Contemporary cultural center at Las Cigarreras Alicante it will be a few months Workplace one for this year fifteen creative, chosen andAmong more than 200 offers those coming from different parts of the country’s territory and abroad. The first one has already started to fill their place this month. In the Las Cigarreras pits, others will do so in April and September.
Its arrival is due to the launch of the first artistic and creative housing program developed in this area by the Ministry of Culture. Land Creative Residenceswith a budget 190.000 €It was co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund (Feder)-Edusi Alicante for the Las Cigarreras area in the San Antón district.
photography (four residences), view (fly), experimental electronic music (four) and audiovisual (four) are the disciplines from which proposals will be developed, of which three have already started: two photography and one landscape.
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Alicante Caroline DiegoThe award for the best project developed during the PhotoAlicante Master is one of those selected for the photography project. nature is deadproposes an investigation with a critical component. Diego, via a photo series the viewer thinks about the relationship they currently have with the food they atewith the intent to foster a moral, ethical and scientific debate revolving around questions like what to eat for future generations.
antonio guerra (Zamora, 1983), who published the book in 2022 the light that blinds us He is a partner of Dalpine y Kursala publishing house and Diego. photography specialization with the project constantly indecisive. It plans to cover in Changing issues from the geological history of the province of Alicante and from ancient production systems in mines to new concepts of the contemporary landscape and existing connectivity. between technology, waste and the environment.
Abel Jaramillo with Small vocabulary for a big secret And Marina Bobo with kiss He was also selected for the photography specialization that will start in 2017. September. this call, led by the collective, all goodAccompanying the participants in their projects, providing economic support to the artists. 5.050 € for each through fees and charges.
The third participant who started his specialization is an artist from Madrid. Ines RoomIt is located in the first residence devoted to landscape under the title of. once in a while and what governs fourth volume, Chosen by a jury of experts from Bilbao, Madrid and Alicante from more than twenty people Offer from 5 countrieshouse project, undermine the aspirationswho will receive 6,500 euros.
Inés Cámara, who recently arrived after eight years in London, will work for two months at Las Cigarreras around Benacantilimagining new ways of relating to the mountain through its drought. The starting point of the project is the extinction of the pamphilla butterfly, a species that went extinct in recent years because it could not find food in Alicante. This will take you to visit all the tiers of custom paying Benacantil. Beware of human and non-human inhabitants. Against this, three actions – a route, a pétanque tournament in the mountains and a movie screening in Pozos de Garrigós. three Saturdays with the public.