Group Residency Programme Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO

Group Residency Programme Italy: People, Place and Time: MICRO-MACRO

Thurs 02 Oct – Thurs 09 Oct 2025
Application Deadline: APPLY NOW / 1 PLACE AVAILABLE

The Group Residency is devised around the relationships of ‘place, people and time’ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise.

MICRO-MACRO will be lead by Tracy Mackenna (she/her), Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal working in partnership with Amanda Crabtree (she/her), Director and Lead Curator of artconnexion, France. Tracy and Amanda have in common expertise that includes internationally presented and tested approaches to the relationships between art, place, society and audiences and they work across gallery, museum, site-specific, participatory and socially engaged practices, mediation-production and commissioning. Additional subject-specific sessions will be delivered by a range of multidisciplinary experts.

MICRO-MACRO is offered for practitioners and researchers working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of site and place. The group will comprise of approx. nine participants.

FOCAL POINTS

• Creative practices
• Interdisciplinarity
• Technologies
• Co-learning
• Individual practice
• Experimentation
• Semi-structured programme
• Expert facilitator/s and guest contributors
• Collective platform for encounters
• Supportive, caring, non-hierarchical environment
• Fully catered
• Immersive experience
• Relationships to land, connections through place
• Location specific
• Site (responsiveness)
• Cultural and environmental ecologies
• Memory (ecological, material, ruin)
• Imagining futures 
• Publics; participants and audiences

AIM
The residency experience will stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation. MICRO-MACRO establishes global perspectives, understandings, protocols and (digital)methods for intercultural collaboration and enables residency participants to approach Collemacchia’s community and environment with care.

FEE

The Residency Programme is operated on a non-commercial cost-covering basis, and is financially supported by The Museum of Loss and Renewal in order to keep fees low. The residency fee is €1750 (Euro) paid by the resident. It includes the residency programme, accommodation, full board, collection/return to nearest train/bus station, accommodation in a variety of spacious rooms, excellent studio spaces and catering (3 meals each day).

Testimonials:

“The MICRO-MACRO (Italy) Group Residency has had such a positive impact on my practice and research. 

Learning from Tracy and Amanda through open conversation, presentations and practical activities was a wonderful experience. I am very grateful for their support and for my time in Collemacchia.

Alongside the residency programme I was able to connect to the area, which is very important to me personally and for my practice.”

-Carla Smith, Scotland, 2024

"The MICRO-MACRO (Italy) Group Residency provided me with a great sense of inspiration and space to reflect on my practice, both past and regarding possible futures.

The beautifully-designed and maintained living and working spaces, structured by home-cooked meals prepared with love and attention, cast a special light on residents’ everyday life: they give space to breathe.”

-Fred Landau-Donnelly, Germany, 2024

See website for more testimonials of former residents.

More information about the Group Residency Italy: MICRO-MACRO:

https://tracy.mackenna.studio/the-museum-of-loss-and-renewal-residencies/group-residency-programme-italy/place-people-and-time-micro-macro/