Open Call for Artists in Residence Dados Negros AIR 2016

  Holography & Art Centre Dados Negros 

Villanueva de los Infantes (Ciudad Real) SPAIN

Dados Negros Centre welcomes two artists in residence during the month of July 2016 by procuring a place to research, create and reflect, facilitating the development of the creative process of their projects, which will be evaluated prior to their stay in the center by AIR a public call open until April 26, 2016.

This program is open to international artists, linked to any artistic discipline and offers a maximum of 2 places with a stay of 1 month.

Check out the rules of the open call AIR Dados Negros 2016  

http://www.dadosnegros.com/download/air/Dados_Negros_AIR_2016_EN.pdf

 'Dados Negros' poem by Dionisio Cañas

 Landscape surrounding Centro Dados Negros

 "Convidados", October 2014.

 Workshop La Más Bella, May 2015.  

Night in Centro Dados Negros

Residency Programme Rules AIR 2016

The Pepe Buitrago Foundation organises its first Residency Fellowship for Artists.

Dados Negros AIR 2016 is a programme whose aim is to offer support to both Spanish and international artists. An artist is defined as a person whose work is related to the creation and production of contemporary art concepts, and who wishes to develop a research or creative project.

Duration: One month at the facilities of the ‘Dados Negros’ Holography and Art Centre in Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real.

Date: July 2016.

Grant: Each Residency Fellowship is accompanied by a grant of €300.

Accommodation: The ‘Dados Negros’ Centre will provide all the selected artists with a double room with a private bathroom, a common kitchen-dining room area and a workspace shared with other Residency Fellowship artists.

Workspaces: The schedules for the workspaces and the spaces themselves will be agreed upon depending on each project’s needs and the availability of the Centre’s spaces.

Expenses to be paid for by the artists themselves: Travel, food allowances, medical coverage/accident insurance.

Agreement: The artists selected agree to offer a training activity for the local community that is related to their respective Residency projects. This training activity can be in the form of a free lecture for the attending public or an intensive workshop – for which the artist will receive 70% of the fees paid for by the attending participants. (The remaining 30% will go to the Foundation to cover expenses). If artists choose the training activity, they must send detailed information about it, together with their Residency project.

The obligations of the beneficiaries
• To fully fulfil the period for which their Residency Fellowship was granted.
• If the artist cannot undertake the residency on the dates allocated, they must give at least thirty (30) days written notice.
• The artists authorise the Pepe Buitrago Foundation to copy, fully or in part, and only for purposes of the promotion and diffusion of the Programme, the artworks created during the Residency Fellowship. In addition, they shall mention in all works and initiatives resulting from their Residency period their relationship with ‘Dados Negros’ and the Pepe Buitrago Foundation the statement: “With the support of ‘Dados Negros’ Holography and Art Centre. Pepe Buitrago Foundation”.
• The artists must ensure the maintenance of the spaces and materials and regularly attend the Centre as established. Noncompliance of said maintenance, as well as any absence that could jeopardise the development of the project in the period established will result in a severance of the relationship with the Centre.
• Artists must take out their own Accident Insurance to cover any personal harm suffered during their stay at the Centre. Important: This Residency Fellowship does not include medical coverage. Each resident artist must personally take out medical coverage valid for their period of Residency at ‘Dados Negros’. The Pepe Buitrago Foundation and the ‘Dados Negros’ Centre is not liable for medical expenses.
• The artists agree to return the space used in the same condition they initially found it in.
• The artists selected agree to mention the support received from the ‘Dados Negros’ Holography and Art Centre and the Pepe Buitrago Foundation in all public communications regarding the project developed during their Residency Programme. The ‘Dados Negros’ Holography and Art Centre and the Pepe Buitrago Foundation are not liable for any damage or loss that the materials and artworks created could suffer as a result of any type kind of incidence (fire, theft, flooding, etc.).

Selection: The selection of artists will be carried out by the Dados Negros Centre’s Programmes Committee taking into account the artistic quality and creativeness of the applicants’ works, their training and/or professional path, the nature and feasibility of their proposals, and the projects’ suitability to the resources that the ‘Dados Negros’ Centre can offer.

Decision: The artists selected will be informed of the decision on 30 May 2016, and their names will be posted on the Foundation’s website, http://www.dadosnegros.com.

Applications:
To apply for a Residency Fellowship, the following documents must be sent:
1) Application form. Attached here, and filled out with your personal details
2) Copy of id Card/Resident’s Card or Passport
3) Proposal or project to be carried out. Title, short description, work plan, personal reasons for applying. Photographs or sketches of the planned work
4) Residency project and a brief cv
5) Portfolio of previous work (optional)

For documents 3, 4 and 5, only pdf files (up to 8 Mb) will be accepted. Projects can be sent either in Spanish or English. Applications with incomplete information will be considered invalid.

Deadline for receipt of applications: 26 April 2016 

Send your application: 

By email: contacto@dadosnegros.com

By post:
Centro Dados Negros
C/ Fuente Quintana, 3
13320 Villanueva de los Infantes
Ciudad Real - Spain

Your participation in this selection process involves your full acceptance of these rules, as well as that of the decision of the selection panel.
Should you need any further information, please email us at contacto@dadosnegros.com and write “2016 Artists Residency” in the subject line.

Complete rules and registration form at the following link:

http://www.dadosnegros.com/download/air/Dados_Negros_AIR_2016_EN.pdf 

 Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, Spain. 

New container in Alg-a

On September 2011, Cidade da Cultura de Galicia hosted the I Encuentro de Artistas Jóvenes where 100 young creators could share and discuss about current position of the artist and the future of contemporary art production.

After meeting participants were invited to make a presentation in a container located at Cidade. This proposal was the collective project "Container Inside".
A modular structure attached to Biblioteca de Galicia, or what is the same, a container as exhibition space, library and documentation center. A space with proposals of creators participants.

Container arriving at Cidade da Cultura.

On summer 2012, and before arrival of the second edition of his meeting, it was time to decide what to do with this container
From Rural C we proposed to donate to Alg-a Lab, association with whom we work and collaborate, developping different projects.
Following discussions of the participants, this was the option granted by people. So the container arrived in Alg-a, in Valadares.

Now, to use, reuse it and reuse it again in its new location.

Performance by Paulina À la Plage at Alg-a Lab on new container´s opening day.

NOISEmede, festival of noise and electronic music

Last 18 and 19 of August of 2012 we organized a festival of noise and electronic music in SAUMEDE, a small village in Ourense, (Galicia).
A RuralC event in collaboration with ACAS association.

Saumede has become a project of rebuilding an abandoned rural space. The place is a small village located in a biosphere reserve in south of Ourense. The association has rehabilitated houses and paths, and develops cultural activities since 2011, dynamizing socio-cultural life of the area.

Our contribution was to introduce and coordinate a day of noise in the village landscape.
For that we invited to perform various musicians and Galician groups.
Here you can watch a video summary of concerts:

Poster NOISEmede 2012

A morning visit in the village, visiting houses in process of restoration

A hundred-year-old chestnut tree

Sound check of 23 Red Ants

Hedonistas in Touch & Play 

"Neanderled", light installation by DIOSK

Koroiev performing among day and night

23 red ants

Os Gru

Pictures by Juanma LoDo & Fur Alle Falle. 

REMAGOSTO

REMAGOSTO is a Micro-festival, participatory and familiar.
Located in Piñeiro de arriba, Vilachá, Monfero, A Coruña, Galicia.
A RuralC activity coordinated by Fur Alle Falle .

Magosto is a party linked to Autumn and chestnut.
In Galicia chestnuts goes with mushrooms, first turnip´s green sprouts, good scads, and the beginning of new winter garden.
This week in mid-November in the woods we found many Hydnum repandum / rufescens, mushrooms colloquially called cow tongue or cat tongue.  The Hydnum family is characterized by these kind of stings they have under the cap (not sheets or pores).

Usually not attacked by the larvae, their flesh is dense and slightly bitter flavour, soft and pleasant. One Sunday was a good day to make them such stew of chickpeas, so it was the main course of Remagosto. After lunch, sweet "larpeiras" and liquors, including a small cake made with fluorescent yellow corn flour. 

 
After this after lunch, the concert of the engineer and poet Federico Flesfa Dublé. Galician bricotrance prepared with beautiful guitar arpeggios chained with voices, batteries with cushions, and fun polyphonic metals. It was in the loft of the house. A loft whose irregular beams were brought in 1920 from Eume´s woods.

 
vídeo by Marcos Nine

And after this concert, a session of slides and 16mm cinema, all with found-footage material, found or recycled. Reviewed and turned by Marcos Nine, Juan Lesta, Ximena Losada and Belén Montero.

"flounces to fly, gyga-wardrove, eels of the Albufera lagoon, indignant hostesses, children on boat, where was this airport?, sweeping a crystal Christ ..."
 

After these screenings we had improvised songs with Os Gru, talks and walk by plot, with the sound of a little owl and starry sky. We were 12 hours.

Cimarrón Rock at RC Villanueva del Duque

From RURAL Contemporánea we support everyone who dynamize the countrryside.

On the 7 of January of 2011, at RC Villanueva del Duque, there was a concert of the group Cimarrón Rock. A group from Villanueva de Córdoba, neighbour town. The seven members showed us their good repertory.
The event was documented in video by José Jurado, responsible of RC in this town.

Sheep and goat from Picos de Europa in Potes (Cantabria)

The weekend of the 21 and the 22 of November we attended to "V Regional Contest of Sheep and Goat from Picos de Europa" in the village of Potes (Cantabria). Within a broad program for the recovery of bones-break in Picos de Europa, as well as a number of activities specific to rural areas including the purchase and sale of sheep and goat, trade of  typical products and crafts of the area.
This contest is to promote Picos de Europa in local, regional and national levels, highlighting the cattle culture and biodiversity as two of its core values and promoting the consumption of traditional products obtained in a sustainable way, such as cheese, lamb or goat. This year, the lambs will be of the new brand linked to the shepherds from Liébana, "Lechazos Montañas de Liébana" that have been sampled in a popular lamb stew at the end of the sheep shearing contest. The Contest is organized by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bones-Break and the Municipality of Potes.