Disonancias

DISONANCIAS will be present on monday 25 november during the conference Socially Responsible Culture and Economies: Beyond Patronage, organised by the Malaga County Council, and on thursday 27 november we will be present during the first conference on Creative Citizens organised by the Kreanta Foundation, together with the Sitges City Council.

Ania Bas, an artist who participated in the last edition of DISONANCIAS, has been invited to take part in an entrepreneurial day school organised by the University of Deusto on 18 November in San Sebastian, with the collaboration of iNNoVaNDIS and Gaze.

DISONANCIAS presents its experience during the seminar about Industries, Culture and Innovation organized by Nord-Pas de Calais Region, with the collaboration of Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts contemporains, and Ars Industrialis, on november the 12th in the French city of Lille.

YP presents on November the 6th at CCCB in Barcelona its research about Innovation in Culture: A Critical Approach to the Genealogy and Uses of the Concept, based on examples of specific projects like DISONANCIAS.

We have just published the catalogue of the 2007/08 round. You can download it here, or buy it sending us a message to info[at]disonancias.com. It includes interviews by partipating artists and companies, and texts by YP and François Deck.

Participants of the Euskadi round 2008/09 of DISONANCIAS meet the 21^st and 22^nd of october in Bilbao to launch their collaboration projects. A bingo, a museum and a theater are the venues where the first methodology seminar takes place.

On Monday October 6, at 12am, Lantegi Batuak and Amasté will present the project "I did this!" they started within DISONANCIAS, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

The journal Filter (Australia) recently published an interesting article about the setting up of Artsactive.net, an international network that establishes contact between artists and science and industry research units from all over the world, and about the challenges facing this project in the future. (p. 15-16)

If you didn't manage to get to the presentations of the results for Disonancias in June of this year, the 15 minute documentary Victor Iriarte made about the 2007/08 edition of Disonancias is available for you to watch here.

The purpose of this call for applications is to select artists to produce interventions of a temporary or ephemeral nature aimed at contributing to activate the public space. Open until September 10, 2008. Download the participation bases.

The call for artists to develop research projects with companies and organizations located in the Basque Country during the 2008/09 round is closed. The jury has selected various proposals for each host entity, and it will be the own company that will take the final decision.

Next October the selected artists will be announced. Thank you to all the artists that have applied, the level of the proposals was very high this year.

The summons of Dissonances 2008/09 have managed to attract 157 international artists. All of them have presented specific offers to collaborate with one of eight companies and Basque organizations from October, 2008 of an individual way, in case of 46 offers, and collective, in 84 cases.

The juror composed by Jorge Luis Marzo, Juan Freire, Ana Betancourt and Conxita Oliver meets these days in Donostia-San Sebastian Sebastián to select the best offers for the hosting companies of this third edition.

The wishing artists come from 22 different countries, with the participation of numerous artists from Germany, USA, France and United Kingdom.

After visiting San Sebastian (Tabakalera), Vitoria (Artium), Bilbao (EITB), Madrid (Prado MediaLab) and Barcelona (Centre d'Art Santa Mònica), Disonancias Tour comes to an end after bringing together entrepreneurs, Researchers, artists and onlookers around the projects developed during the course of Disonancias 2007/08. In all events has projected a smaller version of the documentary that Victor Iriarte performs alongside EiTB, whose original version will come next October. Tabakalera, first date of the tour, hosted the structure designed by Santiago Cirugeda and his team charged with harbouring the audience.

¿Would you like to hear at first hand the dissonances, divergences and agreements that took place between the artists and companies involved in the 2007/08 edition of DISONANCIAS? We invite you to share their experiences between June 17 and 25 (2008) in San Sebastian, Gasteiz, Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona. Check out here the projects that will be presented in each city, or download the program. Don't miss it!

Hangar organizes a workshop on June 26 and 27, 2008, gathering artistas and heads of R&D. The aim of this endeavour is to explore the problematic issues common to processes of research, development and creative innovation in both sectors and to examine the opportunities for joint work. To send applications: activitats@hangar.org.
Image: Lanzallamas de madera (detail).

YP is doing an evaluation of the actual round of DISONANCIAS. They have just published a very interesting article in which they try to define what is social creativity and its link to innovation.