Moving Landscape : appel d’offre pour un programme d’artistes en résidence

Moving Landscape

Artists’ residency program 2014

Location: Lecce, Italy. Terms of participation and deadline: applications must be submitted to francescobuonerba(at)neropepe.it and files mustn’t exceed 10mb size. The applications must be presented by midnight (Italian time) on July 15, 2014. Duration: 18 days between September and December 2014.

About the residency

Moving Landscape #2 is a workshop open to both national and international visual artists, without age limitations. The project aims to jumpstart a study of the landscape, specifically the parts of it crossed or influenced by the railway, and to build a discourse on the dialogue between, travel/land/crossing. Moving Landscape takes form following the need to give a new and alternative aesthetic value to the territory touched by the railway and to the anthropological consideration that it sparks. Its goal is to supply monetary support and an organizational setup to artistic research.

Informations

The residency program duration is of 18 days split between September and December 2014. Deadline 15 July 2014. Participation in the competition is free. Each selected artist will receive a grant of 2,200 euro.

Moving Landscape info PDF

Moving Landscape FAQ PDF

To apply please send the following:

– CV in PDF format (Italian or English);
– Portfolio;
– One or more proposals for the workshop with an abstract in PDF format and useful attachments (pictures and diagrams);
– optional: reviews, websites, catalogues.

For further information and FAQ visit  : www.neropepe.it

Grant: Each selected artist will receive a grant of 2,200 Euro.

About PepeNero

PepeNero is a non-profit organization. Since 2011 it sustains and start initiatives aimed to spark participatory processes of active citizenship about revivification of non­functioning public spaces supporting diversification of local enterprises. With the project ‘Rete dei Caselli Sud Est’ it launches the reclamation and the re­-purposing of the Sud­Est railways’ crossing-keeper houses as essential subjects in the sociocultural development of the region.

Moving Landscape is a PepeNero project inside the frame of GAP, a territorial laboratory of art experimentation and contemporary languages. GAP is supported with the help of the Foundation ‘Con Il Sud’, inside the innovative and special projects on 2010, and with the contribution of the Puglia Region.

Moving Landscape concept

Southern Puglia, late 20th century, is a dense net of 400km of railways is the nexus of commerce and communication, transporting people and wares throughout the region. With the advent of paved roads and electricity, commerce change his routes and railways lose swiftly their supremacy as means of transport. Crossing-keeper’s houses lose their value and their task, get forgotten and with them is forgotten also the sense of community and the social life that surrounded them.

The aim of the project Rete dei Caselli Sud Est (Crossing Keeper’s Houses Network), launched by PepeNero in 2011, is to regain familiarity with the region, to build possible pathways, greenways on the pre-existent layout, mantaining the relation between the working and the social aspects of the keeper’s houses, to map places and verbal accounts, and in the meantime to walk cultural associations through the Keeper houses’ assignment process, seeing as, since about 10 years ago, management of disused keeper’s house was entrusted to cultural associations.

Between January and March 2012 they started mapping the old railways, and forsaken crossing keeper’s houses one by one, to acquire a first hand knowledge of the landscape and of the people that inhabit it, collecting stories and pictures. After two years of work the archive grows bigger and with a distinctiveness and importance stronger by the minute. Here they propose the chance to draw from all the archive materials to create something unique.

Contact
francescobuonerba(at)neropepe.it
Francesco Buonerba
T: +39 3381718437
www.neropepe.it

PepeNero Association
Via Stefanizzi, 5
73100 Lecce – Italy