Listening, space, resources but also experiences and visions.
Starting from a desire to imagine where you can go.
Welcome to DESIRESIDE.

This is the space that BASE devotes to thinking and discussing art residencies.


RESIDE ↗ is practice, experimentation and co-design
DESIRE ↘ is dialogue, critical thinking

What kind of democracy can a residence foster? How do we learn to live together? DESIRESIDE sparks dialogue and collective imagination to explore these vital questions.

Openness to disciplines, communities and creative bureaucracy as support models for residencies

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Reasoning about policies and different models of support for residencies have been the subject of discussion and debate for some…

New democratic laboratories of imagination

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The discussion about creative residencies can be structured assessing three main topics: The role of cultural institutions (cultural organisations and…

Accessibility as a form of democracy

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What kind of democracy can a residence foster? How do we learn to live together? DESIRESIDE sparks dialogue and collective…

Pratiche artistiche e sviluppo territoriale

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Questo contributo è la rielaborazione dell’intervento di Silvia Bottiroli durante l’assemblea collettiva promossa da BASE DESIRESIDE Residenze Transdisciplinari, pratiche e modelli…

RESIDE: residencies, workshops, and public presentations, all centered on design, culture, and contemporary art

Seeds of Resistance: Eco-political Struggles in the Levant

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Seeds of Resistance: Eco-political Struggles in the Levant maps traditions of land-based resistance and alternative ecological and political visions emerging…

Jail Time Records: exploring freedom through incarceration

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As artists, Dione and Steve have always used their artistic mediums to help give a voice to incarcerated people, using…

Hide — Edoardo Mozzanega

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In residency at BASE Milano, Edoardo Mozzanega brings HIDE is the cave where hominids cohabited with big felines, their predators,…

Playing Ground — Isabella Martin

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The city moves, where does it go? Maybe it leads to the sea. The city speaks, what does it tell?…

BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SA SMYTHE

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“I am all the things I have loved”. This is the starting point for the third movement of ‘proclivity’, a…

Barrani — Corps Citoyen

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In Syria I was a Frenchman, in France I was an Arab with a strange name. Riad Sattouf, The Arab…

Missing Outs — Elisabetta Consonni

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As you read these words, you are missing something. What is it? Who knows. Missing Outs is rooted in missed…

Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter

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In residency at BASE Milano, Eléa Jeanne Schmitter worked on a new project that seeks to define masculinities in sport:…

Stories of the Last Days — Livia Bartolucci

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After living for two months on the Infinity Expedition: a sailing ship engaged in an original environmental protection project, with…

Whatever I am / let it be seen — Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin

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Whatever I am / let it be seen is the translation from the Turkish of a prayer that is traditionally…

CU*MMIA*1 –– Danila Gambettola ENdangered ENsemble

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CU*MMIA*1 is the beginning of a magical and political process of self-defense that redresses and redeems the cultural and social…

BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SAGAL FARAH

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Il mezzogiorno solare, il punto medio tra l’alba e il tramonto, è quando il sole raggiunge il suo punto più…

Al.Di.Qua.Artists

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“Al.Di.Qua.Artists”, acronimo del più lungo ALternative DIsability QUAlity Artists, è la prima associazione europea di e per artist e lavorat…

DESIRESIDE is also published as an editorial project, reflecting on our programme and the wishes we’ve fulfilled over the past year.

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CASE REMAPPED: two residencies dedicated to social islands

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“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. ¹ This expression, brimming with lucidity…

A practice for free movement of projects

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How many – and which – projects do we leave behind when selecting others? The answer we would like to give…

So... is this getting serious?

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