IDENSITAT #5 Call for projects


Projects for Calaf / Manresa and Shared projects: Mataró (Can Xalant) / Priorat (Priorat Centre d’Art) / El Prat de Llobregat


IDENSITAT is an arts project that investigates ways to impact upon the public sphere through creative proposals that work in relation to place and territory and their physical and social dimensions.
IDENSITAT positions itself as a networked production and research space, developed in the field of art, to experiment with new forms of involvement and interaction in social space.

ID #5. The fifth edition of the project will be developed between the end of 2008 and 2010. While in former editions a specific theme was proposed, the methodology that IDENSITAT has been rehearsing along its 10 years of life is now synthesized in the initials ID. The project, pioneered in Calaf in the year 1999, has evolved, spreading a network of collaborations throughout different locations, while seeking out methodologies for the interaction of projects of creation with social, cultural and political contexts of differentiated shades. In this way, IDENSITAT, originally a platform for the production of projects impacting upon public space, has been transformed into an itinerant production space, roaming throughout the territory with projects that promote analysis and proposals for transformation in their environment. ID refers to this transformation.


ID is Identity | Density, a synthesis that initially gave its name to the project, but which could also mean Investigate | Develop - Invent | Discover - Involve | Denounce - Interrogate | Discuss - Innovation | Decrease among other multiple combinations of terms.


ID #5 / Call for projects

ID opens an international call for projects directed to creators with proposals in the sphere of public space. The involved contexts are Calaf and Manresa. ID #5 will also stage parallel activities in Mataró (Can Xalant), Priorat (Priorat Centre d'Art), and Prat de Llobregat. (Catalonia-Spain).

The open call for projects has two categories:


Production projects

Public spaces as well as public domain are concepts for discussion and in continuous updating. ID is an open laboratory for investigating these aspects and the projects are understood to be research works in this area. Therefore, ID calls for projects that intervene in public space and seek for interaction among different social sectors; projects that outline contemporary strategies for creation, incorporating specific aspects of the context, and/or which display actions of communication in their environment. Projects are invited based on their medium or long term working processes. Others are projects that intervene in a more specific or ephemeral way while using the infrastructures, means or existing mechanisms in the territory.

The open call for production projects concerns the cities of Calaf and Manresa.

This edition in particular incorporates a project in Prat de Llobregat. The project will intervene in a specific space that the Town Hall plans to develop (For more specific information regarding each site please refer to www.idensitat.net).


Documentation-archive projects

ID also calls for projects carried out in other contexts, in progress or considered for publication, as well as theoretical works from parties interested in participating in IDENSITAT as a mechanism for diffusion and analysis of projects. This will be done through a specialized publishing work. The specific publication will take the format of a book, articulating a set of projects and theoretical essays.


Another important aspect of IDENSITAT is the display of projects which promote educational actions. This does not constitute a specific category since it will draw from the two proposed categories. It refers to projects or partial aspects of projects which may be developed in a medium-short period and rehearse forms of shared production through workshops or other dynamics based on exchange of knowledge. Preferably, these projects will be developed with local organizations and educational centres. It might be a matter of extending processes from projects under present development in other contexts, or even specific and partial activities of a project of production. From within its own organisation, IDENSITAT will encourage and develop more in-depth projects following this line.


ID #5 Economic endowment

The economic endowment for each selected project in the category PRODUCTION OF PROJECTS will depend on the specific budget of the proposals, up to a maximum amount of 11,000 €. With respect to DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS, the grant will depend on the format of presentation of the project, establishing as a reference a minimum of 400€ for publication of a project, and a maximum of 3.000 € for more complex formats, or the development of educational actions.

The final date for submission of proposals is January 9, 2009.

Information about material to be submitted along with the proposals is posted on our website, www.idensitat.net. For any further information, please contact: idensitat@idensitat.net


IDENSITAT #5 is a project by the non-profit organization Idensitat, Association of Contemporary Art. It is promoted by the Town Council of Calaf, the Town Council of Manresa, Generalitat de Catalunya, Diputacio de Barcelona and includes the participation of Can Xalant, Center of Creation and Contemporary Thought of Mataró, Priorat Centre d'Art, Town Council of Prat de LLobregat, La Capella (Institut de Cultura de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona) and Consonni.

http://www.idensitat.net