Artists are individuals who tell our stories, celebrate our successes and help us learn how to live together (Steven Wolff)
PAS - Public Art Service is an invitation to share your artistic regeneration and urban requalification projects for the city of Rome to transform common spaces for the health emergency [see news: The City in Lockdown].
The invitation, which is part of Project Ro-Lab promoted in collaboration with the United Staets Embassy in Rome, addresses young men and women studying as multimedia artists, creatives, makers, craftsmen, designers, sound designers and composers, both in Italy and abroad. Works may be the result artistic research by a single author or by a project team.
The objective is to promote art as a “public service” that communicates with the city and its citizens. Installations, performances, video operas and sound art can provide new spaces for socialization, provide original interpretations of common life and new local dimensions in the context of the health, economic and social emergency that we are experiencing. All contributions must be submitted by June 10, 2020.
Participation requisites:
- Authors must be aged 18 or older;
- Performance description (10 lines of text);
- Short bio or CV
- Showreel
- Authorisation for use of images
Submitted material will be used to develop cultural and service storytelling by experts at the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The final product will be a viral video to share, contaminate and fill common spaces with culture, art and creativity.
The video will also be presented at the final event of Project “RoLAB -Rome Live Art Lab,” promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Rome. The project has involved second-degree secondary school students with international academies in co-designing and requalifying abandoned urban areas in Rome. The event will be attended by national and local institutions, companies, young men and women, academies and schools.
For further information on participation:
Fiammetta Castagnini | f.castagnini@mondodigitale.org
For further information:
- Public Art Service (please share)
- RoLAB Project Profile
- Call With Ideas
- Motivational Video by Steven A. Wolff
- Selected Projects
The image is a frame from the "Rome in Lockdown" video shot by documentary maker Gianni Vukaj (photography by Roberto Evangelista, live sound and editing by Marco Pocetta).
