“Drop of Water Under a New Tongue” Residency Program

Drop of Water under a New Tongue is a 20-day intensive residency program supported by Municipality of Milan – Fabbrica del Vapore, Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus and developed in collaboration with BJCEM – Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

Fabbrica del Vapore is an important Milanese hub of creativity and innovation. The residency will be organized in this direction, giving the venue a strong connotation of a welcome place, an incubator of new ideas where an exchange among the artists of the residency, the curator and the place will permit to carry on research, new artistic practices, and peer to peer learning.

The second international residency of the aligned BJCEM – Fabbrica del Vapore Artist-in-Residency titled Drop of Water under a New Tongue focuses on the paradoxes of connective, exploring the pouring and controlling of the subjective as well as the objective in the era of digital shifts, and the potential of glitch, as an incentive to hear one another in the middle of the current turmoil of the daily life.

An Artist-in-Residency program offers fertile ground for these inquiries bringing together diverse practitioners, enhancing the complexities of their genealogies, living and working conditions, and creating spaces for research, exchange and solidarity, while encouraging productive dialogues with the new context.

Artists are invited to conceive a process-based project, collaborate with local communities and professionals to present their practices, or further develop their existing research.

The working group Drop of Water under a New Tongue will be composed of:

• Ivana Meštrov, curator of the residency;
• Up to 4 selected artists coming from Portugal, Italy and Cyprus selected through this international Open Call.

Objectives

• Opening up to various contexts, non-centralized forms of representation and plural identity perspectives through the creative languages of visual, multimedia, and performative arts;
• Fostering new paths to being, becoming and reimagining in the post-digital age;
• Offering the artists the chance to embrace other peers and the curator experience.

Benefits 

• Each selected artist will receive a participation fee of 300 Euro; a production fee of 350 Euro; and a total per diem of 300 Euro, covered by the partner of reference. The non-resident selected artists will be provided a round ticket from and to the city indicated in the application form, covered by the partner of reference, and the Municipality of Milan will guarantee them accommodation in the facilities of Fabbrica Del Vapore.

Eligibility Criteria

• The call is open to artists who work in visual arts, applied arts, new media, photography, and performance. To be eligible, candidates must be under 35 (born after 1988) and come from or be based in the following territories:
  • Portugal (two available positions)
  • Italy (one available position)
  • Cyprus (one available position)

For more information, visit BJCEM.