visio-european programme
Lo Schermo dell’Arte presents the eleventh edition of VISIO-European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research, residency and production programme dedicated to artists who use moving images in their artistic practice.
The project, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will be held in Florence in conjunction with the 15th Lo Schermo dell’Arte – Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival (November 15 – 20, 2022). The 8 participants will be young European artists who work with moving images; they will be selected through an open call organised in collaboration with some of Europe’s leading art academies, schools and artist residencies. The deadline to apply is Friday, September 9, 2022.
After 10 years VISIO develops further by introducing the VISIO Production Fund, a €40,000 production fund conceived in partnership with Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato), Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome), FRAC Bretagne (Rennes) and Seven Gravity Collection.
Eight artists will be selected and invited to Florence and will have the opportunity to develop their own original project in dialogue with international curators and producers. Sharing and exchange between participants and professionals are facilitated by an intensive programme of mentoring sessions, round tables and individual meetings. Funds will eventually be awarded to four winning artists who will work with Leonardo Bigazzi, and the Schermo dell’Arte team, to produce the works and premiere them at the Festival in 2023. An artist’s edition of each of the works produced will become part of the permanent collection of the project’s partner institutions, which are committed to promote and exhibit them in the following years.
The beginning of this new course will also be accompanied by the release of a publication dedicated to the first ten years of VISIO. The book traces the history of the project and promotes the research of the 128 artists who took part in the programme and the exhibitions organised between 2012 and 2021. The book aims to investigate some of the fundamental themes animating the international debate in the field of moving images today through texts commissioned for the occasion and conversations with artists, curators, researchers, collectors and producers involved in the project over the years.
STRUCTURE VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images has a four-part structure:
Mentoring Sessions Critical sessions and one-to-one meetings will be organised with the aim of developing the projects presented by the participating artists. The invited curators will have the opportunity to study the proposals in depth before the start of the programme and then discuss the various aspects of the productions with the artists. The mentors for this edition are: Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator, MoMA (New York) and Valentine Umansky, curator Tate Modern (London). In these sessions the artists will also meet representatives of the project partner institutions with which the winning films will be co-produced: Diego Bergamaschi, Seven Gravity Collection; Etienne Bernard, director FRAC Bretagne (Rennes); Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato); Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome).
Conversation Room In this space participants will be able to discuss, during round tables and individual 40-minute meetings, with artists, curators, critics, producers and directors of international institutions hosted by the Festival. Whether used as an opportunity to present portfolios or simply have a conversation, these are meant to be moments of dialogue that will foster the participants’ professional growth and extend their network of international contacts. Confirmed guests include artists Rosa Barba and Eric Baudelaire, Erika Balsom, Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London and Andrea Lissoni, artistic director at Haus der Kunst (Munich).
Festival The participating artists are invited to attend the screenings, meetings and lectures included in the programme of the 15th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte – Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival. This year’s edition will feature works by: Rosa Barba, Eric Baudelaire, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Andres Serrano among many others.
4.Online Platform in collaboration with MYmovies A work by each of the VISIO participants will be presented online, from 16 to 27 November 2022, on the Festival online platform. In the 2021 edition, the platform achieved almost 12,000 views.