Tuesday 8 June 2010

CARGOcasa concept

contacts
cargotopiageral@gmail.com

The CARGOcasa artists’ residence projected for the year 2010 in Oporto city, will be reserved for artists, pedagogs, festival programers, sea-far people, art historians, philosophers, film-makers and writers who have a precise project that is in harmony with the vision of the CARGOTOPIA project but independent from the CARGOTOPIA festival.
This is the 1st of a cycle of residences planned from the year 2010 until 2012.

The elaboration of the CARGOTOPIA festival program will be one of the main criterion for invitation of the residents selected by CARGOcasa and CONTAGIARTE home artistic's directors Paulina Almeida, Ana Moraes and Ana Saltão, together with a working group , with the presence of several artists.



Concept


In an entirely new and original way, these residences situated on CONTAGIARTE house – in a unique environment propitious to creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration – are defined as “CARGOcasa project residences”, which means that they no longer involve just one artist but rather a veritable project that can regroup several.

 A working group will be set up to undertake a multidisciplinary creative project. From the history of the Oporto city site and the CONTAGIARTE house, it is evident that the entire building constitutes a privileged location for research and reflection. As a prolongation of the CARGOTOPIA festival, the residences will be committed to developing in a privileged but not exclusive manner projects that question and involve the notion of social, ecology, nautical, cargo, fair trade art defined as a subject of perpetual surprise. The residence in the CONTAGIARTE house, the quality of the available spaces, and the force of the surrounding urban scape offer exceptional conditions for residence.

 The structure is perfectly conceived for a period of socialization, where we aim to simulate life on board of a boat. The artists will have at their disposal lodgings and presentation rooms open to public. With 10 days of residence with persons of their choice to work on a previously untouched project (an exhibit, book, forum, work of art). This process allows projects developing that are born by crossing different disciplines, creating a dynamic and heterogeneity within the very residences. This concept of residences revolves around the idea of gathering a group of artists who would otherwise not have the opportunity to work together on a common project.
The program of these residences is decidedly orientated towards what is current in national and international artistic creation. Each project will be composed around two or three resident artists for a period of 10 days. Two or three artists will be present steadily on the CONTAGIARTE house, but this group may also include others whose intervention will be fundamental for the project. The residence will thus function in accordance with a principle of rotation of the participants in a common project.



Modes of selection
The choice of the project is made by the artistic directors together with the working group. 
The selection of the residents will be made according to criteria of quality, involvement and professionalism.
-Emerging artists , whom residence can help to develop professionally;
-Artists with an established national or international reputation for whom a change of location can offer a new outlook.
Each project will have the benefit of a basic living suport as well as a production allowance. The artists will be received during 10 days and be able to present the result of their art work at the CARGOTOPIA festival.

The different objectives of the artists’ residence 


For a cultural establishment like CARGOTOPIA festival and CONTAGIARTE house, starting a residence project has two objectives: at the same time the concern to valorize a natural and cultural heritage, and to favor and support contemporary artistic creation. 

These CARGOcasa residences on CONTAGIARTE house aim above all to be a place for carrying out and producing original projects, a place for research and reflection. The CARGOcasa is not concerned with setting a policy of acquiring works which will be created during the artists’ stay, but aims rather to become an important platform for artistic production within a multidisciplinary perspective, a living space for meetings and research – a “center of Utopias”.
 
The conductor thread of this cultural and artistic development project of the CARGOTOPIA platform is the absolute conviction that by concentrating on one sole project, that project is killed. If on the other hand it is integrated into a larger project with new and different dimensions, then it will enjoy a full life. 

CONTAGIARTE house is known as a place for contemporary and alternative art. This double image must be safeguarded within a coherent and legitimate positioning, and with choices selected with vigorous criteria. But this should be done not by overbidding the attractive capacity that house has, with its traditional portuguese- architectural heritage, but rather by endeavoring to continue and to progress with what is new.

CARGOcasatime

From 13 to 23 September 2010
CONTAGIARTE Oporto, Portugal

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