open call: who walks here
Amigdala is looking for three artists to take part in Who Walks Here, a 28-day residency at OvestLab, our civic centre in the Artisan Village, in the outskirts of Modena.
Who Walks Here takes place in an Artisan Village built in 1953 by craftspeople who designed their own live-work spaces. For seventy years it has been shaped by shared labour and mutual values — but it now faces decades-long deindustrialisation and increasing real estate pressure.
Who Walks Here invites three artists to explore this context through a transfeminist urban lens. The construction of public space is never neutral: shaped by patriarchal logics, it produces inequalities, leaving some bodies more visible, safe and welcome than others. Places undergoing deindustrialisation are living laboratories for these questions — how can the social fabric of a neighbourhood in transformation be reimagined through care and proximity, through artistic and relational practices, rather than top-down planning?
The residency continues an inquiry Amigdala opened with Transfemina: Intersectional Landscapes, a Creative Europe project through which the collective spent two years investigating the neighbourhood and the city from a feminist perspective.
Explore and create are the two inseparable movements of this process: the artists will conduct situated research on feminist urban practices in this specific context, and from that research — together with the communities who live and work here — a new site-specific piece will take shape.