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
DIALOG CITY was presented at the re:publica 23
The project partners informed about the goals and contents of “Dialog City”
For three days (5-7 June 2023), 25,000 visitors had the opportunity to get to know many new and innovative projects at the festival for the digital society re:publica, which took place in the Arena Berlin. At such an event, the EU project “Dialog City” could not be missing.
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HYBRID FESTIVAL IN MONDOVÌ
OUR COMMON FUTURE
The first DIALOG CITY Hybrid Festival of Mondovì was organized by the Cirko Vertigo Foundation and almost 500 people were actively involved in the event that literally invaded the streets of Mondovì for three days from 20 to 22 July.
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Game Jam in Aschaffenburg and Mondoví
Imagine our Common Future
How do we imagine a future worth living in? How can our common history help us in this? How can we shape our current actions accordingly?
From July 20-22, 2023, a parallel Game Jam will take place in Aschaffenburg (Germany) and Mondoví (Italy) as part of the first hybrid festival of the European cultural project DIALOG CITY.
First Game Jam in Aschaffenburg
The first Game Jam took place in Aschaffenburg from July 20th to 22nd, 2023. This event, carried out within the EU project “Dialog City”, ran parallel to the Game Jam and the first hybrid festival of the same project in Mondovi (Italy). During these three intensive days of play, there was at times a direct online connection between the participants in Aschaffenburg and Mondovi, which primarily served the purpose of exchanging new ideas and experiences and learning from one another.
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Smart Country Convention 2023
Our “Dialog City” project was also there!
The Smart Country Convention (SCCON) in Berlin is Germany’s largest congress trade fair for the digitalization of the public sector. The focus is on the approach of not only realizing innovations as isolated solutions in a city, but also to realize them in a large scale.
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IMAGINE OUR COMMON FUTURE!
Lenka Holíková is selected for the DIALOG CITY RESIDENCY in Graz 2024
DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for the respective urban society based on participatory approach. Participating European cities are Turin and Mondoví (IT) in 2023, Graz (AT) in 2024, Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR) in 2025.
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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.