ad bestias art residency

Zuecca Projects announces the first open call for its Art Residency program at Squero Castello in Venice, Italy. Selected artists will be invited to join the Zuecca Art Residency and to develop new artworks inspired by the dystopian Eco-totalitarian novel Ad Bestias by Francesca Sarah Toich.

Theme of the Art Residency:

Ad Bestias, a novel by the Italian writer and performer Francesca Sarah Toich, is the theme of this edition of the Zuecca Art Residency. The novel is about a dystopian future in which a vegan dictatorial regime has taken control. Women are used as gestation capsules for endangered mammalian animals, as in the case of the protagonist who finds herself pregnant with a white rhino cub. The themes faced in the novel – which will be the focus of the Art Residency – are Eco-totalitarism, dystopia, metamorphosis, veganism, anatomical colonization, repopulation of endangered animal species and self-induced extinction, science fiction and weather control.

A few extracts (in Italian, English and French) from the novel can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1m3RyoxxKCzFZ6UucW7wL-ykhz5e7VrJ3

During their stay at the Zuecca Art Residency, the selected artist/s will have the opportunity to meet and interact with the author of the novel in order to develop the work. The images of the work/s produced during the residency may be included in the forthcoming editorial project dedicated to Ad Bestias.