TAD Residency 2022
Laura Pante - Marta Cuscunà - Silvia Hell

TTB, Contemporary Locus and FDE are resuming TAD Residency in 2022 with renewed determination. TAD combines the will to carry on art experimentation and research via exchange, relational and sharing processes, with offering support to artists.

TAD Residency is a project involving the call and cohabitation of theater, visual arts and dance artists. It was born in Bergamo out of the collaboration between TTB, Contemporary Locus and FDE. Goal of the residency is the unbound experimentation of trans-disciplinary practices, shared by the invited artists in Monastero del Carmine, transformed for the occasion in a large co-working space.

TAD Residency 2022: Marta Cuscunà, Silvia Hell, Laura Pante. Monastero del Carmine, Bergamo. Courtesy le artiste, Contemporary Locus, FDE, TTB. Ph. Mario Albergati 

TEATRO
Marta Cuscunà is the author and performer of visual theatre, in her research she combines activism with dramaturgy for figures. In 2009 won the Scenario Award for Ustica with È bello vivere liberi! first chapter of Female Resistances, a trilogy which includes The Deceived Simplicity and Sorry, boys. In The Song of the Fall he combines the ancestral imagery of the myth of Fanes with the principles of animatronics used to maneuver the puppets. Earthbound is a science fiction monologue for actress and mechanical creatures, inspired by Donna Haraway's latest eco-feminism essay. In 2021 she became an artist associated with the Piccolo Teatro and participated in the Rai 3 television program La Fabbrica del mondo by Marco Paolini and Telmo Pievani for which she wrote and interpreted Corvi alla fine del mondo, a six-episode miniseries dedicated to the themes of ecofeminism. From 2009 to 2019 he was part of Fies Factory, a project of Centrale Fies.
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ARTE
Silvia Hell graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Through sculpture, photography, site-specific installations, digital processes and interdisciplinary projects, Silvia Hell's work focuses on the realization of forms of tension between conventional objectivity and new models of representation of reality. The artist is interested in analyzing and processing information and public data from different fields with the aim of transmitting a spectrum of values in a single aesthetic form through the simplicity of a visual intuition. She has participated in several exhibitions, residencies and events including: 2022 Cantieri Aperti VIII, Museo Guadagnucci, Massa. 2021 Maximum load, grain silos, Livorno; En Plein Air, Kunstraum Munich. 2020 Triennale, Milan. 2019 Festival Transart19, Museion, Bolzano; FuturDome, Milan. Since 2011 she has been active in the collective Cose Cosmiche, with participation in national and international events including: 2022 Locust Projects, Miami. 2021 Art Weekend Belgrade. 2020 Senseless Residency, Arthur Cravan Foundation, Milan. 2019 Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory), Helsinki; MACRO, Rome. Won the Piero Siena Award 2022
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DANZA
Laura Pante is a dancer and researcher of theories and practices of theater. Graduated in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice, since October 2020 she is a PhD student at the same university. In 2019 she concluded a period of artistic research at APASS (Advanced Performance and Scenographic Studies) in Brussels. Her study focuses on analysis of the political relationships between thought and movement typical of the bodily techniques used by contemporary choreographers*. Her artistic research actualizes  through choreographic devices, performative, curatorial, pedagogical and writing projects in which the knowledge of the body stimulates new theoretical discourses and encourages the development of transdisciplinary practices. In these years she has been on stage as a dancer for Jerome Bel, Romeo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker, Silvia Costa, Compagnia Abbondanza Bertoni, and as a performer for visual artists for Anna Franceschini and Alexis Blake; since 2012 he has been working for photographer Dido Fontana. He studied with Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Meg Stuart, Gisèle Vienne, Xavier LeRoy, Yasmine Hugonnet, Raffaella Giordano, Leonardo DeLogu.
laurapante.com