Operation Nova

OPE.N: Call for Residencies for Artists & Cultural Workers (From Croatia, Kosovo and Slovenia). Are you an artist or cultural worker, researcher or journalist interested in the relation of independent spaces and cultural communities? Do you seek to explore the conditions, challenges, relationships and impact of these spaces on their communities? If so, we invite you to apply for our 5-week residency program, designed to offer deeper insights into the world of independent cultural spaces across Croatia (Rijeka and Zagreb), Kosovo (Prizren) and Slovenia (Kranj and Maribor). Deadline: 30.09.2024.

The project Operation Nova: Re-imagining Cultural Spaces in a New European Context (OPE.N) brings together a consortium of 3 organisations from 3 countries in SE Europe (Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo) driven by strong common interest in tackling issues of lack of appropriate support for the independent cultural actors especially with regards to the public infrastructure that these organisations use to incubate, produce and mediate high quality artistic and cultural content towards large and diverse audiences in different urban communities. These organisations are particularly suitable for the task, as they are the pioneering independent cultural platforms in their countries, notable for gathering large numbers of independent cultural actors, inaugurating novel practices of empowered participatory governance of cultural infrastructure.

The most important ambition of our project is to lay a foundation for an improved transition towards a more adapted support system for independent cultural spaces and to deepen relationships of artists and cultural workers with local communities and decision makers.

By gathering a multitude of actors with the aim to foster creation of new knowledge as well as new artistic and cultural practices, we wish to instigate systemic transformation through fresh perspectives and a drive for innovation.

The partners will organise: 3 Status Quo research trips, 9 Innovation Nodes, 3 Slow Residency programmes, a survey with estimated 300+ responses, 30+ meetings with local stakeholders. These activities will result in 10+ presentations/exhibitions of artistic work, creation of Policy paper on New Models of Cultural Infrastructure, promoted by the international conference.

Participants of these activities include 12 residents, 3 status quo researchers, 6+ facilitators, number of participants from all target groups that will take part in activities is estimated at 400+ people. Likewise, the general audiences for all physical activities will exceed 1500 people with an international audience of over 150.000 via online channels.

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Asociacija, Association of Arts and Culture NGOs and Freelancers

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

OPERACIJA GRAD (leader)

Croatia (EU)
Lumbardhi Foundation (partner)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!