Group Residency Programme, Italy: Place, People and Time: PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Group Residency Programme, Italy

Place, People and Time: PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Tues 23 Sept – Tues 30 Sept 2025

Application Deadline: Mon 14 April 2025

The Museum of Loss and Renewal is delighted to invite applications for the Group Residency PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE, Italy.

This Group Residency has been devised by Tracy Mackenna (she/her), Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal in partnership with publishing artist and independent curator Fernanda Aránguiz M. (she/her) of PUBLICAR, Santiago, Chile.

PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE will be lead by Tracy Mackenna and Fernanda Aránguiz M. who share a passion for the design, production, publishing and dissemination of printed matter and digital publications. Additional subject-specific sessions will be delivered by multidisciplinary experts.

It is offered for creative practitioners and researchers working with printed matter and publishing as an artistic practice and for those who have a strong interest in this area. The group will comprise of approx. nine participants.

FOCAL POINTS

• Interdisciplinarity
• Immersive experience
• Materiality and form
• Image – text relationships
• Technological innovation
• Readings of alternative theories and texts
• Experimentation
• Co-learning
• Individual practice
• Collective knowledge
• Semi-structured programme
• Expert facilitator/s and guest contributors
• Supportive, caring, non-hierarchical environment
• Peer and self reflection
• Fully catered
• Publics; participants and audiences
• Collective publication
• Natural environment of exceptional significance

AIM

The aim of this residency is to provide a supportive and stimulating environment to develop your production skills and knowledge of artists’ publications, printed matter and publishing as an artistic practice. Alongside individual practice, the residency will have a focus on knowledge exchange, creating opportunities to learn from each other.

Opportunities are created for creative practitioners and researchers to share and establish a bank of knowledge and creative strategies, both globally interconnected and hyper local, digital and analogue, for imagining new responses to publications and publishing. Bringing together residents from a range of areas of practice and research, the potential to create an international network is made possible.

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 Programme, Italy: PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE:

https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/group-residency-programme-italy/place-people-and-time-publishing-as-an-artistic-practice/

APPLICATION

Application Deadline: Mon 14 April 2025

Applications for the Group Residency Programme, Italy: PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE  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.