A-PLACE
About
A-Place.
Linking Places through Networked Artistic Practices
A-Place is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union (2019-2023), dedicated to strengthening the bonds between people and places. A programme of placemaking activities will take place over the next four years in six European cities: Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia.
Loop Barcelona created a special project for A-Place, exclusively dedicated to exploring, advancing and establishing creative placemaking practices, as well as to the exchange of knowledge about this topic.
The programme was designed along two basic lines of action that feed each other and are, therefore, mutually complementary: a production line, dedicated to the production and dissemination of video art productions and a debate line, focusing on professional meetings.
Video Productions
Loop Barcelona convenes annual a jury award, the A-Place Open Call, to finance an audiovisual production to research on the subject of placemaking in all its formal and conceptual variants. In addition, Loop Barcelona commissions each year a video production to an artist-in-residence, to explore topics related to place and placemaking. The videos are exhibited each year during the festival.
Partners
A-Place partnership includes nine organizations from six European countries: Alive Architecture (Belgium); City Space Architecture (Italy); Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); KU Leuven, Department of Architecture (Belgium); prostoRož (Slovenia); School of Architecture La Salle, Barcelona (Spain – Project Coordinator); Screen Projects (Spain); Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Nova FCSH (Portugal); Urban Gorillas (Cyprus).
Exhibitions
2020
La città dentro, Anna de Manincor & Zimmerfrei
Open Call Winner
TERRApolis, Sitesize
Artist in Residency
2021
I Can Only Dance to One Song, Arash Fayez
Beans, Rinsed Twice, Inês Neto dos Santos & Bella Riza
Open Call Winners (ex-aequo)
La Carpa, David Bestué & Roser Corella
Artist in Residency
2022
El lugar que habito [The place I inhabit], Sindihogar/Sindillar
Open Call Winner
Walden 7 or Life in the Cities, Dòmenec
Artist in Residency
2023
We Are Here, Camila Flores-Fernández
Open Call Winner
The Forest and the Machine, Pau Faus
Artist in Residency
Professional Meetings
2020
A-Place Linking Places Thorugh Networked Artistic Practices
Participants: Leandro Madrazo, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Denise Araouzou, Krisztina Szipőcs, María Solé Bravo and Asli Samadova
Moderator: Rubén Verdú
Audio Description and Audio Subtitling of Videoworks: A Place of Its Own
Participants: Anna de Manincor, Anna Matamala, Carme Guillamon, Marta Buzi and Magda Stawarska-Beavan
Moderator: Rubén Verdú
2021
A-Place : Embodying Space Through Memory
Participants: Mabel Palacín, Caterina Miralles, Enric Massip, Moisés Puente, Nancy Garín and Cecilia Bengolea
Moderator: David Bestué
A-Place: Place-making Through Body Moves
Participants: Adrian Schindler, Cecilia Bengolea and Violeta Ospina
Moderator: Arash Fayez
2022
A-Place: Audience Engagement
Participants: Ulya Soley, Luisa Bravo, Daniela Arriado, Neus Miró, Mario Gutiérrez Cru and Louise Martin Papasian
Moderator: Victoria Sacco
A-Place: What about production?
Participants: Gisel Noè, Oscar Abraham Pabón, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Laura Arensburg and Natalia Carminati
Moderator: Victoria Sacco
Open Calls
2020
1º A-PLACE Video Production
Deadline: March 30th, 2020.
Jury Members: Denise Araouzou (independent curator), Leandro Madrazo (La Salle Escola d’Arquitectura, Barcelona) and Teresa Tourvas (Urban Gorillas, Cyprus).
Announcing the winner here.
2021
2º A-PLACE Video Production
Deadline: April 15th, 2021.
Jury Members: Denise Araouzou (independent curator), Luisa Bravo (City Space Architecture, Bologna), Leandro Madrazo (La Salle Escola d’Arquitectura, Barcelona) and Ramón Parramón (IDENSITAT, Barcelona).
Announcing the winners here.
3º A-PLACE Video Production
Deadline: February 28th, 2022.
Jury Members: Leandro Madrazo (La Salle Escola d’Arquitectura, Barcelona), Ramón Parramón (IDENSITAT, Barcelona) and pli-é collective.
Announcing the winner here.
2023
4º A-PLACE Video Production
Deadline: February 28th, 2023.
Jury Members: Leandro Madrazo (La Salle Escola d’Arquitectura, Barcelona), Ramón Parramón (IDENSITAT, Barcelona) and pli-é collective.
Announcing the winner here.
Reports
2020
Three new reports have been published summarizing the work done by A-Place in 2019-2020.
2021
Four new reports have been published summarizing the work done by A-Place in 2020-2021.
2022
Four new reports have been published summarizing the work done by A-Place in 2021-2022.
