NOSYMMETRIES
Type
Residency
Category
Activism, Intervention, Mixed Media
Status
Archived
Deadline
November 29, 2023
Application Fee
Free
Host
IDENSITAT CONTEMPORARY ART
Location
Barcelona, Spain
NOSYMMETRIES is a research project which will open up a variety of artistic processes linked to issues which are pertinent to three spheres in which social inequality takes a number of forms. The open call will seek out three projects to collaborate with a guest working group previously invited on account of its career-path and its socio-political involvement in grassroots projects and issues which tackle inequality.
The working methodology consists of a collaborative process during a month in Barcelona between an artist or collective, and one of the working groups invited to take part in the project. Each working group has predefined a specific research theme: Impulsem - Inequality and Employability-; Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales – A dance and a prison cell; Sex work and dissidences- ; Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi - The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. The artist or collective wishing to participate in this process will be selected through this open call, after submitting a proposal which must follow one of the predefined research fields.
NOSYMMETRIES will explore the concepts of critical imagination and social creativity from a variety of perspectives on social inequality. We understand the connection between critical imagination and social creativity as a collective process for gathering proposals which look beyond the visions of a permanent future state of collapse. In this case, the above concepts refer to activities resulting from a combination of responsibility, and individual and collective care as a way of contributing to a new collective imagination.
In order to achieve this objective, we offer 3 artistic residencies of one month, with each residency working in Barcelona with one of the invited groups. During this month, participants will interact, learn, and share their experiences and knowledge, and will also outline a joint outcome. This outcome may be realised after the conclusion of the month’s residency, and will be presented collectively, open to the general public.
Artists must submit a proposal for research and production of an artistic project in dialogue with one of the participating working groups. The working groups must contextualise the research, offering a sociopolitical response that integrates, as far as is possible, the dialogue which lends form to the temporary residency. Idensitat will be the promoting agent and mediator in the different phases of the process, with the aim of creating an intersection between critical imagination and social creativity; a task which will be undertaken in collaboration with La Capella Art Centre.
The participating artists must share methodology and sensitivity with one of the working groups in relation to themes such as sexual dissent, migration and borders, and education towards employability, based upon the concepts and conditions stated below. No symmetries refers to the need to create asymmetrical, dissident, alternative spaces in order to aspire to a symmetry that counteracts the increase in social inequality.
COLLABORATING WORKING GROUPS AND RESEARCH THEMES
IMPULSEM - Inequality and Employability
The working group on Inequality and Employability, led by Impulsem, will make use of their Educational Excellence programme with which they test new educational models to achieve individual and collective success by adapting to the needs and interests of individuals, and generating new academic and professional opportunities through co-responsibility and the promotion of real work spaces.
IMPULSEM is a non-profit social cooperative located in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood, in Barcelona’s Raval District. With a multidisciplinary team, they work to improve the quality of life of citizens, developing integrative actions within the social context, touching upon the fields of education, labour, and continuing education.
The aim is to work with young people through professional workshops, carpentry, jewellery, screen printing, textiles, or cooking, in a real learning context.
Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales- A dance and a prison cell; sex work and dissidences.
The working group Un baile y un calabozo: trabajos sexuales y disidencias led by Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales, proposes a space for dialogue, resistance, and critical thinking around the intersection between sex work and affective, sexual, and gender dissidences. It aims to expand and alter the visual imaginaries related to sex work and prosex activism based upon aesthetic, politic, and historical alliances between sex work and sexual dissidences.
To this end, the following themes are proposed as a starting points to develop a joint project: How much of the Law of Social Danger and Rehabilitation is currently in use through prohibitionist and censorious policies against sexuality and its economies? How may we invoke history, images, law, labour precariety and shared repression? Which bodies/imaginaries coexist in between the world of sex for cash and the realities LGTBIQAP+ communities?* Conversely, knowing that persecuted sexual practices are a risky business, How do we include care at the core of the realities of sex work? How may we create a kind of visibility that does not put us in danger?
This working group space has been conceived as a Trans*temporal meeting, beyond the mere identity; a link between artists, prosex activists, sex workers, and sexual and gender dissidents.
* We included the P for prostitute as a starting point, embracing collective and silent struggle.
Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi - The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
The working group The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism led by Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi, proposes a reflection upon how the machinery of racism is built from historical and anticolonial perspectives, compared to the widespread idea that racism is a prejudice.
The relationship that exists between patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism in the configuration of current societies will be analysed.Some of the questions they propose as a starting point for reflection are: How sex/gender, race, and capital are connected today? How much colonialism is there in the sex/gender system and heterosexuality? What is racial capitalism? How should we consider racism beyond ideology? What do we think about the issue of colonialism in the metropolis? Who are the colonial subjects in Europe?
The analysis from these perspectives pursues two objectives to be developed jointly with the participant group; firstly, identify the devices through which racism is reproduced, the immigration control industry, labour exploitation, borders, CIES (foreign detention centres), racialisation of domestic and care work, criminalisation of migrant youth, etc.; and secondly, provide analytical tools to (re)think anti-racist movements and struggles today.
WHO IS THE CALL AIMED AT?
The call is addressed to artists or collectives who have their current residence in Europe or a country that is part of the Mediterranean Basin, who may be interested in carrying out a work in collaboration, connection, or interaction with one of the proposed working groups, and on the basis of a temporary residency in Barcelona.
FEES AND RESOURCES OFFERED
- 2,000€ fee (taxes included).
- The production costs for the project outcomes will be covered up to a maximum of 1,000€ for each of the three projects realised by an artist and a working group. The budget will be evaluated between the organisation and the working group taking the needs of each project into consideration.
- Aid for travel expenses up to a maximum of 400€.
- The collaboration between Idensitat and La Capella Art Centre, as organisers, will provide accommodation for artists who do not live in Barcelona, a workplace to develop the project, and an exhibition space to present the results of the research.
*Due to limited budget for fees, travel and accommodation, we would suggest to collectives that only one member may attend the residency on-site.
DATES
- Deadline 29th November 2023
Residency in Barcelona must take place between January 15th and February 15th, 2024
MORE INFORMATION, TERMS AND APPLICATION FORM
https://www.idensitat.net/en/current-projects/care-ecologies/1774-nosymmetries-en
The working methodology consists of a collaborative process during a month in Barcelona between an artist or collective, and one of the working groups invited to take part in the project. Each working group has predefined a specific research theme: Impulsem - Inequality and Employability-; Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales – A dance and a prison cell; Sex work and dissidences- ; Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi - The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. The artist or collective wishing to participate in this process will be selected through this open call, after submitting a proposal which must follow one of the predefined research fields.
NOSYMMETRIES will explore the concepts of critical imagination and social creativity from a variety of perspectives on social inequality. We understand the connection between critical imagination and social creativity as a collective process for gathering proposals which look beyond the visions of a permanent future state of collapse. In this case, the above concepts refer to activities resulting from a combination of responsibility, and individual and collective care as a way of contributing to a new collective imagination.
In order to achieve this objective, we offer 3 artistic residencies of one month, with each residency working in Barcelona with one of the invited groups. During this month, participants will interact, learn, and share their experiences and knowledge, and will also outline a joint outcome. This outcome may be realised after the conclusion of the month’s residency, and will be presented collectively, open to the general public.
Artists must submit a proposal for research and production of an artistic project in dialogue with one of the participating working groups. The working groups must contextualise the research, offering a sociopolitical response that integrates, as far as is possible, the dialogue which lends form to the temporary residency. Idensitat will be the promoting agent and mediator in the different phases of the process, with the aim of creating an intersection between critical imagination and social creativity; a task which will be undertaken in collaboration with La Capella Art Centre.
The participating artists must share methodology and sensitivity with one of the working groups in relation to themes such as sexual dissent, migration and borders, and education towards employability, based upon the concepts and conditions stated below. No symmetries refers to the need to create asymmetrical, dissident, alternative spaces in order to aspire to a symmetry that counteracts the increase in social inequality.
COLLABORATING WORKING GROUPS AND RESEARCH THEMES
IMPULSEM - Inequality and Employability
The working group on Inequality and Employability, led by Impulsem, will make use of their Educational Excellence programme with which they test new educational models to achieve individual and collective success by adapting to the needs and interests of individuals, and generating new academic and professional opportunities through co-responsibility and the promotion of real work spaces.
IMPULSEM is a non-profit social cooperative located in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood, in Barcelona’s Raval District. With a multidisciplinary team, they work to improve the quality of life of citizens, developing integrative actions within the social context, touching upon the fields of education, labour, and continuing education.
The aim is to work with young people through professional workshops, carpentry, jewellery, screen printing, textiles, or cooking, in a real learning context.
Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales- A dance and a prison cell; sex work and dissidences.
The working group Un baile y un calabozo: trabajos sexuales y disidencias led by Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales, proposes a space for dialogue, resistance, and critical thinking around the intersection between sex work and affective, sexual, and gender dissidences. It aims to expand and alter the visual imaginaries related to sex work and prosex activism based upon aesthetic, politic, and historical alliances between sex work and sexual dissidences.
To this end, the following themes are proposed as a starting points to develop a joint project: How much of the Law of Social Danger and Rehabilitation is currently in use through prohibitionist and censorious policies against sexuality and its economies? How may we invoke history, images, law, labour precariety and shared repression? Which bodies/imaginaries coexist in between the world of sex for cash and the realities LGTBIQAP+ communities?* Conversely, knowing that persecuted sexual practices are a risky business, How do we include care at the core of the realities of sex work? How may we create a kind of visibility that does not put us in danger?
This working group space has been conceived as a Trans*temporal meeting, beyond the mere identity; a link between artists, prosex activists, sex workers, and sexual and gender dissidents.
* We included the P for prostitute as a starting point, embracing collective and silent struggle.
Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi - The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
The working group The structures of racism: capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism led by Florencia Brizuela and Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi, proposes a reflection upon how the machinery of racism is built from historical and anticolonial perspectives, compared to the widespread idea that racism is a prejudice.
The relationship that exists between patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism in the configuration of current societies will be analysed.Some of the questions they propose as a starting point for reflection are: How sex/gender, race, and capital are connected today? How much colonialism is there in the sex/gender system and heterosexuality? What is racial capitalism? How should we consider racism beyond ideology? What do we think about the issue of colonialism in the metropolis? Who are the colonial subjects in Europe?
The analysis from these perspectives pursues two objectives to be developed jointly with the participant group; firstly, identify the devices through which racism is reproduced, the immigration control industry, labour exploitation, borders, CIES (foreign detention centres), racialisation of domestic and care work, criminalisation of migrant youth, etc.; and secondly, provide analytical tools to (re)think anti-racist movements and struggles today.
WHO IS THE CALL AIMED AT?
The call is addressed to artists or collectives who have their current residence in Europe or a country that is part of the Mediterranean Basin, who may be interested in carrying out a work in collaboration, connection, or interaction with one of the proposed working groups, and on the basis of a temporary residency in Barcelona.
FEES AND RESOURCES OFFERED
- 2,000€ fee (taxes included).
- The production costs for the project outcomes will be covered up to a maximum of 1,000€ for each of the three projects realised by an artist and a working group. The budget will be evaluated between the organisation and the working group taking the needs of each project into consideration.
- Aid for travel expenses up to a maximum of 400€.
- The collaboration between Idensitat and La Capella Art Centre, as organisers, will provide accommodation for artists who do not live in Barcelona, a workplace to develop the project, and an exhibition space to present the results of the research.
*Due to limited budget for fees, travel and accommodation, we would suggest to collectives that only one member may attend the residency on-site.
DATES
- Deadline 29th November 2023
Residency in Barcelona must take place between January 15th and February 15th, 2024
MORE INFORMATION, TERMS AND APPLICATION FORM
https://www.idensitat.net/en/current-projects/care-ecologies/1774-nosymmetries-en