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

DESIRE: collective thinking and imagination

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 democracy can a residence invent? Perhaps one in which several instances, bodies, voices, identities have a margin of expression…

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: realizations

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…

CALLS AND EXPERIMENTATIONS

CASE REMAPPED: a call for two residencies

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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…

Una pratica per la libera circolazione dei progetti

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Quanti – e quali – progetti lasciamo indietro quando ne selezioniamo altri? La risposta che vorremmo dare è: nessuno. Per…

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