VISIO. European Programme on Artistsâ Moving Images
5th edition
Florence, November 15-20, 2016
VISIO consists of an exhibition and a series of seminars and meetings dedicated to expanding the vision and themes of artists, who use moving images in their artistic practice. By promoting encounters and international mobility, VISIO has favoured the development of a wide network of institutions, artists and professionals working with moving images.
The VISIO Programme, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will be held in Florence, within the context of the 9th Edition of Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival (16th - 20th November 2015). The participants will be 12 young European artists, who work with moving images; they will be selected with an open call, in collaboration with some of the most important European Art Academies, Schools and Artist Residencies. Thanks to the generous contribution of our partners, this year there will be no participation fee.
The deadline to apply is October 3rd 2016.
After the success of the exhibition held at Palazzo Strozzi in 2015, this year one video work for each of the 12 participating artists will be selected for a new exhibition project: VISIO. Outside The Black Box (16th Nov â 20th Nov, 2016). The exhibition will take place at the Cinema Teatro La Compagnia in Florence. The building, converted in 1987 into a theatre by Adolfo Natalini, founder of the famous radical architecture firm Superstudio in the late 1960s, will soon re-open as a cinema dedicated to documentary and art-house films. Questioning traditional film formats, the selected works will be displayed in the hidden spaces of the former theatre that usually are not accessible to the public. The exhibition is produced and organized by Lo schermo dellâarte Film Festival in collaboration with FST-Mediateca Regionale Toscana.
Also confirmed for the second edition is the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize that will be assigned to one of the participating artists and consists in the acquisition of one of his/her video works by the Seven Gravity Collection, private Italian collection that focuses on video works by contemporary artists. Through this Prize Lo schermo dellâarte Film Festival, thanks to the partnership with the Seven Gravity Collection, aims to support young artists by promoting the practice of collecting moving images works and video installations.
As a result of the research and debate generated by the Programme over the past five years, an extensive publication will be published in the spring of 2017 by Mousse Publishing. The book will feature contributions by leading international curators, artists and critics and a section dedicated to all the artists that have participated in the programme.
VISIO - European Programme on Artistsâ Moving Images is promoted and organized by Lo Schermo dellâArte Film Festival with the generous support of Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze, and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze/Osservatorio per le Arti Contemporanee.
The project is organized in collaboration with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi e FST-Mediateca Regionale Toscana and is also supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy, the Deutsches Institut Florenz, the Institut français Firenze, the Seven Gravity Collection and Cecchi.
The selection of the participants is conducted in partnership with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan), the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Kingston University (London), De Ateliers (Amsterdam), the Pavillon Neuflize OBC research lab of the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), LE FRESNOY Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing), the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam), the Royal College of Art (London), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen), Viafarini (Milan), the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Universität der Kßnste Berlin, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre (Bruxelles), the Zurich University of The Arts.
Applications must be sent to Carolina Gestri at [email protected] by October 3rd, 2016.
http://www.schermodellarte.org/en/visio-2016/Â to download the application