ACROSS

Innovative short term critic and curatorial residency program.

ACROSS is a curatorial and art critic’s residency program for exploration and research, developed and run from Nice and surroundings by thankyouforcoming since 2015.

Engaged within contemporary visual arts field, this project considers art critic as a tool for collective thinking, and mobility in the cultural area as a specific way and medium for professionalization.
The program has been created for professional art critics and curators who are specifically involved in a research area related to the emergence and renewal/development of critical and curatorial practices.
ACROSS enables the guests to develop an ongoing research, to nurture an exhibition/writing project and to discover the artistic scene of a given territory.
It also guarantees the French Riviera-based contemporary artists an opportunity of high quality highlight, at a national and international level.
By creating opportunities for meetings, this program initiates and enables an environment for exchanges and discussions to foster common experiments between people and venues from various disciplinary fields, cities, regions and countries.
ACROSS also helps bring awareness to the general public on professions that are not quite identified, and offers a new access to the contemporary art world.

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ACROSS is a collaborative, participatory and experimental project which aims to:

► Introduce residents to the local artistic scenes and their territories, fostering inter-disciplinary exchanges,
► Enable the hosts to meet the cultural operators and visit the highlights of the area as well as its alternative scenes, through a close collaboration with artists, researchers, thinkers, museums, art centers, galleries, academic institutions,
► Invite to reflect on and offer innovative critical approaches to projects developed in Nice and suburb, as well as in the associated towns (Mouans-Sartoux, Antibes, Cannes, Vence, Monaco etc),
► Counter-balance the logic of centralisation and rebalance the power relations between Paris and the French provinces, centre and suburbs, local and global, national and international,
► Devise a new operational tool for research, prospection and transmission through the mobility of its actors and spreading of the contents,
► Provide a framework allowing for the mobility of curators and critics, and make it visible,
► Offer the possibility to frame a specific work or deepen a line of research, and provide assistance in research,
► Create opportunities for meetings, initiate and enable an environment for exchanges and discussions to foster common experiments in various disciplinary fields,
► Develop efficient collaborative networks between worldwide professionals and local residents, and operate as a professional exchange resource in order to support internationalization of the local art ecosystem.

Jurys’ members since 2015: Bénédicte Le Pimpec (art critic and curator) ; Paul Maheke (artist) ; Mathilde Roman (Phd in Arts and Sciences of Art, art critic (AICA France), and teacher at Pavillon Bosio – Monaco) ; Ann Guillaume (artist) ; Bruno Racine (writer, former president of Centre Pompidou and Bibliothèque nationale de France) ; Cédric Fauq (art critic and curator at Palais de Tokyo, former ACROSS resident) ; Hélène Guenin (director of MAMAC – Nice) ; Sophie Lapalu (art critic, curator, PhD in Visual Arts and Aesthetics, teacher at Clermont Métropole Fine Arts School) ; Marianne Mispelaëre (artist) ; Estelle Nabeyrat (curator and independent art critic), Sarah Tritz (artist and teacher at ENSBA – Lyon).

Since 2015, with the support and/or collaboration of: le Narcissio, le MAMAC, la librairie Vigna, DEL’ART, la Villa Arson, la galerie Eva Vautier, la galerie Le 22, la Kunsthalle3000, Colophon, MiBACT Italie / le Ministère de la Culture, la ville de Nice, la Région Sud, le Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Mécènes du Sud.