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This open call invites 8 emerging artists working with moving images to apply for the XI edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research, residency, and production project in Florence, Italy.
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Get matched →The XI edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images is a research, residency, and production project dedicated to artists who use moving images in their practice. The project, conceived and curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will be held in Florence as part of the XV edition of the festival, from November 15 to 20, 2022. Eight participants will be selected through an open call and in collaboration with some of the most important European academies, art schools, and artist residencies.
After 10 years, VISIO is further developed by introducing the VISIO Production Fund, a production fund worth 40,000 euro created in partnership with Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome), FRAC Bretagne (Rennes) and Seven Gravity Collection. The 8 selected artists will be invited to Florence and will have the opportunity to develop their own original project in dialogue with international curators and producers.
The sharing and exchange between participants and industry professionals are facilitated by an intensive program of mentoring sessions, round tables, and individual meetings. The funds will be awarded to 4 winning artists who will work with Leonardo Bigazzi and the Lo schermo dell’arte team to produce the works and premiere them at the Festival in 2023. An artist's edition of each of the produced works will become part of the permanent collection of the four partner institutions, which are committed to promoting and exhibiting them in subsequent years.
This year's Mentoring Sessions will involve, among others, Valentine Umansky, curator Tate Modern (London), and representatives of the project's partner institutions: Diego Bergamaschi, collector Seven Gravity Collection; Etienne Bernard, director FRAC Bretagne (Rennes); Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato); Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome).
In the Conversation Rooms, participants can discuss, through round tables and individual meetings, with artists, curators, critics, producers, and directors of international institutions hosted by the Festival, including artists Rosa Barba and Eric Baudelaire, Erika Balsom, Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, and Andrea Lissoni, artistic director Haus der Kunst (Munich).
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The opening of this new course will also be accompanied by the release of a publication dedicated to the first ten years of VISIO. The book traces the history of the project and promotes the research of the 128 artists who participated in the program and exhibitions organized between 2012 and 2021.