Individual Residency Programme Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO

Individual Residency Programme Italy – TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO

Applications are considered on a rolling basis. 

The Individual Residency programme takes place in Collemacchia, Italy.

Residents are supported with conditions that are vital to their artistic development: creative freedom, uninterrupted period in a caring and curated environment within which to conduct self-directed in-depth focused research and practice.

Applications are open to creative practitioners such as visual artists, film makers, writers, designers, musicians, and researchers who work either individually or collaboratively. Individuals and groups are welcomed to the residency.

FOCAL POINTS

– Time: to produce, reflect, explore, focus

– Individual practice

– International peer-group of fellow residents

– Interdisciplinarity

– Sharing

– No expectation of a final outcome

– Excellent studio / working space

– Excellent accommodation

– Library: art, design, architecture, curating, collecting, (art)writing, publishing, walking …

– Natural environment of exceptional significance, accessible from the doorstep

– Local amenities within walking distance

– Curators’ local knowledge; history and contemporary environment

– Introductions to relevant local and regional expertise, collections, sites

– Critique of work in progress lead by The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s curator/s

– Social media presence: updates during period in residence

LOCATION

The residency is situated in Collemacchia, a small village within Italy’s National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, a protected area of exceptional significance and beauty.

The village of Collemacchia has been home to artist and curator Tracy Mackenna’s Italian family for centuries and the curators of The Museum of Loss and Renewal foster strong links with the local community (many of whom are Scots-Italians) which is highly supportive of the Residency Programmes.

The area is sparsely populated by villages that are largely trilingual Italian-French-English due to the large community of Italian emigrants who continually move between European nations, Canada, Scotland and USA, stemming from economic migration dating from approx. 1850.

FEE

€450 per week; excellent accommodation, studios, library, tools. The residency fee is heavily subsidised and additionally, residents receive support and mentoring during the residency period, and ongoing support after the residency.