
The project asserts the role of creativity and imagination as tools for social transformation and aims to generate a sense of civic responsibility among young people and the so-called vulnerable groups. These groups are called upon, both as recipients and active participants, to intervene in the territory where they live through relational and participatory artistic practices, to envision the future of their neighborhood. The planned group activities will be an important moment of training for both the artists and the beneficiaries, who will acquire specific technical-artistic skills and transversal competences such as creativity and critical thinking, to feel like active members of the community where they will find a recognized space for action. Furthermore, among the objectives is to increase the city’s heritage of public art works in marginalized urban areas, by inviting new artistic entities to operate in relation to the territory and highlighting the city and its tangible and intangible heritage.
Aurora Borealis represents a unique artist residency format on an international level, in which the relationship between the artist and the community is central in all phases of the process:
- in the commissioning and selection of artistic projects
- in the design and creation of artworks
- in the enjoyment and final return
Mission of the artists: The artists are called to transform from creators into community activators and to propose collective creation paths aimed at specific groups of beneficiaries (young residents of the neighborhood, young artists, students, women’s groups, young migrants, young people with disabilities, etc.)
Benefits of the residency programme:
- a fee of 1600 euros
- an initial collective masterclass
- coverage of production costs for the artwork
- hospitality at viadellafucina16 condominio-museo (independent accommodation)
- workspace and area for conducting workshops
- technical assistance during the creation of the artwork
- cultural mediators for interaction with the beneficiaries of the co-creation processes
- curatorial support, press office, and networking
- video-photographic documentation of the residency
- possibility to organize public talks and other presentations
- in special cases, a partial or total reimbursement of travel costs will be considered
ELIGIBILITY
The call is open to artists active in any discipline who have a previous exhibition record and prior experience in participatory artistic practices.
When applying, artists are required to document their artistic journey and present a draft of the project they intend to realize.
SELECTIONS
The scientific committee—composed of distinguished figures from the world of contemporary arts and social innovation—will select a shortlist of finalist projects, of high artistic quality and social impact, to be submitted to the Boreal Assembly: a committee that citizens, associations, entities, and companies from the territory can spontaneously join.
Through this process, a total of six projects will be selected to access the residency program.
APPLY ONLINE – No Fee
About:
kaninchenhaus is a non-profit organization based in Turin, in the Porta Palazzo / Aurora district, and active, both locally and internationally, in the field of contemporary art and culture.
kaninchenhaus produces and organizes art exhibitions, theater performances, editorial publications, audio-visual works, training courses, artist residency programs based on experimental formats.
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