Alessandra Saviotti, Owen Griffiths

Alessandra Saviotti

2021

2020

UNIDEE 2021 - Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice | Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (Italy)

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This seminar was part of UNIDEE 2021 - Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice a residency program curated by Andy Abbott at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Postoletto. The program had a specific focus on alternative structures, frameworks, ecologies, and organisational forms for socially engaged art projects, and the 'groundwork' required to build and sustain them.

During the seminar, Alessandra Saviotti and Owen Griffiths introduced the principles behind DPE.tools and how it has been used as an environment to foster conversations and actions in different places, both virtual and physical.

More information about UNIDEE residency programs are available here

Art Tools for Change is a slideshow that simulates a class presentation. Alessandra Saviotti started from analysing the ‘Arte Útil Table Set’, a mapping device commissioned as part of the Centre for Plausible Economies’ launch event in October 2018. The mapping tool was included to support a curriculum delivered at the international Master Artist Educator (ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL) in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL). It enabled students not only to map something that was already known as part of their practice, but to reveal the possible relationships of the group, in order to understand its strength to apply in the future. In addition to that, the presentation shows how different case studies included in the Arte Útil archive, could be used to write a constituency led curriculum operating at the intersection of art, education and economy.