UNIDEE IN PROGRESS 08 - open studio

Unidee in Progress 08
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga 27
13900 Biella - Italy
Phone: +39 015 28400
Fax: +39 02 00617056
Contact: Francesca Fossati
ufficiostampa@cittadellarte.it
unidee2008.wordpress.com

opening one day event:
SUNDAY 5th OCTOBER 2008, from 5.00 pm
free entrance

Presentation of the projects for a Responsible Transformation of Society developed by the residents of UNIDEE 2008.

UNIDEE in Residence, 'creativity campus' of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, offers the opportunity to become activators of projects for a Responsible Transformation of Society to artists, curators and managers of socio-cultural projects. Four months at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto: workshops, lectures, discussions and collaborative projects.

The projects Unidee in Residence 2008 will be on exhibition in Cittadellarte until December 31, 2008

IN RESIDENCE: (Current City / Nation)

Yael Bar-On (Jerusalem / Israel)
Biljana Ciric (Shanghai / Serbia)
Yolanda De los Bueis (London / Spain)
Manuela Macco (Biella / Italy)
Ahmad Malki (Ramallah / Palestine)
Elisa Marchesini (Amsterdam / Netherlands-Italy)
Pavlina Mladenova (Varna / Bulgaria)
Josefina Posch (Gothenburg / Sweden)
Christoph Schwarz (Vienna / Austria)
Marko Stamenkovic (Belgrade / Serbia)
Sakiko Sugawa (Kyoto / Japan)
Nidhi Sundram (Mumbai / India)
Daniel Alejandro Urrea Peña (Medellín / Colombia)
Yulia Usova (Kiev / Ukraine)
Sarah Vanhee (Amsterdam / Belgium)
Flávia Vieira (Porto / Portugal)

Cittadellarte aims to inspire people towards responsible change in society through ideas and creative projects.

Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto was founded in 1998 as the physical embodiment of the Progetto Arte Manifesto (1994) with which the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto proposed a new role for the artist: the role of creating an interaction between all the diverse spheres of human activity that form the society.

Cittadellarte is a huge laboratory where creativity acts as the crossing point between the diverse cultural, economical and productive sectors. It is a massive generator of energy, and a place for rethinking things, for sharing views, for studying and for doing research.

The name "Cittadellarte" incorporates two meanings - that of a citadel, namely a protected and defended area where artistic projects can be nurtured and developed, and that of a city, which suggests openness and complex interrelations with the world.

The activities of Cittadellarte are based on a vision of "creative involvement", where art interacts directly with all dimensions of the social system - from economics to politics, from science to production, from education to behaviour - in order to achieve a responsible transformation in human civilisation.