UNIDEE Residency Programs, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Kimonos Art Center have announced a joint open call for a four-week Research Residency between Cyprus and Italy for an international artist or researcher, who will spend two weeks in Paphos from 6-20 November 2023 and two weeks in Biella from 21 November - 5 December 2023, supported by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.
The Research Residency is created to support emerging artists, researchers and cultural practitioners with a situated and embedded practice. It is an opportunity to develop or continue their artistic research linked to a socially responsible transformation, and specifically to environmental and ecological issues.
Applicants are invited to propose a research project in line with the philosophy of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise and his Manifesto Progetto Arte (1994): ‘Art is the most sensitive and complete expression of human thought, and the time has come for artists to take on the responsibility of establishing ties among all other human activities, from economics to politics, science to religion, education to behaviour; in a word, among the threads that make up the fabric of society.’
The Research Residency in Paphos and Biella is meant to provide time and space to explore geographically and culturally different territories, to question common precarious climatic conditions, learning from local experience, and develop artistic practice or research related to ecology and climate change.
The four-week long residency offered through this joint grant includes:
- Travel expenses up to 400€.
- Per diem of 800€ gross.
- Accommodation in Paphos and Biella.
- Guidance and support during the residency from both teams of Kimonos and UNIDEE.
The residency is open to international emerging practitioners (artists, curators, writers, activists, cultural practitioners, etc) from different backgrounds and with different practices in the fields of socially engaged art and social practice, curatorial practice and community organisation.
