AADK Spain

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AADK Spain is an international artistic platform that opens up spaces for research and contemporary creation. With a focus set on experimental and creative processes, its primary interest is to explore the notions of body, territory, and spatiality through an interdisciplinary approach. In this open call we will prioritise proposals focused on Territory.

The platform advocates for the decentralization of culture and the access to contemporary art in non-urban areas. It addresses local issues as a mean to understand global problems. Currently based in Centro Negra (Blanca, Murcia) AADK Spain holds several programs among which its Artistic Residencies Program stands out. Deeply rooted in its context, said program constitutes a framework for research and debate where knowledge exchange and creative collaboration are always encouraged. Besides the aforementioned, the platform also holds a wide number of activities, workshops and events that enrich the stay of the artists in residence. Furthermore, AADK Spain waves networks with other cultural and artistic enterprises in order to facilitate mobility for the artists that it hosts and foster their work at national and international circuits.

Their philosophy:

• AADK Spain is an independent project run by artists that works through horizontal dynamics.
• It advocates for the decentralization of culture and the access to contemporary art in non-urban areas.
• It sets up a space for transdisciplinary research, with focus on knowledge exchange and creative collaboration.
• It boosts the value of creative processes over the need for nished art pieces.
• It researches new artistic practices with the aim of expanding the borders of creative disciplines and exploring transversal pedagogies.
• It is an organic and absorptive platform, that can be transformed and resignified through all its participants.
• It promotes the work of the artists who have taken part in the project, understanding them as an active part of itself.

AADK Spain invites all artists and researchers who wish to work on the topics of body, territory and spatiality to participate in its Artistic Residency Program. For this call, projects that respond to the axis of Territory will be prioritized. The Program is carried out in Centro Negra, current headquarters of AADK Spain, located in the town of Blanca, Murcia. It is conceived of as a space for reflection and creative research that encourages its participants to interweave their projects with the historical, cultural and geographical context of the region.

• Public presentation of your process
• Connections with local, regional, national and international institutions
• The possibility to participate in other programs of AADK
• Dissemination of your work after artist-in-residence program

Housing facilities are divided into two areas, being these: a group of four apartments bordering Centro Negra, and an old house in the center of the town. The latter was the former Video Art Museum, EDOM. The apartments are equipped with private kitchens and toilets with shower. They have a terrace for common use and direct access to the main building.
The house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen with a living room. It is located in the heart of the village so it has excellent access to all shops and stores. It
is also ideal to get immerse in the daily life of Blanca. Both housing areas have access to washing machines and are equipped with bedding and towels.

Centro Negra is the main building of AADK Spain. It serves both as working área and exhibition space. The building is located on the slope of a mountain, being reachable only on foot. It stands at the foot of a Moorish castle of the twelfth century. At the beginning of the 20th century this area was allocated for animal husbandry. Therefore, an assembly of small poultry yards slowly developed, but fell later into disuse. In 2010 a group of these constructions were recovered and transformed into the modern and integrated building of the Center that still retains stone walls and mountain ledges.
The current building is made up of 6 different and interconnected spaces. Each of them is unique in its size and morphology, constituting a set of great versatility and capable of adapting to multiple purposes.

At CENTRO NEGRA you will find support at every level of your project from AADK. The conditions of the stay and the access to equipment and materials should be discuss with the artistic direction individually.

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