OMNIRICA. Desiring Spaces

OMNIRICA. Desiring Spaces is the invitation to the multidisciplinary open call by Casa degli Artisti in Milan for 2026, aimed at professionals and workers in the visual and performing arts, as well as related fields of contemporary creative cultures. "Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations..." - August Strindberg Casa degli Artisti's ateliers are once again becoming places of work, experimentation, research, production and interaction for artists, scholars, project managers of art and culture, and national and international producers (hereinafter referred to as 'candidates'). From January to December 2026, the studios will be made available to selected candidates from all artistic, creative and intellectual disciplines (including, but not limited to, visual arts, performing arts, sound arts, applied arts, poetry, literature, philosophy, video, cinema, publishing and design). The Casa degli Artisti building was designed specifically for this purpose and has a unique, functional and layered architectural identity. Built in 1909 for this very purpose, the building's enduring quality remains, renewing the invitation to inhabit the studios and devote time to imaginative practices and the exploration of the margins of languages, new mythical themes and symbols. Omnirica recognises the prerogative of the arts to open up to visionary perspectives and the unexplored power of an undisciplined consciousness. It encourages imagining a different urban dimension and new epics and poetics of coexistence, searching for balance. Casa degli Artisti is a place that renews the practice of 'cultural sustainability' through a desire for spaces that can produce possible alternatives. Candidates may reside in the temporary Casa degli Artisti studios for one or more phases of the creative process. Proposals for the production of works or projects in their entirety or in part, as well as theoretical or practical research at various stages of initiation or advancement, are eligible, as are workshop activities with participatory and/or educational purposes. Omnirica. Desiring Spaces invites proposals for projects that can be realised in the residence's spaces, which are located in Milan at the corner of Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga and Corso Garibaldi 89/A.