JUNE
16th – 18th
-Arrivals & Intro to Cittadellarte
-Information (Surviving kit) – General info about Cittadellarte, Biella and activities during the time spent here in Italy
-Meeting with Paolo Naldini (Cittadellarte Managing Director)
20th – 23rd
Meeting with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Artistic director and founder of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
Residents presentations from Cai Weidong, Raphael Franco, Olga Karyakina, Özgür Demirci, Karolina Rychlik, Mathew Mazzotta, Ibrahim Jawabreh, Eduardo Cachucho, Ekaterina Kravtsova
Presentation of ReMida, a cultural project whose purpose is to give new life, through creative reuse, to materials that would otherwise be thrown away, apparently without value.
Presentation of Cittadellarte offices, Communication office and Production office
Presentation of Arte al Centro exhibition and the FRAC (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art) Collection where there is the possibility for the residents to exhibit.
27th – 30th
Meeting with La Pigna/San Remo community. The residents will participate in a “mini residency” there in August.
Meeting with the Love Difference office. Love Difference is “an association that runs a network of cooperation driven by art to promote a civilization that exalts differences and that encourages the cohabitation between different cultures in the Mediterranean countries”, whose headquarters are here at Cittadellarte.
Meeting with Luigi Coppola, who alongside Michelangelo Pistoletto is the joint artistic director for Evento the second biennale of Urban art from Bordeaux.
Residents presentations from Ibada Wadud, Angel Masip and Elmas Deniz
Visit to Zegna Wool mill and Fondazione Zegna, Trivero
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JULY
4th-8th
3 day workshop with Emilia Telese -artist, writer and professional practices expert.
Meeting with Francesco Manacorda director of Artissima, the contemporary art fair in Turin and one of the curators for FRAC (the Piedmont Regional Fund for Contemporary Art)
11th – 17th
3 day Workshop with artist/film maker Sally Gutierrez and cultural theorist Jose Bueso, programme includes presentation of work by the artists, theories of the current globbal economic crisis, debate and video exercises
18th -24th July
Love Difference workshop
Visit to Castelo di Rivoli
25th – 31st
Meeting with La Pigna/San Remo community
Visit to the Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin
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AUGUST
6th – 15th
Holidays!
16th – 22nd
UNIDEE residence moves to La Pigna, San Remo
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SEPTEMBER
The month of september has been kept deliberately clear to allow residents to concentrate on their projects for the final stretch of the residence.
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OCTOBER
1st
UNIDEE IN PROGRESS - an open studio day at Cittadellarte that serves as a moment for the UNIDEE 2011 residents to display their work made during the last 4 months.
