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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

ALL ABOUT RESIDENCIES

TALAMO
TALAMO
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‘Thalamus’ [from Latin thalămus], is a term with multiple meanings. Since classical times, it has denoted the bridal chamber and…
Di Venti e Correnti. In balìa
Di Venti e Correnti. In balìa
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‘In balìa’ is a Cagliari terrace full of wind-markers that rotate, wave and sway, changing direction when the wind blows…
CANCEL PATRIARCHY
CANCEL PATRIARCHY
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Claire Fontaine's installation consists of two works, Patriarchy kills (love) and We are all clitoridian women, which denounce the dangers…
The future is an invisible playground
The future is an invisible playground
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‘This is a ’light poem' dedicated to winter and the solstice to mark the transition from 2020 to 2021. With…
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,…
Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter
Le Nouveau Grand Tour 2023 — Eléa Jeanne Schmitter
In residency at BASE Milano, Eléa Jeanne Schmitter worked on a new project that seeks to define masculinities in sport:…
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…
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…
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…
Al.Di.Qua.Artists
Al.Di.Qua.Artists
“Al.Di.Qua.Artists”, acronimo del più lungo ALternative DIsability QUAlity Artists, è la prima associazione europea di e per artist e lavorat…

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

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Residences
“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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