CeRCCa - Centre de Recerca i Creacio Casamarles

National Network
Spain
Address

C Mare de Deu dels Dolors 10
LLorenç del Penedes 43712
Spain

Telephone
0034 977698733
E-Mail
cercca@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
0034 667264771
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
CeRCCa a non for profit association with 1 contracted worker and a team of advisers. CeRCCa is a self funded organization and its income comes from the afordable fee artists and researchers pay in orther to be at CeRCCa as residents. CeRCCa is working hard to get funding forom local and regional authorities and facilitates to the artists and researches in residence a list of funding opportunities to fund their stay at CeRCCa. CeRCCa works as an artists in residency and organizes networking and field trips, exhibitions, public presentations as well as being part of different research projects on artists mobility and AIR programs internationally.
Mission and Objectives

CeRCCa – Centre for Research and Creativity Casamarles, is a non-profit organization that has been developing cultural and artistic projects from 2009.
CeRCCa is a centre of research and creativity located in an old house in Llorenç del Penedes. The objective of CeRCCa is to facilitate a living and working space for artists, curators and cultural researchers. With this objective CeRCCa supports interdisciplinary and collaborative strategies based on the context. Together with its residency program, CeRCCa also participates and coordinates other production and exhibition formats through the organization of workshops, public presentations and interventions that approximate artistic creation to new audiences.
The Centre functions as an interdisciplinary and collaborative AIR Program. Its main objectives are:
- To promote research, creativity and diffusion of Culture and the arts.
- To favour exchange and promotion of national and international artists and researchers.
- To organize cultural activities in order to potentiate the interaction between local cultural initiatives and international artists.
- To facilitate a web portal that will function as an archive and resource tool.
In order to achieve these objectives, our organization
- Facilitates living and working space.
- Promotes the participation of the selected artists and researchers in different local and international networks.
- Organize cultural activities such as residencies, workshops and exhibitions.
- Participate in debates, seminars and conferences in order to be part of the current debates on artistic mobility and cultural research.

Main Projects / Activities

CeRCCa’s AIR Program responds to the aim of challenging conventional formats. By conventional formats we understand the AIRs that offer a space isolated from its sociocultural context that potentiate individual artistic production of aesthetic objects. We believe that the experience of living and creating in a different context has to be facilitated through exchange and collaboration. This experience takes place both in the practices of art and research and also out side of these discourses; that is, in everyday life. With this objective CeRCCa proposes a residency format where dialogue and interaction become essential.
The characteristics of CeRCCa AIR Program are:
- Each year CeRCCa organizes 3 to 4 AIR Programs that last for approximately 2 months. For each residency 3 to 4 artists are selected. CeRCCa offers individual bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, two 40 2m shared studios, a library as well as a big living-room/kitchen area and a patio.
- In order to facilitate the mutual knowledge both from the different creative perspectives of the artists and the different realities of Llorenç del Penedes, during the first week of the residency, CeRCCa organizes work presentations by the artists and the organizers of the program.
- Depending on the necessities of each artist, the organizers bridge the gap between the artists, researchers and the different associations of the village.
- CeRCCa also facilitates a series of cultural visits to regional and national organizations as well as to different artistic production centres of Catalonia. These activities can be accompanied by guided tours and informal meetings with different cultural agents.
- The residency also promotes the participation in workshops, local festivals and events.
- At the end of each residency, CeRCCa organises a public presentation of the work that the artists and researchers have developed. These public presentations can take the format of open studios or exhibition at the local art gallery or the Cultural Centre of the village. Depending on the circumstances an exhibition can also take place in a gallery or cultural space of the region or in Barcelona.
- At the end of each residency and with the agreement of the resident artists and researchers, CeRCCa proposes a short video interview with each resident aiming to document his/her experience at CeRCCa.

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Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We believe that CeRCCa responds to the aims and objectives.

Contact (1) Full Name
Pau Cata Marles
Head of the organisation
Pau Cata Marles