ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
Open Calls and redisencies 2021-2022 The support programme for contemporary creation is articulated through several calls aimed at promoting projects via a strategy focused on accompaniment, complicity and mutual reward. This relationship with artists enables us to share creative practice, favouring other production process times, as well as mediate with the artistic community, active cultural agents and society.
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Several creation accompaniment programmes are currently active, while other new calls are made.
Babestu. Support programme for contemporary creation Call for projects aimed at fostering artistic creation and dissemination. From 15 March to 31 May 2021 Lantegia. Laboratory of ideas In 2020 Azkuna Zentroa launched the first Babestu call as an extraordinary support programme for contemporary creation in response to the exceptional circumstances stemming from the COVID-19 crisis. Hence the need in 2021 to continue to foster artistic creation, furthering these gestation processes and assisting people in the development of their projects. The purpose is to foster the support and dissemination of contemporary creation and culture, stimulating the exchange of experiences, ideas and views, and likewise supporting the local creative fabric in its multidisciplinary and transversal dimension. Within the framework of this call, five artistic practice projects related to the Centre's
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programme lines will be selected, one of which must address the issue of writing and the word, and enter into dialogue with the BBK Mediateka. Babestu likewise seeks to be a tool at the service of artists in the undertaking of creative projects related to the Centre's programme and lines of action. It also facilitates the communities of public’s introduction to contemporary artistic reflection, and creates discussion positioning culture as a tool for transformation. The call prioritises the selection of projects meeting these requirements, with an emphasis not so much on the end product but rather on its execution. Babestu is framed within Lantegia. Laboratory of Ideas, located in the third building of the Centre, dedicated to the production and visualisation of artistic projects. The selected artists, in addition to the support, advice and mediation of Azkuna Zentroa, will receive 6,000 Euros.
