UNIDEE 2020 – 2022: Reflections on Embedded Arts Practice Handbook

UNIDEE Residency Programs is the educational program for art and social change founded at Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto in Biella, Northern Italy in 1999. This publication documents and reflects on the collective experiences and learning generated by the 2020 - 2022 programme investigating ‘embedded arts practices’ curated by Andy Abbott. The programme consisted of a series of residencies (in-person, remote and hybrid) and intensive labs with guest mentors including economic geographer Katherine Gibson (Australia); artist, activist and author Gregory Sholette (USA), artist Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands); professor of art Mick Wilson (Hdk-Valand Academy/ University of Gothenburg), Paul O'Neill (PUBLICS, Helsinki), community economies platform The Interdependence (artists Kathrin Böhm, Kate Rich and Bianca Elzenbaumer), researcher and curator Aria Spinelli; Decentralising Political Economies (presented by researcher/ curator Alessandra Saviotti and artist Owen Griffiths); artist, academic and curator Marlo De Lara (USA); Institute of Radical Imagination (represented by artists and academics Massimiliano Mollona, Marco Baravalle and Emanuele Braga and Gabirella Riccio), Mexico City collective Cráter Invertido; Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club (UK); Pyramid (Leeds), Sandi Hilal, (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Stockholm, Sweden), Arte Útil curators and researchers Gemma Medina Estupiñán, curator Eva Rowson (Bergen Kjøtt, University of Bergen, Norway), researchers Nadia Moreno Moya and Fernando Escobar Neira (National University of Colombia), independent researcher and curator Aria Spinelli (Rome, Italy), embedded arts organisations In-Situ (East Lancashire, UK), South Square Centre (West Yorkshire, UK), Visible Project, Jasmeen Patheja (Blank Noise), STEALTH.unlimited, Sue Ball (UK), Kerry Harker (UK), Maria Papadimitriou (GR), Keir Milburn and Gareth Brown (UK) and more.