Sara Cattin
1990
scattin2@gmail.com
Turin / Biella, IT
education
MA - Dutch Art Institute* (DAI), Roaming Academy, Art Praxis programme of ArtEZ University of Art, Arnhem, NL. 2017 - 2019.
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/17272/2017---2019-sara-cattin-~-keywords-cross-media-approach-rural
BFA - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL. Audio Visual department, 2009 - 2014.
Exchange Program - Bezalel Art and Design Academy, Jerusalem, LI. - Fine Arts department, 2013.
Single study curses (CFU creditsì), Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, 2021/2022:
“art didactic forms”, “educational technologies”, ”psychology fundamentals”.
main working experience
Currently - CROSS Project. Referent for the residency programmes CROSS Residence and CROSS Award. https://www.crossproject.it/en/
Sept>Oct 2021/2022 - tutoring and production in Socially Engaged Art practice and Artistic Research at Accademia UNIDEE, AIR residency at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella); International Curriculum of Fine Arts, collaboration with ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem).
2022 - “logistics and care” for study weeks of Dutch Art Institute in Centrale Fies (Dro), BACO Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna (Bergamo).
June 2022 - tutoring and production for STARTS 4 Water academy, residency Water as Infrastructure, Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), exhibition Arte al Centro (July 1st).
Oct>Nov 2021 - research assistant and reseach production for artist David Bergè (B/GR), work of research on the industrial historical context of company Bialetti (Omegna, IT).
2020/2022 - inteviews and archive for project Biella Città Arcipelago, mapping of sustainable, territorial enterprisings, Fondazione Pistoletto (BIella).
_July 2019 - Didactic tutor, documentation and logistics for UNIDEE residency module Summer Camp 2019 Climate Action, with Fernando Garcia Dory, Luigi Coppola and Brett Bloom, curated by Valerio del Baglivo, Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella).
_Sept>Dec 2018 - Archival research at Archivio Storico Olivetti (Ivrea, IT) on the work of Ettore Sottsass for professor Sven Lutticken, for the production of essay “From the Imaginist Bauhaus to Olivetti”, p.49 in Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory, ICA (Miami, USA).
_July>Oct 2018 - Cultural mediator at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna; UNIDEE residency Expanded Body 2 - Inhabiting Time, curated by Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna; Production of an interdisciplinary manual for guides in Oasi Zegna.
_Aug 2017>Jan 2018 - Assistant of production at art residency Viadellafucina16, Condominio-Museo (Turin); production of the exhibition “I ragazzi di viadellafucina”, Turin Artweek 2017.
_March>June 2017 - Assistant of production at art residency Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn, NL); manager of production for artist in residence Alanna Lawley, exhibition “What is.” (23rd of June 2017).
workshops (creator, producer, tutor)
April>May 2022/2023 - Sentieri di Partecipazione (path of participation): a program on mapping, outdoor perception and environmental politics with the Youth Municipal Councils (CCR), by Resta Qui Airlines and Dragolago, Lago d’Orta area (IT). Supported by Civic Europe (2022), PNRR Ameno (2023).
April>May 2022 - Pianta dello Scontrollo (plant of s-controll): a program on mapping, free artistic creation and inclusive politics at Sacro Monte di Orta (Orta San Giulio), with the primary school second grade of Orta San Giulio, as part of Verde Vivente (Mastronauta).
Feb 2022 > Dec 2022 - Clay workshop for kids at Scuola delle Terrecotte of Ronco Biellese (Biella).
collective projects
_2020 > ongoing - ISTERIKA ISTORIKA, open reading group on feminist/transfemminist narrative and theory; in collaboratio with Caterina Giansiracusa, Marti del Romano and Denise Cappadonia at the queer bookstore Nora Book and Coffee (Turin); collaborating with Sara Benaglia at BACO (Bergamo).
_2018 > 2020 - Collaboration with the independent organization Better Places aps and HYDRO, independent space for live music, clubbing, and culture, hosted by Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella).
_2015 > 2017 - active member of the co-working and open-to-public artistic practice space LABORATORIO ARTISTICO PIETRA (Turin).
residencies
_(expected) spring 2023 - Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao.
_July 2019 - Towards an Expanded Landscape tutored by Fernando Garcia Dory, UNIDEE Summer Camp 2019 Climate Action, with Luigi Coppola and Brett Bloom, Valerio del Baglivo at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella).
_October 2018 - Pattern Integrity, UNIDEE residency module at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), curated by Amy Franceschini and Lode Vrenken (Futurefarmers).
public presentations
_June 2022 - CROSS Festival, Voli Radicali, a performance by Resta Qui Airlines (Ameno, IT).
_Dec 2021 - Isterika Istorika at Volumes book Fair (Zurich).
_Sept 2021 - Resta Qui Airlines, installation for didactic activities at Forum di Omegna, collaboration with Dragolago and Mastronauta (Omegna, IT).
_June 2021 - Resta Qui Airlines, performance and permanent video installation opening, Verde Vivente, outdoor environmental project, with Dragolago and Mastronauta (Ameno, IT).
_June 2019 - Radio Mutiny, group project DAI Roaming Assembly #26, conveyed by iLiana Fokianaki, Cagliari.
_June 2019 - Flowingfloating nell’Oscurità, performance with DAI COOP study group Curating Positions, the Logics of Montage, DAI COOP Summit 2019, in collaboration with the school of launeddas of Villaputzu (CA), Ex-Manifatture Tabacchi (Cagliari, IT).
_June 2019 - Celluloide Traces, screening and live conversation, DAI COOP Summit, COOP Curating Positions, collaboration with Cineteca Sarda of Cagliari, curated by Sara Cattin and Vinita Gatne, Cineteca Sarda (Cagliari).
_May 2019 - Maintenance of What? Part2, performance, DAI Graduation Acts 2019, Silent Green (Berlin).
_2018 - performance Maintenance of What?, DAI Kitchen Presentation, ArtEZ (Arnhem).
_2018 - REALTY, performance, DAI COOP Summit 2018, Circuits and Currents (Athens).
_2017 - 2018, Resta Qui Airlines, performance, UFO Festival at Mastronauta (Omegna, IT).
_2016 - Loro degli Idioti, performance, exhibition Here, Cavallerizza Irreale (Turin).
_2016 - The Lost Fortunes and Fuck Karma, self curated and produced exhibition at Laboratorio Artistico Pietra (Turin).
publications
_2019 - “Staying with the Shepherd”, online article for NERO Editions, extract from MA thesis (DAI, Art Praxis) “Reconnect, and stay alive. Leaving behind the idea of domain at the passage of roaming shepherds” (August 2019).
_2019 - pamphlet “Gara Poetica Sarda, Buggerru 1913, Maria Farina di Osilo”, curated by Sara Cattin and Sara Benaglia, produced in the context of the DAI workshop Island Partisan, Anarchists, Bandits and Pirates: Local histories as a guide for politically conscious practices, presented at DAI Roaming Assembly #25: Radio Mutiny, conveyed by iLiana Fokianaki (Cagliari).
*
Dutch Art Institute (DAI) MA study programme is an intersection of art practice and theory, in the context of “roaming” throughout different places and institutions in Europe.
2017/18 - I attended: How to Do Things With Forms, theory seminar by Sven Lutticken, a study on social and political forms; COOP study group REALTY, research on gentrification processes in connection to the art system, tutors Tirdad Zolghadr, Rachel O’Reilly, Katya Sander.
2018/19: theory seminar Uncomputable, by Antonia Majaca, on cyber tecnologies and feminist studies; Factory workshop Island Partisans, Anarchists, Bandits and Pirates ~ Towards Roaming Assembly #26 , collectively curated by iLiana Fokianaki and DAI students; COOP study group Curating Positions - the Logic of Montage, collective curatorial project, tutored by Leire Vergara, Marwa Arsanios, and Leon Filter, partner Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao).