Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
Between May and October annually, minimum two week duration. Self-catered.
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. There is no expectation of a finished outcome. 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.
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 has been home to artist and curator Tracy Mackenna’s Italian family for centuries and strong links are fostered between the residency programmes and the local community. 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
€500 per week per person.
The residency fee is heavily subsidised and additionally, residents receive support and informal mentoring during the residency period.
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Group Residency Programmes, Italy and Orkney Islands
Duration: one week intensive, fully catered.
Group Residency Programme Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS
Sat 30 Aug – Sat 06 Sept 2025
Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
Sat 06 – Sat 13 September 2025
Group Residency Programme, Italy: Place, People and Time: PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Tues 23 Sept – Tues 30 Sept 2025
Group Residency Programme, Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO
Thurs 02 Oct – Thurs 09 Oct 2025
The Group Residencies offer up to approx. nine participants a supportive, discursive environment for practice and research, exchange and co-learning. Each Group Residency is devised by (Prof) Tracy Mackenna (she/her), Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal, often in partnership with an organisation or person of international repute, and is individually designed to stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation.
Group Residencies are based around particular themes. They offer participants a supportive, discursive environment for practice and research, exchange and co-learning through immersive on-site research, individual work and multidisciplinary group collaboration. Residents become part of a multi-skilled, international peer-group. Through practice-based thinking and doing the Group Residency programmes help residents develop tools, methods and strategies to enrich their work and (re)consider how best to make it public. They are a focussed support structure that fosters multidisciplinary work and provides focused critical feedback.
N.B. Proposals are welcomed from groups and organisations that would like The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Curator to devise a tailored residency programme, to focus on specific areas of practice and research.
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