Zuecca Projects’ Call for Applications: AD BESTIAS Art Residency
Arte, Design, Teatro, Arti Performative, Cinema, Fotografia, Altro
Salizada Streta 368, Venice, VE, 30122, Italia
03/11/2024 - 31/01/2025
Zuecca Projects announces the first open call for its Art Residency program at Squero
Castello in Venice, Italy.
Selected artists will be invited to join the Zuecca Art Residency and to develop new artworks inspired by the dystopian Eco-totalitarian novel Ad Bestias by Francesca Sarah Toich.
Artists of all disciplines, ages and nationalities are invited to apply for the opportunity
to be selected for a 4-week Art Residency in Venice, between November 2024 and
January 2025.
Theme of the Art Residency:
Ad Bestias, a novel by the Italian writer and performer Francesca Sarah Toich, is the
theme of this edition of the Zuecca Art Residency.
The novel is about a dystopian future in which a vegan dictatorial regime has taken
control. Women are used as gestation capsules for endangered mammalian animals,
as in the case of the protagonist who finds herself pregnant with a white rhino cub.
The themes faced in the novel – which will be the focus of the Art Residency - are Eco-
totalitarism, dystopia, metamorphosis, veganism, anatomical colonization, repopulation of endangered animal species and self-induced extinction, science fiction and weather control.
A few extracts (in Italian, English and French) from the novel can be found here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1m3RyoxxKCzFZ6UucW7wL-ykhz5e7VrJ3/view
During their stay at the Zuecca Art Residency, the selected artist/s will have the
opportunity to meet and interact with the author of the novel in order to develop the
work.
The images of the work/s produced during the residency will be included in the
forthcoming editorial project dedicated to Ad Bestias.
Application process:
To participate in the call, artists need to submit the following materials by email to
submission@zueccaprojectspace.com:
- CV with full name, contact details, most relevant solo and group exhibitions,
publications and residencies;
- portfolio* or website link with artworks produced;
*Max 5MB by email; if the size exceeds the 5MB please share it via Google
Drive or Dropbox
- sketch of an artwork inspired by Ad Bestias and/or a project proposal describing
the artwork/s to be produced during the Art Residency.
All required materials must be submitted by 15 September 2024.
Entries that are incomplete or do not meet the above requirements will not be considered.
Submissions will be reviewed by Zuecca Projects and the author Francesca Sarah
Toich. Only selected artist/s will be contacted by email by 15 October 2024.
Zuecca Art Residency:
Zuecca Art Residency, managed by the Venetian art organisation Zuecca Projects, is
hosted at Squero Castello, a former gondola boatyard in Venice, which has been
transformed into an exhibition space and art residency.
The Art Residency includes: A/R travel to/from Venice, studio space for production
(Squero Castello), apartment in Venice for the duration of the residency, support in
Venice.
