AiR Carpintarias 2019
Type
Residency
Category
Digital, Drawing, Film, Installation, Intervention...
Status
Archived
Deadline
August 29, 2019
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
AIR CARPINTARIAS / CARPINTARIAS DE SãO LáZARO
Location
Lisbon, Portugal

This AiR is organized by the Fine Arts Department / Carpintarias de São Lázaro and will be take place within the center, in a close relationship to the neighborhood its part of, the city and the local arts community.
Carpintarias de São Lázaro is located in the historical city center of Lisbon, a very special area, marked by a huge variety of multicultural communities in the vicinity. Last time the City council counted, the people living and working near Martim Moniz Square belonged to over 100 different cultural communities: with the the strongest presences from Africa, Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, but you can also find people from Brazil, Nepal, Ukraine and Russia. On a first glance, all these communities seam to be very different from each other, but they have characteristics they share, as e.g. their dedication to work, normally connected to commerce, and their traditional lifestyle closely linked to their original home countries, therefore these people normally do not search for new contemporary contexts.

The goal of this year’s AiR Carpintarias 2019 is to challenge the artists to create strategies in how to interact with the people from the multicultural communities, confronting them with the new contemporary cultural center Carpintarias de São Lázaro.
Thus, we are interested in proposals that reflect on the relativization of these cultural differences through contemporary creation, establishing approaches, where tradition does not impede the creation of new shared cultural contexts, helping foster the creation of new collective perceptions.

Therefore, the applicants have to present a proposal for a strategy of concrete interaction for the different communities with the cultural center. The formats can differ, be it workshops and meetings, taking pictures or making videos, the aim is to develop a project together with the neighbors. Ideally, the final presentation would count with the participation of the members of the communities identified and contacted with.


Please go to https://carpintariasdesaolazaro.org/AiR-2019 to download the Official Regulation for the Open Call AiR Carpintarias 2019.