Group Residency Programme, Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO

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).

You will be responsible for funding and organising your own travel, your own insurances and any visa requirements particular to your country of origin. Detailed travel information will be supplied (closest airports Naples, Rome), and collection/drop-off at a local train station will be arranged.

We do not have external funding for this project, so regret that we are unable to offer assistance with fees, flights, production costs or other subsistence. Typically, successful applicants source funding by applying to their national arts funding bodies, personal fundraising, or through academic institutional support. Formal letters of invitation can be provided to assist in this process.

More information about the Group Residency Italy: MICRO-MACRO:

https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/group-residency-programme-italy/place-people-and-time-micro-macro/

APPLICATION

Application Deadline: Mon 14 April 2025

Applications for the Group Residency Programme, Italy: MICRO-MACRO, can be made via the Application Form on The Museum of Loss and Renewal website: 

https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/group-residency-programme-italy/application-information/

Please note that feedback on unsuccessful applications cannot be provided.