Testing Ground (TestG)

Testing Ground aims to develop ‘reparative methods’, transdisciplinary modalities of creative explorations of potentials for social repair. Drawing from culture’s creative capacities, reparative methods overcome predetermined and already existing frameworks of reaction while avoiding a regressive return to “normality” and using the opportunity for reinventing a more inclusive and just socio-cultural ecosystem. Objectives are 1) applying inventive research methods for developing crisis response models in culture 2) stimulating experimental cultural and creative practices in response to different areas of contemporary friction and uncertainty (gender inequality, climate crisis and structural obstacles within the cultural field) 3) fostering local and international transdisciplinary collaborative practices, 4) activation of innovative knowledge transfer methodologies. Through Research, Experimental and Rhizomatic strand of activities, the project will directly include cultural and educational experts and practitioners; emerging and freelance artists, researchers and writers; students of arts, humanities, social and scientific fields; members of artistic, academic and cultural communities in the risk of discrimination; creatives with a migrant and refugee background; and members of the scientific community in an environmental context. Outputs include public talks, presentations, lectures and seminars (13), 2 Repair Shacks (creative retreats on Croatian sea coast and Polish wetlands), 2 micro-residencies, numerous artistic (performing, visual and sound arts) outputs, 4 publications, online Compendium of reparative practices and Exposium, a final conference that will include the exhibition of reparative practices. Through the development of reparative methodologies, we expect improved cultural participation of young, emerging and underrepresented creatives, raised awareness of the preservation of urban biodiversity, and new forms of knowledge produced and exchanged. [Source: FTOP.]

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

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

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

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

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

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

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)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (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)

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!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age