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Biennale College ASAC – Writing in Residence 2025
The new call for applications for graduates/s under 30 from all over the world in Architecture, Cinema, Dance, and Theatre. Supported by Swiss Seaside Foundation.
Writing in residence
La Biennale di Venezia announces the new call for the Biennale College ASAC – Writing in Residence 2025, being launched today, Friday 18 April, on the website www.labiennale.org.
Starting this year, the Biennale College ASAC - Writing in Residence Architecture, Theatre, Dance, Cinema and Music are open to young graduates/ under 30 from all over the world with an excellent knowledge of Italian language, spoken and written.
Sponsor of the Biennale College ASAC - Writing in Residence 2025 is Swiss Seaside Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 in Switzerland that supports projects related to children, youth, family and environment.
The calls launched today are dedicated to young graduates under 30, students in Architecture, Cinema, Dance, Music and Theatre (the call for Music will be launched later), for writing critical texts that will be collected in publications of La Biennale di Venezia. For each of the above-mentioned sectors, the artistic directors have identified a research topic related to the programs of the festivals and exhibitions, to be explored in depth in the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (ASAC) of La Biennale. The young scholars selected starting from the proposed theme carry out in Archive, guided by tutors, a search of sources and documents for the drafting of a text of up to 15 folders.
Call for applications
The calls launched today cover the following sectors and themes:
Writing on Architecture, theme Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective, tutor Luca Molinari, deadline14 May
Writing on Cinema, theme The Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica of La Biennale di Venezia 1983 – 1991, tutor Paolo Lughi, deadline 2 June
Writing on Dance, theme Myth Makers, tutor Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino, deadline 2 June
Writing on Theatre, theme Theatre is Body – Body is Poetry, tutor Katia Ippaso, deadline 14 May
Biennale College ASAC – Writing in residence, now in its 8th edition, is one of the activities of the Historical Archive of La Biennale, International Research Center on Contemporary Arts, within which research programs are developed also in connection with cultural institutions and universities as well as special projects such as, among the most recent, the new magazine La Biennale di Venezia, reborn after 54 years after its last publication and the Expositio Sancti Evangelii secundum Iohannem, Comment on the Gospel of John by Meister Eckhart, performed from 5 to 15 March.
