The Port House released this Tuesday a online platform for the dissemination of spaces and artist residency projects in Porto. It is called InResidencePorto and want to attract and provide an opportunity for national and international artists to develop art projects in the city. Alongside the artistic residencies, the municipality will launch next year, Bags InResidencePorto to support artistic creation.
“The idea is to provide an interface for national and international designers, from which they may know of a synthetic and systematic manner, ways to develop artistic projects in the city,” said the president of the Port Board Rui Moreira.
Beyond the Bad Habits, which was presented the project, Casa Oficina Antonio Carneiro De Liceiras18, the Flying Suitcase, Mira Space, the Press Museum, Sonoscopia and the Teatro Municipal do Porto are . the locations shown on the platform and where potential creators can install
website is divided by artistic area: visual Arts, Film and video, criticism and literature, music and sound, performing arts. The eight areas fall into the categories, depending on their capacity for projects in these areas. Also, on page of each residence can find information about space, how is that artists can apply, to whom it is intended, as are projects selected, in short, useful information to artists who there want to develop his ingenuity and art.
“What we want is to create conditions for artists, whether national or international, anchor in the Port and to discover what the city has to offer within residency programs,” stressed Rui Moreira .
The draft communication, drawn in Portuguese and English, aims to give international visibility to the spaces and creators of Porto, like international platforms that already exist as the Alliance of Artists Communities .
To enhance the attractiveness of the city, the municipality will also launch next year, Bags InResidencePorto Rui Moreira defines as “co-productions between the House and the spaces residence to stay. ” Thus, the creators who want to install one of the spaces allocated to the project will be able to apply for a grant to create an artistic project of residence for two months. The reimbursement will be 4000 euros for national artists, 5000 for Europe and 6000 euros for outside Europe. The amount available will include spending on travel (which explains the variation in the amounts), stay, living expenses, and even a “slice” for production. The management of each program contract entered into with the artists will be the responsibility of the partner areas.
“The number of scholarships will depend on the number of spaces. We are available to work in coordination with all spaces we can detect that are able to develop projects in residence stay, “said the deputy Rui Moreira for Culture, William Blanc. The goal is set, “an annual co-production contract for space.” Therefore, the forecast is to proceed initially with eight bags. “This will depend a lot on our joint ability to attract and make this a more fertile ground for artistic production,” said the mayor. And Rui Moreira does not rule out the possibility of strengthening the budget if demand warrants.
In the presentation of InResidencePorto , Rui Moreira highlighted the disappearance of two residence spaces in the city, in the last three months. “This is a symptom of this joint was necessary and that the project itself is relevant, to provide opportunities for contemporary artistic creation.”
The eight areas are concentrated in the city center (Bad Habits, In Liceiras 18 Flying Suitcase and Porto Municipal Theatre) but do not stop there. Extend the Prelate (Sonoscopia), and the area of Campanhã (Mira Space and Casa Oficina Antonio Carneiro). The latter area has been reborn thanks to the culture in its various forms . Mira Space the project for the old Abattoir and pole Puppet Port Museum have put the Campanhã in cultural tours of the city as a territory of artistic creation.
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