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Open Call #3 Results 2024
This open call is for one artist, who will be sent internationally to two separate residencies of two weeks each. These residencies may also include locations outside of the seven core partner countries which may only be to one location.
This call is open to a wider field of artists beyond just the performing arts, such as writers, photographers, etc. or anyone who believes they can engage with the aforementioned theme of the project to produce new research or work.
We’re pleased to announce the artists selected from each country.
Misandra Fondacci
Misandra is an actress and writer living and working in Corsica. She is very interested in languages and how they’re linked to their territory, and mainly works with a theatre company doing theatre in Corsican language.
Instagram: @misa.fondacci
Sonja Lebos
Sonja Leboš is a cultural anthropologist and practitioner from Zagreb, Croatia, engaged in visual & urban anthropology and multimedia performance
Facebook: sonja.lebos
Christina Jonsson
Christina is an artist currently researching manifestations of the ecological disaster and its possible relations to patriarchy and capitalism, and with an interest in layering and accumulation. “I work within various media including drawing, painting and performance, but also teaching, hosting and curating.”
Instagram: @jonsson.chris
Facebook: christina.joensson.9
jonssonchristina.wordpress.com
Cecilia Molano
My work is developed between writing and image in a wide sense (drawing and filming) and It moves between different disciplines in an attempt to understand creation as an intellectual complex activity. (Let me know if that is enough or if you need an artist’ statement which I have already written in a more. Cecilia Molano works on performance (scenographer, creator or costume and video designer). Her pieces deal with the relation between narration and image. She has made filmic and performative pieces that also deal with her ongoing research. She also works as a graphic designer. She finished her PhD thesis at the Faculty of FineArts (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), with a distinction “cum laude” while she developed her research at the a·pass program in Brussels. She also holds a Master in Scenography at Saint Martins School of Arts, and Scenography degree, RESAD, Madrid carefully an detailed way)
Cecilia’s work is developed between writing and image in a wide sense (drawing and filming) and It moves between different disciplines in an attempt to understand creation as an intellectual complex activity.
Her pieces deal with the relation between narration and image. She has made filmic and performative pieces that also deal with her ongoing research.
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo is an Estonian visual artist and a photographer based in Tallinn.
Instagram: @roman_sten
Maria Luisa Usai
Performer, author and director of multidisciplinary plays and audiovisual projects
Instagram: @marilu_usai
Facebook: maria.l.usai.7
Irene Alonso
Irene Alonso is an art student based in Tenerife who wants to discover herself, others, life, through all kinds of artistic practices, especially illustration, prose, and photography.
Instagram: @iirene_alonso
Open Call #2 Results 2024
This call was for 1 performing arts creator from each of our regions to attend a joint co-creation residency on the island of Bornholm June 17th-23rd 2024. The residency will be hosted by BIRCA and facilitated by BIRCA’s director Susanne Danig in collaboration with Danish-based performance maker Ilon Lodewijks.
We’re pleased to announce the artists selected from each country.
Charlotte De Casanova
Charlotte de Casanova is an actress, director and author, she directs the art collective “A Funicella” in Corsica
Instagram: @charlotte_de_casanova
Kristina Pongrac
Kristina is a transdisciplinary artist from the Amazon of Europe, working on site-specific social and environmental topics with an interactive sensory approach.
#kristinapong #kipongart #kristinapongart
Ilon Lodewijks
(NL/ DK) Performancemaker who works site-specific and/or with formats that eliminates the distance between the audience and the stage. you can tag me as ilonlodewijks. Ilon Lodewijks is a Dutch performancemaker based in Denmark. She works at the intersection of performance arts & social engagement. The foundation of her artistic practice is encounters between people; she stages these encounters both in the creation process and in the eventual work. Ilon sees her practice as a vehicle to ask questions about what matters in our time. What does it mean to be alive today? She works site-specific and in public space and/or with formats that eliminates the distance between the audience and the stage.
Emma Lohan
My name is Emma Lohan and I am a songwriter, collaborator, musician and performer experimenting with and inspired by the world around me.
Instagram: @emmalohanmusic
Albert Herranz
I work basically from Mallorca. I am a writer, screenwriter, and translator. I have worked as a scriptwriter for comics, documentaries, and films. I have published several books of poetry, novels, and essays. In recent years I have been working around the island as a measure of reality. For more information you can visit me on social networks or on my website. #gatamoix #islandfromthesea #albertherranzhammer
Marta Pala
I am a performing artist with a visual education background and I work as atelierista in art education projects with children and teenagers.
Instagram: @spazio_per_aria
Héctor Gardez
Filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary researcher. In his searches are the reltionship between the body nd territory and the island identity from the Canarian experience with a decolonial and queer perspective.
Instagram: @hector: gardez
Open Call #1 Results 2024
This call was open to artists or groups/companies of up to 3 artists. Each artist/group will receive 2 weeks of residency in their country of origin or domicile. They will then be sent to a partner country for a further 2 weeks of residency.
We’re pleased to announce the artists selected from each country.
Sara Reyes
Sara Reyes is a researcher in philosophy and a movement artist/dancer. She is interested in practising a dance-oriented philosophy, by articulating and intertwining those two and nourishing her dance practice as a source of reflection and creative possibilities.
Instagram: @arasrar
Nanna Koppel & Marco Colocci
Nanna Koppel, an interdisciplinary actor and performer from Denmark, is also a co-founder of the activistic performance project HI DAD.
Marco Colocci, alias Queimada, is an Italian sound artist based in Berlin whose work sonically focuses on melted-down samples and field recordings.
Instagram: @queimada.music @ppelnannakoppel
Joan Miquel Artigues
A creator and performer, with Mareperla he combines his interest in the sociology of art and his experience as a performing artist. B. Creator and performer, graduate in sociology with experience in creating space, sound, light, and video designs. Joan Miquel Artigues was born in Mallorca in 1981. He is an actor and creator, graduated in sociology, and trained as an actor in Barcelona. He has extensively worked in audiovisual fiction as well as in physical and text theater. Simultaneously, he has carried out stage designs for various productions, including space, sound, and video, along with numerous assistant director roles and some directorial positions. As a creator of his own projects, notable pieces include Remor, Amarats, and the Jonàs Project.
Instagram: @joanmiquelartigues
Facebook: joanmiquelartigues
Lauriane Goyet,Delphine Ciavaldini, & Simone Grenier
Lauriane Goyet is a french director, author and actor. She lives and works in Corsica.
instagram: @acrobaticamachina
Facebook : Acrobatica Machina facebook
https://www.acrobatica-machina.com
Delphine Ciavaldini is a french set and costume designer who works in Corsica.
Instagram: @delphineciavaldini
Simone Grenier is a British-Corsican actor. She lives and works in Corsica.
Instagram: @simonegrenier_
Nikolinanina akrobat
Nikolina Komljenović is a performer, contemporary dancer, choreographer, aerialist, pedagogue and producer of the Experimental Free Scene Association (ekscena).
Instagram: @nikolinanina_akrobatnikolinanina_akrobat
Julie O’Connell Kent
Julie is an aerial artist who finds grounded movement up in the air, who performs and teaches both in Ireland and internationally.
Instagram: @abs0lutelygorgeous
Enrico Malatesta
Enrico Malatesta is an Italian percussionist and sound researcher active in the fields of experimental music, sound intervention, and performance; his practice explores the relations between sound, space, and body, and the vitality of materials and the morphology of surfaces, with particular attention to percussive acts and modes of listening. Since 2007, Enrico Malatesta has presented his works on tours across Europe, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, the UK, USA and Russia, participating in festivals and special events in venues such as Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Berghain in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Blank Forms in New York.
Instagram: @_enricomalatesta_
Open Call #3 for 2024 Released
Open Call #3 – Islander Focus Residency 2024
This open call is for one artist, who will be sent internationally to two separate residencies of two weeks each. These residencies may also include locations outside of the seven core partner countries which may only be to one location.
This call is open to a wider field of artists beyond just the performing arts, such as writers, photographers, etc. or anyone who believes they can engage with the aforementioned theme of the project to produce new research or work.
The artist will receive a fee of €600 per 2-week residency (€1200 total) and per diems of €50* (€1400 total). Accommodation and travel is provided.
The standard application requirements are listed below.
It is normally expected that all artists attend the Springlab, however due to the short notice of open call #3 in this first year of the project, we may make an exception if an artist cannot attend. Please specify in your application if you can or cannot attend.
Open Calls for 2024 Released
We’re happy to announce the first two Open Calls for 2024 residencies.
Open Call #1 – Artistic Residency Exchange 2024
This call is open to artists or groups/companies of up to 3 artists. Each artist/group will receive 2 weeks of residency in their country of origin or domicile. They will then be sent to a partner country for a further 2 weeks of residency. During these weeks of residency, they may share the space with another group of artists, to encourage networking and exchange.
This call is open to artists who have a performative element to their work or consider themselves to be in the performing arts.
Artists/companies will receive a total of €1200 per 2-week residency (€2400 total) regardless of group size, and per diems of €50* per person. Accommodation and travel is provided.
APPLICATION PROCESS UNIQUE TO THIS CALL:
– a written (250 words max.) or video (2 mins max) explanation of why you want to go to this particular residency centre/country
Open Call #2 – Co-Creation Residency 2024
This call is for 1 performing arts creator from each of our regions (except Denmark) to attend a joint co-creation residency on the island of Bornholm June 17th-23rd 2024. The residency will be hosted by BIRCA and facilitated by BIRCA’s director Susanne Danig in collaboration with Danish-based performance maker Ilon Lodewijks.
The focus of the call is artists in the performing arts field who want to work with the theme of island identity/insularity and want to develop ideas in a co-creative residency. We are interested in artists who have experience in working collaboratively and an interest in the aforementioned theme. You will be working closely with the other selected artists in a site-specific way and in dialogue with the surroundings (local population/environment) of Bornholm to investigate and develop ideas for future projects on these themes.
This call is open to a wider field of people working in the arts, and is not just for performers.
Each artist will be paid €800, per diems of €50 per day during the residency, and travel will be covered. BIRCA will provide accommodation and working space. See BIRCA website for more context: https://www.birca.org/en/.
SELECTION PROCESS UNIQUE TO THIS CALL:
– We select artists based on experience and ideas, but also to ensure we put together a diverse group of creators.
Island Connect II – 2023 to 2026
We are delighted to announce that the Island Connect project is back for another three years. More details to follow soon.
