Residencies

We are a multidisciplinary research centre in the performing, visual and design arts.

With an annual residency programme, we offer listening, space and resources to emerging generations of artists, with a focus on queer, racialised and disabled communities, providing a protected space for research and production.

HIGHLIGHTS

OPEN CALL FOR EMERGING ARTISTS CREATING IN PUBLIC SPACE

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Starting from 2025, the IN SITU network will launch PLATFORM, a four-year programme to identify and support 200 emerging artists….

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…

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…

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…

Rules of the Game

  1. EXPERIMENTATION LABORATORY

    We give space to process: free space to make mistakes, to try and experiment, to think and produce, to create and share. We establish long-term relationships with artists and work alongside them to experiment with new ideas, at the intersection of performance art and design, photography and dance, public art and music.

  2. THE CURE IS POLITICAL

    We provide technical support, mentoring and financial resources by guaranteeing a space for research and production, fostering the connection between the artistic community and the local context, and offering a dedicated, protected and comfortable work space and hospitality.

  3. BEING A CITY WORKSHOP

    Imagining new forms of living is not only the task of architecture: we support emerging artists in the area and challenge the artistic community to immerse themselves in the reality of the city in order to break rules and boundaries, reconfigure spaces and human relations, and bring art and the public dimension into dialogue through artistic languages.

  4. ENGINE OF CHANGE

    Rethinking the contemporary through artistic languages: our residency programme exposes bodies, identities, cultures and unforeseen natures, fitting into BASE’s broader framework of reflection, which sees us committed to mitigate forms of racialisation and cultural colonialism, abilism and gender discrimination.

FROM THE ARCHIVE — RESIDENCIES

Yosra Tourki —  Takbir: ALLAHU AKBAR
Yosra Tourki — Takbir: ALLAHU AKBAR
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A collective performance, an open discussion in which everyone responds to ALLAHU AKBAR, trying to discover the beauty of that…
Microbial Futures Lab — Eva Bubla
Microbial Futures Lab — Eva Bubla
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Microbial Futures Lab is a traveling laboratory, an ever-expanding collection of future medicines, treatments, rituals, and narratives that reflect on…
CU*MMIA*1  –– Danila Gambettola ENdangered ENsemble
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…
Whatever I am / let it be seen — Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
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…
Stories of the Last Days  — Livia Bartolucci
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…
Hide — Edoardo Mozzanega
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,…
Mombao
Mombao
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Mombao è un duo formato da Damon Arabsolgar e Anselmo Luisi. Progetto immersivo e originale, a metà strada tra una…
F. De Isabella — MAI+
F. De Isabella — MAI+
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F. De Isabella questions artistic production practices from a transfeminist and queer per spective. For several years now, he has…
Kelly Ardens — Il Margine
Kelly Ardens — Il Margine
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Kelly Ardens, alias Chiara Pintus, è un’artista mistica neurodivergente originaria della Sardegna. La sua arte è caotica e multiforme, in…
Francesca Grilli — RECORD
Francesca Grilli — RECORD
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Francesca Grilli è un’artista italiana multidisciplinare con sede a Bruxelles, nota per lavori che intrecciano performance, installazioni e video, esplorando…
Martina Rota — With All My Strength
Martina Rota — With All My Strength
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Martina Rota è un’artista attiva nelle arti visive e performative, co-fondatrice e curatrice di “EXPANDING MOVEMENT”, workshop di movimento e…
Calderoni—Caleo
Calderoni—Caleo
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Calderoni-Caleo si incontrano nel 2012 al Teatro Valle Occupato e iniziano un progetto comune tra residenze artistiche, atelier di ricerca…
Alice Giuliani — A.ROOM.POURED.OVER.ME
Alice Giuliani — A.ROOM.POURED.OVER.ME
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Alice Giuliani è una performer e dance-maker attiva in Italia, Belgio e Svizzera. La sua ricerca si concentra sul corpo…
Morini — Pala
Morini — Pala
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Fedra Morini è attivista, performer e autrice, con studi in Lettere Antiche e Arti Performative. Vive e lavora tra Milano…
Valerie Tameu — Dove hanno tremato le placche
Valerie Tameu — Dove hanno tremato le placche
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Valerie Tameu è un’autrice e performer, laureata in danza presso la Facoltà di Cinema, Spettacolo, Musica e Media di Torino….
Rooy Charlie Lana — Nei Porno Non Piove
Rooy Charlie Lana — Nei Porno Non Piove
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Rooy Charlie Lana è un’artista nel campo delle arti visive performative e degli studi queer. Ha sviluppato l’identità Transghost e…
Xavier Madden e Katja Banović
Xavier Madden e Katja Banović
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Xavier Madden e Katja Banović sono architetti e designer con sede a Vienna, in Austria, e a Pola, in Croazia….
Arisandmartha
Arisandmartha
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Arisandmartha è la collaborazione creativa tra ballerin , “performer e danzator Aris Papadopoulos e Martha Pasakopoulou. Con sede ad Atene,…
Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter
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:…
Erica Petrillo
Erica Petrillo
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Erica Petrillo è una curatrice con una formazione in filosofia politica e scienze sociali che vive a Milano, dove collabora…
Barrani — Corps Citoyen
Barrani — Corps Citoyen
In Syria I was a Frenchman, in France I was an Arab with a strange name. Riad Sattouf, The Arab…
Missing Outs — Elisabetta Consonni
Missing Outs — Elisabetta Consonni
As you read these words, you are missing something. What is it? Who knows. Missing Outs is rooted in missed…
Donika Rudi — Lament of the Earth
Donika Rudi — Lament of the Earth
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Donika Rudi è una compositrice e artista associata di IN SITU. Attraverso le sue composizioni acusmatiche ed elettroacustiche, Donika crea…
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SA SMYTHE
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SA SMYTHE
"I am all the things I have loved". This is the starting point for the third movement of 'proclivity', a…
ZimmerFrei — DE LOS MUERTOS
ZimmerFrei — DE LOS MUERTOS
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ZimmerFrei è un collettivo artistico fondato a Bologna da Anna de Manincor, artista e filmmaker, e Massimo Carozzi, sound designer…
Playing Ground — Isabella Martin
Playing Ground — Isabella Martin
The city moves, where does it go? Maybe it leads to the sea. The city speaks, what does it tell?…
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SAGAL FARAH
BIRDS OF PASSAGE #2 — SAGAL FARAH
Birds of passage
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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…
Mistura Allison
Mistura Allison
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Mistura Allison è una ricercatrice, curatrice e storica dell’arte indipendente che vive tra Londra e Milano. È la fondatrice di…
Al.Di.Qua.Artists
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…
Soukaina Abrour — Mra7ba
Soukaina Abrour — Mra7ba
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Soukaina Abrour, born in Morocco and raised in Italy, lives and works in Milan. Her artistic practice is transdisciplinary, ranging…
Lucia Di Pietro — La Conferenza sullo scomparire
Lucia Di Pietro — La Conferenza sullo scomparire
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Lucia Di Pietro is a choreographer who combines performance, relational art and site-specific interventions in her artistic practice. Her works…
Barbara Stimoli & Titta Cosetta Raccagni — Pleasure Rocks
Barbara Stimoli & Titta Cosetta Raccagni — Pleasure Rocks
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Titta Cosetta Raccagni is a transmedial art worker, her research and production, strongly influenced by issues of gender and sexuality,…
Simon Dogger — Design Beyond Vision
Simon Dogger — Design Beyond Vision
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Simon Dogger designer cieco laureato alla Design Academy Eindhoven, esplora un design inclusivo, multisensoriale e innovativo. Il suo lavoro mira…
Davide Tagliabue
Davide Tagliabue
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Davide Tagliabue, laureato al Politecnico di Milano in ingegneria edilizia, dedica la sua ricerca a lavori installativi. Ha lavorato con…
Christopher Amm — Circolare in una rete di linee che s’intersecano
Christopher Amm — Circolare in una rete di linee che s’intersecano
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Christopher Amm – visual artist, uses murals, drawings, artist’s books, works on paper, objects and films and questions the correlations…
Elisabeth Verrat e Alban Magd — 98800, resurgens-résurgences-rinascita
Elisabeth Verrat e Alban Magd — 98800, resurgens-résurgences-rinascita
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The research of Elisabeth Verrat, artist and photographer, explores the hidden details of the landscape, seeking to connect the terrestrial…
Rosalie Piras — Rendez-vous autour du brasero
Rosalie Piras — Rendez-vous autour du brasero
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Rosalie Piras si occupa di progettazione di spazi e oggetti, lavorando sul concetto di design sociale. Si interroga su modi…
Quattrox4 e Beniamino Barrese — OLTRE GRETEL
Quattrox4 e Beniamino Barrese — OLTRE GRETEL
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Quattrox4 is a centre that is committed to the valorisation of contemporary circus to promote its legitimacy among the performing…
Lucia Palladino — Correspondances
Lucia Palladino — Correspondances
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Lucia Palladino, a Brussels-based multimedia artist and researcher, she explores the field of performance and choreography by integrating artistic practice…
Extragarbo — Fin che ci trema il cuore
Extragarbo — Fin che ci trema il cuore
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Extragarbo is a curatorial platform for performing arts formed by Cosimo Ferrigolo, artist and light designer, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, poet…
Emke Idema — School of Unlived Worlds
Emke Idema — School of Unlived Worlds
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Emke Idema is a Dutch artist who works at the intersection of play, social sciences and visual arts and is…
Maddalena Fragnito — I DO NOT HAVE A DREAM JOB, I DON’T DREAM OF LABOUR
Maddalena Fragnito — I DO NOT HAVE A DREAM JOB, I DON’T DREAM OF LABOUR
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Maddalena Fragnito is a militant researcher moving in and out of academia in the fields of cultural and media studies,…
Francesca Tambussi — Hyperburgers
Francesca Tambussi — Hyperburgers
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Francesca Tambussi, designer and researcher, explores the Commons as a contemporary urban practice, with a queer and glocal approach. After…
Parasite 2.0 — They Will Design
Parasite 2.0 — They Will Design
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Parasite 2.0 is a design and research agency based in Milan and London, founded by Stefano Colombo, Eugenio Cosentino and…
Francesca Marconi — Manifesto al Presente
Francesca Marconi — Manifesto al Presente
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Francesca Marconi has been dealing with the experimentation and cross-contamination of contemporary art languages, with a focus on the dialogue…
Michele Rizzo
Michele Rizzo
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Michele Rizzo is a choreographer and performer who lives and works between Amsterdam and Milan. He teaches at the School…
Sara Leghissa
Sara Leghissa
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Sara Leghissa, is an independent artist, active in the field of performance art. Her work em braces creation, stage action…
Zelda Soussan e Ruggero Franceschini
Zelda Soussan e Ruggero Franceschini
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Zelda Soussan, theatre director and performer, is the artistic director of LUIT. With a de gree in Theatre and Geography…

CALL

CLOSED CALL! ENdangered ENsemble — call for two artistic residencies

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ENdangered ENsemble is a call for two artistic residencies aimed at artistic ensembles/assemblies wishing to explore contemporary practices and languages,…

CASE REMAPPED: two residencies dedicated to social islands

arte
call
design
residenze
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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…

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