IMAGINE OUR COMMON FUTURE!

Lisa Maria Baier and Alexandre Benetas-Ottobrini are selected for DIALOG CITY RESIDENCY in Aschaffenburg and in Montpellier 2025

The residency in Montpellier will start April 21, 2025, and the final presentation will be showcased at the FUTURE FESTIVAL MONTPELLIER in partnership with the Festival Des Architectures Vives, from 10 to 15 June 2025. The residency in Aschaffenburg will commence May 2, 2025, and the results will be exhibited during at the FUTURE FESTIVAL ASCHAFFENBURG in close cooperation with the Cultural Days of Aschaffenburg, from July 3-5, 2025.

For Montpellier, the jury selected Alexandre Benetas-Ottobrini, a Paris-based food artist with a master’s degree in design and culinary arts from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Reims (FR).

For Aschaffenburg, the jury selected Lisa Maria Baier, a contemporary visual artist. Lisa completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden and the University of Fine Arts Budapest and lives and works in Dresden.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Our DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites professional artists from all disciplines —ranging from painting, photography, and sculpture to design and architecture— to apply for the art residencies in Montpellier (FR) and Aschaffenburg (DE).

For the Montpellier (France) art residency we aim to question how human identities and bodies are increasingly shaped by the digital data we produce and consume. Being fed by data, our online profiles reflect analog humans and are continuously constructed through micro-targeting and digital profiling, where personal data is used to tailor content and experiences. For more information, please see here.

The art residency in Aschaffenburg (Germany) will take place under the theme Society in Transition. We particularly welcome project proposals that highlight aspects of sustainability and/or cultural heritage. For more information, please see here.

What about the future?

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Is your artistic work tackling current issues at stake such as climate change, migration, gender, justice or digitalisation? Are you working in the field of arts and education?

Are you an artist or a cultural practitioner looking to expand your skills, get trained on Futures Literacy and have the opportunity to transform this concept in your work? Being futures-literate empowers the imagination. It enhances our ability to prepare, recover and invent in the face of change.

We are excited to announce a series of workshops designed just for you!
Submit your application by filling out our Typeform here.

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The Citizen Archive Platform (CAP)

The Citizen Archive Platform (CAP), an important component of the Dialog City project, was presented at the second Hybrid Festival in Graz (June 6-8, 2024). This new tool offers citizens, artists and civil society organizations the opportunity to upload, archive and permanently save their digital data. In this way, CAP helps to preserve digital treasures of memory for future generations.

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You can also visit the CAP-Website here.

Second Art for Public Residency

LONGINGS is the title of the second art residency project for the public by DIALOG CITY featuring visual artist Lenka Holíková. It bridges research and artistic production, focusing on migrant narratives closely tied to Graz City.

Developed in collaboration between the Graz Museum and individuals who have migrated to Graz due to forced displacement, the project centres around the personal stories of those who sought safety and peace in Graz after leaving their homes.

Among various significant aspects discussed by the participants are the reasons for leaving their homelands, emphasizing that “no one leaves home unless it is necessary,” moments of frustration and fear experienced, and the challenges of being far from familiar surroundings.

Through empathy and artistic interpretation, the artist internalizes these shared experiences, transforming them into visual and auditory expressions and metaphors.

Special thanks are extended to the individuals who generously shared their time and intimate stories.

Visitors are invited to witness this reflective artistic process at the Graz Museum until 1 September 2024.

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First Art for Public Residency

News From Home is an ongoing project by the artist duo Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, capturing overlooked stories from communities. The 10th edition of this project took place during a 4 week artist-residency in Mondovì, Italy.

The outcome of this research and image collection was the creation of a large-scale 6×2 metre photographic composition. This work was presented on a wall in public space during the Hybrid Festival in Mondovì from July 20 — July 22. The final composition consists of almost one thousand individual elements, inspired by the multi-layered identity of Mondovì. 

These layers present a diversity of perspectives on Mondovì and include such elements as children’s drawings, historical images, photography of daily life submitted by the community, graffiti scratched into walls around the city and spontaneous staged portraits in the streets. Through this collision of diverse layers, the work celebrates Mondovì as a place where elements of the past, modern reality and future dreams constantly overlap, inviting the audience to consider diverse narratives from both a local and global perspective.

About DIALOG CITY

DIALOG CITY aims to increase accessibility to culture through a dialogical approach by developing new practices on how to connect digital innovation to citizens’ physical participation. In doing so DIALOG CITY creates a socially inclusive, environmentally friendly, and economically sustainable urban digital environment.

Co-creation is at the core of the project encompassing a CITIZEN ARCHIVE PLATFORM for the cultural heritage sector and an innovative design thinking toolkit on FUTURE LITERACY.

Highlights

Who We Are

DIALOG CITY consists of 7 project partners that are based in small and medium-size cities in 5 European countries. It comprises city archivesmuseums and city museumsarchives, urban activists and social architects, cultural organisations and a contemporary circus art institute as well as vocational training facilities.