Each participant will have to propose a curatorial team, made up of an individual and/or an institution, responsible for supervising the project. The curator can invite an institution or the institution itself can propose a curator to represent it.
The curatorial team has the role of guiding and supporting the development of the artist/designer's work during the residency period, as a guide that balances their autonomy and ensures that their experience is productive and enriching for both them and the public. The curatorial team's responsibilities include:
The curatorial team has the role of guiding and supporting the development of the artist/designer's work during the residency period, as a guide that balances their autonomy and ensures that their experience is productive and enriching for both them and the public. The curatorial team's responsibilities include:
Conceptual orientation
Helping the resident to organise and refine their ideas and creative approaches, through critical and constructive discussion of concept, content and techniques, and by suggesting new directions for the work.
Helping the resident to organise and refine their ideas and creative approaches, through critical and constructive discussion of concept, content and techniques, and by suggesting new directions for the work.
Facilitating resources
Granting access to adequate resources for the development of the project, such as space, equipment, tools and work materials, as well as facilitating liaison with other professionals or institutions, with particular concern for obtaining new data and references, as well as partial or total financial and/or technical support for the development of the project.
Promotion and dissemination
Promoting the work of the resident and facilitating opportunities for them to showcase the project in different media and forms of dissemination, such as exhibitions, events, digital platforms, interviews, articles, etc.
Finding and selecting content
Guide the resident in selecting content from printed publications (books, newspapers, articles, essays, etc.) and online (websites, newsletters, social networks, etc.), as well as empirical (interviews, conversations, conferences, workshops, etc.).
Logistical support
Helping the resident with practical issues of organisation, production and planning of tasks, visits, technical and financial support, exhibition of work, events.
Guide the resident in selecting content from printed publications (books, newspapers, articles, essays, etc.) and online (websites, newsletters, social networks, etc.), as well as empirical (interviews, conversations, conferences, workshops, etc.).
Logistical support
Helping the resident with practical issues of organisation, production and planning of tasks, visits, technical and financial support, exhibition of work, events.
Dialogue and feedback
Maintaining ongoing communication with the resident that not only ensures the progress of the work, but also provides constructive criticism that helps them evolve in their practice.