Open Call Artists in Residence 2019 AADK Spain
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AADK Spain is an artist-run platform that develops spaces for research and contemporary creation. With a focus set on experimental processes, its primary interest is to explore the notions of body, territory, and spatiality.
The platform advocates the decentralization of culture and the access to contemporary art in non-urban areas. It addresses local issues as means to understand global problems.
Currently based in Centro Negra (Blanca, Murcia) it holds several programs among which its Artistic Residencies stand out.
As a team, we believe that all artists we host are an active part of our platform. Therefore, we foster networks with other cultural and artistic enterprises, helping to promote their mobility at national and international circuits.
History of the project
AADK Spain is an extension of Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, a collective of three artists founded in Berlin in 2006. Back then, Abraham Hurtado (Spain), Jochen Arbeit (Germany) and Vania Rovisco (Portugal) gathered to develop artistic and curatorial projects with the purpose of weaving networks and delineating new cultural circuits.
For six years, they organized events and actions in different parts of Berlin, activating new venues and reflecting upon the borders of established art practices.
In 2012 Abraham Hurtado returned to Spain and with the collaboration of the artist Juan Conesa launched Centro Negra, he conceived this building as a space for research and creation. In its early years, a series of site-specific interventions, temporary residences, concerts, workshops are developed. All guest artists work based on context and community.
In 2015 Elena Azzedín joined the platform to collaborate in the conceptualisation and implementation of the current Artistic Residencies. Besides her role as curator, she developed complementary programs and contents such as conferences, workshops, exhibitions, festivals, and even a pilot for a radio show.
Last, in 2017 Selu Herraiz joins the project with Sonora, School of experimentation. promoting a musical pedagogy based on creation, promoting new forms of learning and contemporary thought through sound experimentation.
Since 2012, AADK Spain has welcomed more than 300 artists from all continents and has gained recognition among numerous national and international institutions.
Description
AADK Spain invites all artists and researchers who wish to work on the topics of body, territory and spatiality to participate in its Artistic Residency Program. For this call, projects that respond to the axis of Territory will be prioritized.
The Program is carried out in Centro Negra, current headquarters of AADK Spain, located in the town of Blanca, Murcia. It is conceived of as a space for reflection and creative research that encourages its participants to interweave their projects with the historical, cultural and geographical context of the region.
About us:
AADK Spain is an international artistic platform that opens up spaces for research and contemporary creation. With a focus set on experimental and creative processes, its primary interest is to explore the notions of body, territory, and spatiality through
an interdisciplinary approach. In this open call we will prioritise proposals focused on Territory.
The platform advocates for the decentralization of culture and the access to contemporary art in non-urban areas. It addresses local issues as a mean to understand global problems.
Currently based in Centro Negra (Blanca, Murcia) AADK Spain holds several
programs among which its Artistic Residencies Program stands out. Deeply rooted
in its context, said program constitutes a framework for research and debate where knowledge exchange and creative collaboration are always encouraged. Besides the aforementioned, the platform also holds a wide number of activities, workshops and events that enrich the stay of the artists in residence.
Furthermore, AADK Spain waves networks with other cultural and artistic enterprises in order to facilitate mobility for the artists that it hosts and foster their work at national and international circuits.
Our philosophy:
-AADK Spain is an independent project run by artists that works through horizontal dynamics.
-It advocates for the decentralization of culture and the access to contemporary art in non-urban areas.
-It sets up a space for transdisciplinary research, with focus on knowledge exchange and creative collaboration.
-It boosts the value of creative processes over the need for nished art pieces.
-It researches new artistic practices with the aim of expanding the borders of creative disciplines and exploring transversal pedagogies.
-It is an organic and absorptive platform, that can be transformed and resigni ed through all its participants.
-It promotes the work of the artists who have taken part in the project, understanding them as an active part of itself.
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