ESSERI URBANI 2022

Theme:

Country:

City:

Eligibility:

ESSERI URBANI develops along with the territory and for the territory. Likewise, it is also a challenge. The Apulian territory, which has peculiar features and anchors its identity to an invaluable tangible and intangible heritage, requires a proper strategy of protection and development, whose aim is to avoid speculative dynamics and to place it at the centre of a long-term project to enhance and promote its resources.

ESSERI URBANI chooses art as an instrument to read and interpret the current events and the modern world. Art can build bridges and new synergies, it can connect places, ideas, and people. Through art, ESSERI URBANI intends to be present on the territory, to support its development and innovation, and to redeem it both from a state of neglect and commodification, while triggering a process of urban and social regeneration both in places and practices.

Mandatory requirements of this projects are the strengthening of the local circuits and their integration in the touristic and accommodation offering, the promotion of the artistic culture through the planning of activities and events, the building of a stable and long-lasting network among the different subjects on the territory (with a special focus on access to culture, social inclusivity, and youth employment). This can be perceived also as a challenge: the main aim is to change the environmental and cultural heritage into an engine of sustainable self-growth.

The project finds its full expression during the Summertime through the Festival: born in 2019, ESSERI URBANI is the first Contemporary Art and Design Festival in Southern Italy to be fully inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities.

First of all, ESSERI URBANI is a chance to carry out an intense experimental research in the artistic field, by which communities, landscapes and local architectures meet the contemporary artistic languages. ESSERI URBANI challenges the curatorship practice and the artistic experience, suggesting a tangible intervention in the public space of our cities in order to read, interpret and rewrite its shape, identities and purposes. When placed in the multiform and dynamic city pattern, the artwork transforms the urban space in a place of encounter instead of mere passage. From this direct comparison, an open-air exhibition itinerary comes to life thanks to the artwork’s ability to communicate with spaces and architectures. Art insinuates itself in the urban pattern and outlines new maps and paths, and it makes us rediscover the space of everyday life and its potential. Outside galleries and museums, the artwork transforms itself: it can’t count on a container which defines and ensures its artistical status anymore, and it should adapt to a new environment, change its language, and evolve into a new form as if it were a living being. This new form is ESSERI URBANI.

The festival has been introduced during the Conferenza internazionale dei Borghi più belli del Mediterraneo and BIT Milano 2020, among the most important cultural activities by the Municipality of Locorotondo (where the first edition of the festival took place in 2019). The festival has been highlighted by Regione Puglia, as part of “TOURISM4ALL - Sviluppo di una rete transfrontaliera per la promozione di destinazioni turistiche accessibili”, financed by CBC Interreg VA Italia-Croazia 2014-2020. The 2019 edition has beenawarded “Menzione speciale Under 35” as part of Premio Cultura+Impresa 2019-2020 promoted by Federculture and The Round Table - in partnership with Fondazione Italiana Accenture e ALES -   in “Sponsorizzazione e Partnership culturale”. ESSERI URBANI is among the twenty winners of the New European Bauhaus Prizes, in the category “Mobilisation of culture, arts and communities”, and it is the only Italian project in the category “Award”.

Prize Summary: 
€ 2.000
Prizes Details: 

A grant of € 2.000,00 will be given to each of the selected applicants as reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of material, transport, assembly and dismantling of the works, and its maintenance during the installation period, as well as towards any board and lodging expenses that are to be fully borne by the applicant. Should the latter wish to delegate the above- mentioned operations to third parties, costs will be deducted from the participation contribution. For this purpose, the contractors should keep and submit a copy of each payment receipt, travel ticket, etc. Otherwise, the contribution – as a whole or as the part not related to any reimbursement of expenses – will be granted, before tax, by showing the formal invoice or the receipt for professional payment.

The contribution will be granted through two instalments: the first one (25%) at the beginning of the artistic residency, and the last one (75%) at the end of the event.

In this regard the Project referent shall read and sign a contract (Appendix E) and shall stick to what has been agreed.

Deadline: 
28/February/2022

Entry Fee:

Fee Detail: 
€ 15
Contact & Links: 
Call for Submissions

Kevin Harris

MonoVariations

26/October/2023

Call for Entries

Center for the Visual Arts

Wausau WI

Art by the Foot

09/October/2023

Call for Artists

Art and Color 365 Magazine

Colorado Springs/Online

Art and Color 365 Magazine Oils Art Competition

05/November/2023

Call for Artists

Zita

Online

Beyond Limitations

20/October/2023

Residency

Kunstraum LLC

Brooklyn NY

Kunstraum LLC Artist Residency

15/October/2023

Call for Artists

Fusion Art / Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

Santa Fe/Online

13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition

27/October/2023

Call for Submissions

Parallel Studios Inc / CURRENTS New Media

Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

Call for Submissions: CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival

15/November/2023

Workshop

Kolaj Institute

Online

Call to Artists: Collage Publishing Workshop

15/October/2023

Call for Entries

Agora Gallery

New York

The 5th Chelsea International Photography Competition

24/October/2023

Call for Artists

Art Center Sarasota

Sarasota

Still Life

29/October/2023

Call for Artists

MUSE by PPDS

Milano

MUSE Digital Art Award – Connecting visionary artistic minds with the latest sustainable technology

20/October/2023

Call for Entries

Wild Heart Gallery

Online

Cute! Animal Art and Wildlife Art Call

20/October/2023

Call for Submissions

Debra Yen

#International

2024 International Artist Grand Prize Competition

31/October/2023

Call for Artists

Markaj Güncel Sanat İnisiyatifi

ANKARA

international "Letters from the 100th Year" mail art

25/October/2023

Call for Artists

Primo Piano Special Projects

Santa Caterina (Lecce)

The myth of Arachne and the roots of Tarantism in Puglia

31/October/2023

Call for Artists

TAEX

Call for Artists: Natively Digital

16/October/2023

Call for Artists

Gallery Mcube

Lalitpur

AIR_MCUBE International Artists Residency 2024

30/November/2023

Call for Artists

The Woodlands Arts Council

The Woodlands

The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival - 2024

16/October/2023

Residency

CAN SERRAT

El Bruc / Barcelona

Ongoing Residency Open Call for 2023

01/December/2023